The Leader in Unified All-Flash Storage. All-Flash Arrays for Enterprise and Cloud September 2013

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1 The Leader in Unified All-Flash Storage All-Flash Arrays for Enterprise and Cloud September 2013

2 2 All-flash represents the future of enterprise primary storage Consistent ultra-low latency to improve performance and increase scalability up to 50x Dramatic power and space savings to cut OpEx up to 10:1 and maximize data center investments Superior reliability to improve service levels and uptime to > % All-flash is now affordable

3 Customer Use Cases 3 Databases/ OLTP Virtualization/ VDI Cloud Computing Scientific / Analytics Reduce IO latency Improve VM density Cut power and space Multiply throughput Increase total IOps Eliminate boot storms Reduce OpEx by 90% Reduce job times Increase revenue Scale VM performance Enhance storage SLA s Cut time-to-market

4 4 Leader in all-flash arrays Nearly 500 customer installations 72% of revenue from repeat customers 1.4 Petabytes of our flash storage at a top 3 web company Company operations Profitable, on-track for IPO in 2014 Backed by ex-ibm, HP, and Oracle team 400% + year-over-year growth Global support presence

5 5 Accolades #1 ranking by Gartner in unified all-flash arrays amongst startups* #2 ranking by Gartner in SAN-attached all-flash arrays amongst startups* #1 ranking by IT Brand Pulse in unified all-flash arrays amongst all vendors Storage Magazine Two-time Storage Product of the Year InfoTech Research Trend Setter: Flash Enterprise Storage TechCrunch Finalist, Best Bootstrapped Company Flash Memory Summit Best Enterprise Implementation of Flash CRN Top 10 Cool Storage Startups Tech Awards Circle Two-time Product of the Year * Market Share Analysis: SSD Component and SSD-Based Appliances, Worldwide, 2012, Published June 2013

6 Performance (IOps / Node) May Power/density figures exclude deduplication. Based on MLC-based offerings. 6 Nimbus Data 12 GBps, > 1M IOps, < 10 W per TB, 24 TB/U Vendor E ~ 0.3 M IOps, ~ 100 W per TB Vendor P 1.5 GBps, 0.15 M IOps, 120 W per TB, 1 TB/U Vendor V 2 GBps, 0.5 M IOps, 56 W per TB, 11 TB/U Vendor W Vendor S 1.9 GBps, 0.25 M IOps, 17 W per TB, 6 TB/U 1.5 GBps, 0.25 M IOps, 60 W per TB, 6 TB/U Efficiency (W/TB, TB/U)

7 Scalability May Scalability figures exclude deduplication. Based on MLC-based offerings. 7 Nimbus Data Up to 1 PB per system Unified block and file Vendor S Up to 600 TB iscsi block only Vendor E Up to 56 TB FC block only Vendor P Up to 11 TB FC and iscsi block only Vendor W Up to 360 TB Block only Vendor V Up to 32 TB FC and iscsi block only Software Intelligence

8 The Hardware 8

9 9 Gemini All-Flash Array Up to 48 TB raw in 2U No single-point-of-failure Unified SAN and NAS Ethernet, FC, or Infiniband Up to 2 million IOps As low as 50 µsec latency Up to 12 GBps throughput Ultra-efficient at < 10 W per TB 10 year endurance with 1x nm MLC

10 10 Mission-critical High Availability Hot-swap redundant controllers and power supplies Integrated lights-out management and drive sparing with fast resync > % uptime: non-disruptive SW updates and capacity expansion Rear view of Gemini all-flash array

11 11 Versatile Multiprotocol Support Programmable ports no costly fork-lift upgrades Unified SAN and NAS with unmatched throughput and latency QSFP+ (8 x QSFP+ ports) Infiniband: FDR / QDR / DDR (56 / 40 / 20 Gb) Ethernet: 40 / 10 / 1 GbE SFP+ version (8 x SFP+ ports) Fibre Channel: 16 / 8 / 4 / 2 Gb Ethernet: 10 / 1 GbE SFP+ and QSFP+ connectivity

12 12 Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD) Purpose-built for enterprise, not rebranded consumer SSDs Industry-leading capacity density and endurance 24 EFD s per system, front hot-swappable for easy replacement Enables a 10:1 rack and power reduction Sustained performance Powerful ASIC offloads flash management No write cliff In-flight data protection Nimbus EFD

13 13 Superior 1X nm MLC flash economics Intelligent DSP adapts electrical signals as flash ages, minimizing wear Always-aligned write operations, even with RAID, maximize endurance Analyzes flash health at a cell-level and adapts wear-leveling accordingly With data reduction in VM use cases, as low as $0.78 / usable GB Nimbus Gemini All-Flash $0.78 / usable GB - or - Hybrids $2-3 / usable GB

