2. StorSimple: Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage Leader
• Certified for Windows Server 2008 R2
• First and Only Cloud Integrated Storage Appliance on the list
• Certified for VMware
• First and Only Cloud Integrated Storage Appliance on the list
• Storage Magazine - Product of the Year 2011
• Gold Award – Storage Systems
• VMWorld 2011 – Best of Show Finalist Award
• Only Cloud Storage Solution on the list
• Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011
• For Enabling Rapid Customer Deployment and Success with Azure
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2010
• The First & Only Gartner Cool Vendor on Cloud Storage
• Others
• Best Cloud Company 2011 – The Execulence Award
• Grand Prize for Best of Show – Interop Japan 2011
• Most Promising Cloud Solution at the UP Cloud Computing Conference
• Best Storage Hardware Award from SQL Server Magazine 2011
3. StorSimple Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage
Connects Windows & VMware Servers to Cloud Storage in
minutes with no application modification
Applications in Virtual Servers
F: StorSimple iSCSI
Cloud Datastore
Benefits
• One appliance that consolidates primary storage,
archive, backup, DR through seamless integration
with the cloud
• Cloud Snapshots that enable revolutionary speed,
simplicity & reliability for backup, recovery.
• Reduce enterprise storage TCO by 60-80%
Cloud Storage Services
4. StorSimple Focus Applications and Workloads
Capacity
CapEx, OpEx Traditional
Storage
User data grows exponentially
(50-60% annually)
CapEx, OpEx
StorSimple
However, most I/O happens to the
“Working Set” data
Time
Archives Shared Drives SharePoint Email Content Virtual
• Media • Collaboration Management Machines
• File Servers • Content & • Exchange
• Engineering •
• NAS Records DAG Replica & Documentum • VM Sprawl
• Logs, Records •
• CIFS Management Archive Livelink • Regional
• EMR / PACS • Opentext
• NFS • Business Folders Office Storage
• Legal •
Intelligence • Email Archives Filenet • VM Archives
• Construction
5. Next Generation Simplified Storage
One appliance that consolidates all storage functions integrated into cloud storage
Virtualized Virtualized
Applications Applications
Storage Today Cloud Storage +
Cloud Integrated SAN Storage
Primary Storage StorSimple
Automated CaaT (Cloud-as-a-Tier)
Archival Storage
Disk Based Backup Thin, Reduced Snapshots
Storage
Cloud Snapshots
Tape Infrastructure &
Management
Recover in Cloud or in any Data
Replicated Storage for Center
Disaster Recovery
Use Cloud as Secondary Data
Offsite Locations Center
Geo-Resilience
$$$$$ $
6. BMC Software IT Background
• Founded in 1980, 8th largest independent software
company with over $2.0 billion revenue
• Leader in Business Service Management software
• 6000 employees, operating in more than 30 countries
with 38 offices in the US
• BMC IT delivers a total of 21 distinct business services
• IT manages 18,878 virtual servers (primarily VMware)
and 1 petabyte of on-prem storage
7. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Creates a Highly
Automated, Dynamic, and Self-Service Virtual
Environment
• Self-service implies rapid creation and
teardown of virtual images
• Images are not always in use, but often
needed on-demand
8. BMC Software
Addressing VMware Storage Sprawl
BMC CLM
Challenges
• VM “sprawl” – managing 13,000+ VM images
• Highly automated environment managed by BMC’s
Cloud Lifecycle Management solution
• Most VM images are not active, but needed to be
available immediately if required
• Backup window not large enough to backup all VM
Images
• Shortage of power and cooling capacity
• Cost of the storage infrastructure
Solution
• Using VMware Storage DRS with storage pools
• Existing NetApp storage for high performance /
high utilization VMs
• Cloud-as-a-Tier for VMs using StorSimple Taking Storage vMotion to the
• Off-load the data-center and defer the need for a new Cloud
data-center build out More details at www.storsimple.com/customers/bmc
9. BMC Software
Improving VMware Storage at Remote Offices
• Already implemented StorSimple in “BMC realized a 5X savings, in
data-center for VMware Sprawl capital expenses, over a
• Leveraging that – installed StorSimple conventional SAN
appliance in remote offices
– Provided primary storage, archive, backup and We got the ability to restore
disaster recovery at a fraction of the cost data from off-site backups in
• Used cloud snapshots to have data minutes instead of 5 days”
available at DR sites in minutes
Gus Chavira,
• Ideal solution for remote sales offices Virtualization Architect
– All storage functions in one BMC Software
appliance with DR in the cloud
– Simple remote office management
11. BMC Software Benefits Summary
• BMC is focused on delivering Business Service
Management to our customers
• Internal IT capabilities are critical to our credibility
customers
– Build and manage highly complex, dynamic cloud environments
• Required a storage/backup solution that minimized cost
while meeting SLAs driven by our internal cloud
• StorSimple’s solution allowed us to support our business
goals with cloud while reducing cost – a true win/win
More details at www.storsimple.com/customers/bmc