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Scalable Cluster Platform for Mass Storage Markets

Scalable Cluster Platform for Mass Storage Markets. TeraCentral Corporation 2001 Confidential Not to be distributed. The People. Management Team

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Scalable Cluster Platform for Mass Storage Markets

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  1. Scalable Cluster Platformfor Mass Storage Markets TeraCentral Corporation 2001 Confidential Not to be distributed TeraCentral Confidential

  2. The People Management Team • Boon-Lock Yeo, Ph.D., President & FounderSenior VP Tech / Eng & Co-Founder EXP.com; R&D Labs Intel & IBM; Expert in Video Technology; 8 patents (25+ pending); 8 years experience • Kai Li, Ph.D., Chief Scientist & FounderProfessor Princeton University; ACM Fellow; Authority in Scalable Server Systems; 19 years experience • Rob Hutter, VP Corporate Development & Co-FounderEarly-stageventure investing (Stata Ventures/Fundamental; Revolution), consulting & business development, 5 years Director and Select Business Advisors • Howard Lee, former Senior VP, Apple; VP Sun Microsystems, Server Product • Damon Schechter, Founding Product Manager, Cobalt Networks • Pieter Noordam, General Manager, Internet & Personal TV, Philips (TIVO) Engineering/Technology • Robert Liu, Director of Product & Co-Founder • Engineering/R&D team: 10 engineers incl. consulting engineers • 1 Ph.D’s, 2 Ph.D. candidates, 6 MS with experience, and 1 BS • expertise in MPEG, distributed sys, security, internet technology TeraCentral Confidential

  3. The Problem • Traditional storage systems are designed for database systems / file servers • Expensive • Management is designed for small files • Not scalable in bandwidth and compute power TeraCentral Confidential

  4. The Answer: Cluster Storage • ClusTera™: a scalable, self-reconfigurable, modular cluster storage management platform • Supports range of write-once/read-mostly applications in verticals with mass storage demands • Enable the use of industry-standard components for new massive storage markets • Focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) benefit TeraCentral Confidential

  5. The ClusTera™ Platform ClusTera™ Cluster Storage Platform Distributed Directory Service Adaptive Self-Managing Storage Component TeraCentral Confidential

  6. Vtera™ appliance 1 Vtera™ appliance 2 Vtera™ appliance 3 High Speed Switch ClusTera™: Enables Plug-and-Extend™ Etc. Server N+2 /mnt/vtera http://10.0.0.1/ Server N+1 10.0.0.1 User N High Speed Switch Features: - Cluster storage aggregation - Single Interface - Data redundancy - Directory Service - Load Balancing - Caching - Self-managing TeraCentral Confidential

  7. Media Content Distribution Digital MediaServices Rich Media Applications ClusTeraTM Cluster Storage Management Voice Archival Backup The Big Picture:Multiple Markets, Multiple Apps Strategy: Develop vertical storage applications to accelerate penetration in selected markets TeraCentral Confidential

  8. System Offerings 2U Half-width Chassis: 7 disks, ½ Terabyte • Tera storage appliances • Each appliance with large storage capacity and pre-configured services • Multimedia • Data archival • Off-the-shelf parts • ClusTera™ architecture with Integrated Directory Services • Vtera™ series • ½ to 1 Terabyte capacity • Stand-alone and rack-mount • Launch H2 2001 4U Chassis: 16 Hot swappable disks, 1.2 Terabyte TeraCentral Confidential

  9. Comparisons * Dell does not sell storage units beyond 1/2T and the units do not scale. TeraCentral Confidential

  10. Interactive Video Technologies Online Services Media Services Qualcomm Digital Liberty Media Convera Customers (as of 1/2001) Vertical: Rich Media Voice Archival & Backup Stage: requirement gathering paying alpha beta systems request TeraCentral Confidential

  11. Accomplishments To-Date • Technology / Product: • Prototype ClusTera™ architecture, Visual Explorer • Alpha systems/software (1T Appliance, Visual Explorer, Cluster Storage Aggregation, Multimedia s/w components) • Patents: • Filed 3 provisional patents on (1) cluster storage aggregation & overall architecture (2) multimedia-aware file transmission (3) Low-power, reliable online archival architecture • Identified at least 5 more patent opportunities • Delivered alpha products to one paying customer in Internet video content syndication space • Collected product requirements from major customers in different market categories TeraCentral Confidential

  12. Financials • Preliminary P&L Numbers (Year 1 to 5) • based on current set of assumptions • Estimates • Achieve profitability by end of 3rd year • Funding requested • product development, beta, production and marketing TeraCentral Confidential

