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Expedio. Next Generation Super File Server Appliance. Mission. Establish leadership in the high-performance storage application server market by introducing “Super File Server Appliance” for high-end data centers. Team. CEO, Rajat Roy Founder/VP Product Dev., CopperCom, AMD, Siemens

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  1. Expedio Next Generation Super File Server Appliance eXpedio Systems Confidential

  2. Mission Establish leadership in the high-performance storage application server market by introducing “Super File Server Appliance” for high-end data centers. Expedio Confidential

  3. Team CEO, Rajat Roy • Founder/VP Product Dev., CopperCom, AMD, Siemens CS, Sukesh Patel, Ph.D. - CTO Ahsoon, Hotsafe, Manage, Xerox (PARC/FXPAL), Lockheed COO, Bal Singh • VP Operations CopperCom, IBM, AT&T VP Software/Engineering, K K Rao • VP Storage IBM Director Technology-Hardware, V Parisi • System Architect Cisco, Founder Monterey Networks, AMD Sr. Director Strategic Marketing/ BD, John Karendi • Dir Strategic Mktg. Server-I/O Systems HP Expedio Confidential

  4. Need for Super Storage Application Server • Companies willing to spend more for larger servers [Forrester] • Server spending driven by consolidation [$90B 2003;IDC] • Rapid market growth - NAS CAGR 133%; Appliance CAGR 73% [SRC] Expedio Confidential

  5. Goal Build a super file server that provides an order of magnitude performance and scalability improvement over the state-of-the-art File servers • Lower total cost of operations • Manage fewer servers • Lower management cost and complexity • Support incremental scalability • Improve service quality • Provide QoS guarantees • Provide carrier-class reliability Expedio Confidential

  6. SSA Features / Benefits • Unprecedented system scalability and throughput performance • Carrier class reliability for supporting SLAs • Centralized multi-customer management with lower TCO for provisioning • Customer specific Performance, Fault, and Address isolation • Hot pluggable, incremental scalability • Support for multiple LAN/WAN/Storage interfaces • Support for Greenfield and Legacy customers Expedio Confidential

  7. Target Customers • Data centers that require demanding performance (capacity, throughput, reliability) from incrementally scaleable centralized storage initiatives • Enterprise data centers for the Financial services industry (E-Trade, Merryl Lynch, Goldman Sachs), Oil/Gas exploration, etc. • Storage service providers • Intranet data centers of medium/large enterprises Expedio Confidential

  8. Why File Servers • Ubiquitous abstraction familiar to users and application developers • Commonly used functionality - needed by web-servers, application-servers, database servers, client’s, etc. • Standardized protocols allow adoption of new servers without changes to client/application code Expedio Confidential

  9. Deployment Today Internet/Intranet Load Balancer Load Balancer FS SAN WS WS FS + VM LAN FS AS SAN FC AS FS + VM FS DBS DBS FS + VM Expedio Confidential

  10. Problems with today’s deployment • Server attached storage difficult to manage • Detrimental to storage consolidation initiatives • Operational cost too high • Server attached centralization software is inefficient • 30% overhead (FS + VM) for each server • Difficult to upgrade Expedio Confidential

  11. FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS FS Future Deployment Internet/Intranet WAN Load Balancer Load Balancer LAN WS WS Networked Storage AS AS FC/IP DBS DBS Expedio Confidential

  12. Difficulties scaling GPC File Servers • GPC based file servers are difficult to scale (I.e., performance and capacity) • Processor is on the data path • Memory/bus bandwidth contention • Sequential processing of operations • No specialized resources to accelerate data/control path • New thinking is required to resolve the file server bottleneck Expedio Confidential

  13. Technical Approach Strategic: Do to GPC file servers what Cisco did to GPC routers • Eliminate File system bottlenecks with specialized hardware and software resources Tactical: • Break file server operations into primitives • Distribute primitives over a switched interconnect • Configure/deploy primitives dynamically (n-tiered) to provide functionality • Pipelined/Parallel execution of primitives Expedio Confidential

  14. System & Management Control Module Non-Blocking Switching Core Network Service Module File Sys. Service Module Storage Service Module The NGFS Logical Architecture • Uses a switched networking core • Eliminates the storage bandwidth limitations of conventional servers • Separates data and control paths • Increases scalability • Increases throughput • Reduces latency • Acceleration used in both the data and control paths • protocol stack processing on network service modules • directory operations (e.g. filename search) on the file system service modules Expedio Confidential

  15. Advantages of Distributing Primitives Interconnect Interconnect A A A A A A B B B B B B C C C C C C Next Request Waits Next Request Starts Immediately Expedio Confidential

  16. Competitive Analysis Expedio System Granularity Synchronization/Message Overhead Expedio Confidential

  17. Competitive Analysis (Continued) Expedio Performance File System Capacity Expedio Confidential

  18. Product Roadmap Phase 3 : Multiple Distributed Release Beta FCS Phase 2 : Shared File Server Release Beta FCS Phase 1 : Single Server Release Alpha Demo Beta FCS Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Expedio Confidential

  19. Summary • Storage Explosion • Storage demand doubling every year • Move to storage consolidation • Build Super Storage Application Server • Eliminate inefficiencies like Cisco did for GP routers • Based on innovative next-generation architecture • Team is ready to execute • Stellar track record of high-technology accomplishments • Executes with blazing speed and competency Expedio Confidential

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