14 14 Ultimate Storage Performance Dynamic write management reforms random IO into sequential IO 1 Million write IOps (4x gain) and 2 Million read IOps (2x gain) < 50 µsec (0.05 ms) latency (2x improvement) All in a 2U package with active-active redundancy Nimbus Gemini All-Flash 1 2 million IOps - or - Others K IOps

15 CONFIDENTIAL: Under embargo until August 12, 2013 at 6AM PST 15 Gemini F400 For SAN/NAS use cases 8 x 16 Gb FC /10 GbE From 3 TB to 48 TB (in 2U) Starts under $60,000 Gemini F600 For ultra-performance use cases 8 x 56 Gb FDR IB / 40 GbE + RDMA From 3 TB to 48 TB (in 2U) Starts under $80,000

16 The Technology 16

17 17 Patent-pending Parallel Memory Architecture (PMA) Non-blocking switch-like architecture with zero oversubscription All flash drives run at line-rate simultaneously Deliver bandwidth 6x greater than off-the-shelf hardware Traditional storage hardware pales in comparison Hub-like model, where limited bandwidth is arbitrated/shared by all drives Oversubscription prevents line-rate performance across all drive slots Multiple IO elements in datapath, increasing latency and contention Acceptable for HDD arrays (HDD s are slow) but awful for all-flash arrays

18 Parallel Memory Architecture (PMA) 18

19 19 Patent-pending Distributed Cache Architecture (DCA) DRAM write cache is located in flash drives, not the system controllers Write cache scales-out with flash capacity, increasing performance System controllers are stateless; cache coherency risk is eliminated Superior to controller-resident mirrored write cache In conventional approaches, controller-to-controller mirroring is needed Adds overhead and coherency challenges At flash memory speeds, mirroring adds latency, reducing performance Cache size is fixed, so cache hit rates decrease as storage is added

20 Distributed Cache Architecture (DCA) 20 Architecture IO arrives at EFD s ASIC where wear-leveling/ecc are applied Writes committed to DRAM, then pushed to flash memory Built-in capacitors ensure full data protection View of Nimbus EFD internals

21 21 Flash Lifecycle Management (FLM) Vertically-integrated design, optimized from file system to flash silicon Flash characterization further optimizes endurance by individual cells System-wide MLC flash management, not just drive-level IO s are page-aligned and evenly distributed across all flash Unmatched endurance and reliability Available 10 year warranty Supports up to 1.2 PB of data writes per week* Fuel gauge and alerts give insight to flash usage and service needs * Based on 48 TB Gemini

22 The Software 22

23 23 HALO software Industry s most full-featured software for flash storage arrays Unified block and file Flash-optimized PB-scale file system Powerful monitoring and reporting features No license fees 10 minute setup

24 24 Ease of Management Powerful CLI HALO Web GUI HALO Mobile GUI REST API Application Integration VMware: vstorage VAAI, auto-ssd detection Oracle: DirectNFS, ASM, GoldenGate, Data Guard Microsoft: Hyper-V, SQL, Exchange, VSS provider Citrix: XenServer/XenDesktop HCL

25 25 Analytics Over 200 metrics tracked Historical and real-time statistics User-customizable dashboard Utilization and efficiency Storage IO and throughput Port-level statistics Host-level statistics Session-level statistics Screenshot of HALO Web

26 26 Reporting Fine-grain analysis Unlimited scrollback, only restricted by system capacity Mouse-over for exact values at timestamps Industry-standard RRD database format Directly readable by 3 rd -party charting tools Screenshot of HALO Web

27 27 REST API Full access to all statistics via API Full administration via REST Enable customers to integrate Nimbus management directly into existing tools Simplify multi-vendor storage management Screenshot of HALO Web

28 28 HALO Mobile Enterprise storage monitoring easier and faster than ever Make IT managers lives less stressful Available now for ios and Android Free to all Nimbus customers SSL encrypted for maximum security Monitoring of system events Graphical utilization and performance charts Developed leveraging the Nimbus API Screenshot of HALO Mobile

29 The Competition 29

30 30 Vs. EMC XtremIO EMC requires 7 nodes to match one Gemini in capacity/performance EMC requires 15x more rackspace EMC requires 20x more power Needs 46 power cables (versus 2 power cables for Nimbus) Needs 41 network cables (versus 4 network cables) EMC has 18x higher OpEx (power and space costs) No NFS and no compression XtremIO has 6x higher latency (300 µsec vs. 50 µsec) Very high purchase price

