Faster and Easier with Built-in Data Protection Ryan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager

1. 12/13/13 Faster and Easier with Built-in Data ProtectionRyan Troy – NorthEast System Engineering Manager

2. What We Do: Nimble Fact Sheet • #1 Build the world’s most efficient storage • #2 Make it the most simple storage to use • #3 Give customers the most upgrade options • #4 Simplify Backup and DR • #5 Provide the best support in the industry • Founded in January 2008 • Headquartered in San Jose, California (Silicon Valley) • Operations in US, Canada, Europe, and PacRim • Successful IPO Dec’13, NYSE: (Up From $21 to $40+) 2

3. We developed a Filesystem called CASL that allows us to write to disk faster than flash We can sustain 50,000 4k IOPS with 12 disks We include all features bundled with the Array Snapshot, Replication, Compression, many more… Our install takes less than 1 hour Our storage is very simple to use Built-in data retention and offsite rotation Simple way to replace or augment backup “Keep 500 hourly copies locally and 100 remotely” Low cost expansion options Add a disk shelf for capacity Add Flash for more read performance Add CPU for more write performance through a low-cost controller upgrade Scale-out our arrays with true storage clustering How is Nimble Different? 3

4. Application-Tuned Block Sizes Match the volume block size to the application block size Benefit: Better performance and Better snapshots Compress & Consolidate Small Blocks With LZ Compression we achieve 2:1 compression Benefit : 50% less IO to disk Benefit: Reduces storage footprint by 50% Package 4K-32K writes into 512K writes to disk Benefit: 100 times less operations to disk Sequential Write Anywhere Layout Large sequential write stripes Benefit: Eliminates random writes to disk No RAID Penalty No IO penalty for RAID6 No Modify-Write RAID penalty Offload 98% of read workload from disk to Flash Virtually 50% of the disk workload eliminated Disk is primarily only used to write sequential stripes Benefit: Disk no longer the bottleneck CASL: First Filesystem to Optimize Disk & Flash 4

5. The Best Investment in the Industry SCALE CACHE, COMPUTE Flexible. Non-disruptive. Cost-effective. + FLASH AND CPU SCALE OUT PERFORMANCE + NODES SCALE CAPACITY CAPACITY + DISK 5

6. A new approach to performance and scale Mature Nimble Incumbents 1x Scale Performance (IOPS) Add Spindles Add CPU 3x Compression Speeds Slows 20x Response Time 5-20 ms <1 ms Early Mature Mature Scaling Storage scale to fit limited Data Protection Sell More Built-In Designing a storage file system from the ground up has many advantages 6

7. Gain Peace of Mind and More SECURE REMOTE SUPPORT PUSH-BUTTON DEPLOYMENT PROACTIVE WELLNESS • All-inclusive features • Built-in application profiles eliminate manual tuning • Extensive integration with hypervisors and applications • Non-disruptive software upgrades • 5-minute heartbeats and detailed daily telemetry ensure arrays are in top condition • Real-time analysis of entire environment with automated case creation before failure occurs • US Based Support • All Tier3 and VMware trained • Secure tunnel enables fast and easy triage and problem resolution 7

8. Select New York Based Clients

9. InfoSight Engine: Data Collection • Comprehensive telemetry • Log files, sensors, status • 5-minute heartbeats >30M sensor values per array per day