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Nutanix: bringing compute and storage together

Mohit Aron, Co-founder & CTO

0#NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY It is faster to fetch data from across the network than locally

Famous quote from 1990s0#NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARYA single SSD can deliver more than 10 Gbps

Simple RAID configurations can deliver phenomenal bandwidths

End result: network speeds now lag behind disk speedsEither use non-commodity expensive networkingOr migrate storage closer to applications

Change in hardware trends

0#NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARYAppliance consisting of cluster of high-end commodity nodesDistributed, incrementally scalable

Storage lives inside the same nodes that run applicationsNo need for centralized storage (SAN or NAS)

Virtualization provides separationApplications and storage software run inside VMs

The Nutanix solution

0#NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY

Triggering Consolidation 2.0Converging Application Servers and Storage ServersIts not storage rather a virtualization appliance Think server-attached FusionIO+Seagate storage delivering a true NetApp experience for local VMsNutanix Virtualization Appliance The New Virtualized Datacenter Building Block0#NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARYEnterprise-grade DataManagementFault-tolerancePrimary DeduplicationAutomated Storage TieringWriteable SnapshotsDisaster RecoveryBackups

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