31 31 Vs. NetApp EF540 NetApp requires 4 systems to match one Gemini in performance NetApp requires 2 systems to match one Gemini in raw capacity No deduplication No compression NetApp has 5x higher latency (250 µsec vs. 50 µsec) No NAS No 40 GbE No 16 Gb FC No 56 Gb Infiniband

32 32 Vs. IBM FlashSystem IBM requires 2 x RamSan 820 systems to match one Gemini in capacity IBM requires 3 x RamSan 820 s to match one Gemini in performance No NFS nor snapshots No deduplication and compression Higher latency than Gemini F600 (125 µsec vs. 50 µsec) Single point of failure Slower FC and IB interconnects Performance is reduced by 90% during rebuilds Complex replacements with top-loading flash DIMMs

33 33 Vs. Startup V Startup V requires 2 systems to match one Gemini in capacity Startup V requires 3 systems to match one Gemini in performance Startup V systems have 10x higher latency (500 µsec vs. 50 µsec) No deduplication and compression No NAS No snapshots 7x higher power draw per TB (2000 W for 32 TB vs. 400 W for 48 TB) 5x higher total OpEx per TB (power and rack space) Complex replacements with top-loading flash DIMMs

34 * Based on $200/mo per U in 42U 20 kw private rack or $125/mo per U in 10 kw rack, surveyed across two USA colocation providers - Nov Nimbus vs. V : How to Achieve 1 Petabyte of Flash All-SSD vendor V 96 U of rackspace 55,236 W of power 188,234 BTU cooling $230,400 OpEx/yr* - or - Nimbus Data 42 U of rackspace 7,350 W of power 25,079 BTU cooling $63,000 OpEx/yr*

35 35 Vs. Startup P Startup P requires 3 systems to match one Gemini in capacity Startup P requires 4 systems to match one Gemini in performance No NFS No Infiniband No 16 Gb FC Startup P has up to 20x higher latency (1000 µsec vs. 50 µsec) Requires 9x more rack space Consumes 11x more electricity Startup P has 10x higher recurring OpEx (power + space costs)

36 * Based on $200/mo per U in 42U 20 kw private rack or $125/mo per U in 10 kw rack, surveyed across two USA colocation providers - Nov Nimbus vs. P : How to Achieve 48 TB of Flash All-SSD vendor P 38 U of rackspace 6,500 W of power 22,191 BTU cooling $57,000 OpEx/yr* - or - Nimbus Data 2 U of rackspace 350 W of power 1,195 BTU cooling $3,000 OpEx/yr*

37 The Customers 37

38 Customer Support Plans 38 Bronze Silver Gold Technical Support 9am 5pm PST weekdays (excluding holidays) 24 x 7 x x 7 x 365 Parts Replacement Next business day Next business day Same day, 4 hours Onsite Service None (per incident available) None (per incident available) Included Hardware Warranty Included Included Included Software Updates Included Included Included

39 39 Oracle Finance Alternative to Oracle Exadata Direct bake-off against two other flash vendors Nimbus won on performance, density, OpEx 1.4 Petabytes deployed in just 6 months Direct connection from Linux via Major hyperscale customer

40 40 Oracle Databases Replaced NetApp top-of-the-line filers Leverage Oracle DirectNFS client Nimbus delivers 3-5x performance advantage 10 GbE with NFS for DB s larger than 5 Very large global news service

41 41 Oracle Acceleration Increased Oracle transactions per second by 10x Reduced rackspace needs by 75% Replaced 150 spindle high-end FC 15K array Less than $50,000 investment

42 42 Healthcare Business Intelligence Average disk latency down 100x Cascaded data update transaction time reduced 50x from 10 seconds to 0.2 seconds Complex query duration reduced 15x Index rebuild times down 30x from hours to minutes

43 43 SAP Acceleration Improved SQL processing from 4 hours to 1 hour Cut backups by 83% from 2 hours to 20 minutes Improved user experience Reduced rackspace needs by Multinational power systems manufacturer

44 44 Private Cloud Reduced provisioning time from 40 to 3 minutes Cut power usage 78% Reduced rackspace needs by 65% Comparable acquisition cost to 15K RPM disk

45 45 Virtual Desktops Virtual desktops for liberal arts department Previously attempted with 15K rpm disk array Decreased boot times by 82% Achieved less than $60 per VDI storage cost

46 46 HD Image Acquisition Satellite image acquisition for intelligence Requires 6 GBps throughput per system Over 20 Nimbus all-flash systems deployed Mission-critical installation: % uptime

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