  13. Plans and Milestones Beta systems: customers want them now; expected by Q2 ‘01 TeraCentral Confidential

  14. Part II TeraCentral Confidential

  15. The Opportunity “The world will need to store and manage more than 10,000 petabytes of digitized information by 2005 - 50 times the amount being managed today…” “We believe the storage market may be twice as large as the server market by [2005]…” EMC “Tape automation market will be $5 Billion in 2003” (IDC ’99) “By 2005, the average user may have over 1 terabyte of personal media on the Net” -NYTimes, 1/2001 TeraCentral Confidential

  16. Targeted High-Volume Storage Verticals Rich Media Voice Archival Backup Core technology built for one or more verticals ClusTera™: The First Generation TeraCentral Confidential

  17. Rich Media Storage Universe • Professional Media Archival • Personal Media Archival • EMC: 1 terabyte per person by 2005 • Video on Demand • Bandwidth Costs vs. Storage Localization (Headend PVCR) • Emerging Infrastructures Post Production Industry • Content Delivery Networks • Post Production Industry (petabytes) • Digital Media Services Industry • Digital Cinema • Broadcasting • HDTV • Broadcast Services • Just .005 (0.5%) = 33% total storage capacity @ 100x Size TeraCentral Confidential

  18. Archival Storage Universe • Tape automation market ~$5 Billion in 2003 (IDC ’99) • Large data size & write once / read few • Multiple segments within same vertical: • Media archival • online archive of high quality video • high quality photo storage (infrequent read) • Medical and scientific images (3D and multi-D data) • Internet web pages and log files • Engineering work (e.g., engineering designs & documents) • Digitized information (e.g., bills, insurance records, checks, etc.) • Telecom storage: Voice mail • Backup market TeraCentral Confidential

  19. Enhanced App Services: e.g. backup, scalable delivery… Third party value-add S/W e.g. Streaming server Additional High Level Applications Management Transcoding Security Content Protection Browse Browse Search Search … … InterchangeableApp-Specific Technology E.g., Core Multimedia Technology Multimedia Access Layer Data Access Layer Technology Stack ClusTera™ Platform Self-Managed Scalable “Plug-and-Extend” Storage Technology Self-Managed Storage Self-Managed Storage Self-Managed Storage TeraCentral Confidential

  20. … … … Directory Service N Streams 2N Streams 3N Streams D.S. and Cache Synchronization Self Cluster Management Auto Failure Detection High Speed Switch ClusTera™ Architecture Scalable Computing and Bandwidth Media / Data Servers … High Speed Switch Vtera™ Storage Appliances TeraCentral Confidential

  21. Technology Roadmap • Self-managed scalable storage w/ secure, distributed directory service • Inter-cluster distribution and replication • Global caching • Self-managed scalable storage w/ Plug-and-Sync™ directory services • Dynamic intra-cluster caching • Self-managed scalable storage w/ directory services (ClusTera™) • Intra-cluster distribution / replication • Intra-cluster load balancing Cluster Storage 2001 2002 2003 + TeraCentral Confidential

  22. Part III TeraCentral Confidential

  23. Rich Media Requirements • Huge File Sizes = Massive Capacities • Fast Sequential I/O • Write Once / Read Many applications • Select Multimedia Services • Transcoding • Compression, Encryption • Image Searching • Bandwidth-Efficient Replication Processing • Need: Low cost, scaleable, manageable, & incremental storage TeraCentral Confidential

  24. Transcoding Content Protection Browse Search … Core Multimedia Technology Multimedia Access Layer Rich Media Storage Solution Media Content Distribution Digital MediaServices Rich Media Applications ClusTeraTM Cluster Storage Management Voice Archival Backup TeraCentral Confidential

  25. Browse App Runs on Storage Browse: Example Storage Application in tC Suite 1. Multi-level browsing2. Automatic video content processing3. Fast processing on many formats 4. Transcoding • Supports • ASF • AVI • Quicktime • Real • MPEG-1, 2, 4 TeraCentral Confidential

  26. Archival - Warm Backup Solution • ClusTera™ storage platform • Single mount point into a sea of storage • Simple to manage • Low-power control • Mostly in standby or power-off mode • A fixed number of units run at a time • Patent-pending system • Replication for reliability • Each file is replicated on-the-fly in two or more units • Move data for reliability • Check data and rotate disks weekly • Lower cost than tapes while maintain the convenience and reliability of disk storage TeraCentral Confidential

  27. Standby or off Archive Backup Copy Power Control:All-Standby-Except 4 . . . 110V power Power Control Ethernet Network Network Hub Plug-and-ExtendTM withPower Control TeraCentral Confidential

  28. Archival: Tape vs. Vtera™ Storage TeraCentral Confidential

  29. Summary • Low-cost, scalable cluster storage solutions for existing and emerging mass storage markets • Use industry-standard components • Self-configurable appliances • A platform for rich-media, voice, archival and backup markets • Disruptive technology TeraCentral Confidential

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