Hi, thank you for listening to this recording of my session today. I really appreciate your time. Uh we're going to talk about NetApp Eseries and the F-S series and why a fast, simple, reliable sand solution works well for you. My name is Mitch Blackburn. I'm a senior tech marketing engineer on the E-series team. I've been with NetApp about 10 years now and all that time has been spent uh on E-series working on various solutions. Uh I've also before coming to work for NetApp spent uh roughly 30 years in the IT industry as an Oracle DBA, SQL Server DBA and an IT manager. And as an IT manager, I spent a lot of time implementing applications uh that ran on databases, but also uh applications such as Splunk or video surveillance systems, uh things of that nature. So, I understand what your needs might be and I want to support you and I want to help you and we want to talk about that today. Um I know you can't ask me questions directly during the session. It's too bad. Uh, but if you do have questions, uh, afterward, you can reach out to me at mitch.blackburn@netapp.com. I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. Um, before I continue, I must share this confidentiality notice with you. Uh, while a lot of the material at Insight is confidential, in this presentation, I won't be sharing anything that's considered confidential. So you don't need to worry about it during what you hear during this session. Kind of setting the stage here. Um you need sand story that's fast, simple, reliable. That's clear. Uh I think especially the reliable uh portion of that. Uh you don't want to be thinking about um your storage, right? You're running a business. Youwant to be thinking about your business. So, we allow the applications your business counts on to do what they do best and keep you from worrying if your data is safe.What does that mean? Well, in this presentation, we'll walk you through some solutions such as HPC AAI, uh, enterprise databases, modern data analytics, and video surveillance to figure that out and figure out where, um, we can help you, where our storage is could be right for you when you're trying to set up your applications. The agenda is pretty straightforward. uh we want to show you why E-series and EF series work so well to enable solutions where data is managed at the application layer. Uh so I'll cover a little on why ENF series and then we'll dive down uh on some solutions that I think can uh help you uh understand better uh why Eeries. So why Eeries and EF series? EF series is fast. It has four entries in the top nine for price performance for SPC2 from the storage performance council. SPTC2 is dollars per megabyte per second or dollars per throughput if you'd like. So affordable and fast. A reference is included the end of the presentation if you'd like to check that out. for high performance computing and AI solutions that use a parallel file system to scale out and gain a lot of performance. E-series allows you to scale out simply as your needs grow and keep the CPUs and GPUs saturated so that expensive hardware is being used to the maximum. For enterprise databases, the simple block storage of E-series makes for ease of setup and configuration. For modern an data analytics, EF series provides multiple benefits for your analytics applications, including high throughput when the data is being written to disk and high IO's per second or IOPS when it is subsequently searched for analysis, simplicity to get up and running quickly, and flexibility to allow you to use one storage architecture for your needs. For 6ix9ine's reliability, we provide features such as data assurance, full disk encryption, and dynamic disc pools to give customers peace of mind and flexibility to grow so you don't lose video surveillance information when you need it for safety. Uh I recently saw a uh news art newscast let's say u about a company called zero eyes which spots guns on video surveillance in real time for inschools for safety sake. So when lives are at risk you can't have drop frames or lost video savings. All right, let's go ahead and talk about solutions.NCI or the National Computational Infrastructure in Australia has an HPC AI environment that is a 3200 node system with 130 E-series E5700 hybrid arrays and 24 EF series EF600 arrays. It's using a BGFS parallel file system and an Infiniban network. It is also deploying 670 Nvidia V100 GPUs. NCI is Australia's largest research data repository and depends on NetApp E-Series storage and EF series old flash arrays for high performance and extreme reliability to advance their scientific research. Their researchers are working in areas such as astronomy, climate research, computational chemistry, genomics, computational physics, and the social sciences. They depend on NetApp to keep all their CPUs and GPUs saturated, so scientists achieve results faster.It is the country's most integrated high performance research computing environment. a collaboration between the Australian government and lending and leading research institutions. It brings together massive data sets for each organization to maximize efficiencies and to fuel innovative scientific research.For researchers, downtime can derail research and waste untold resources. So the infrastructure must be extremely fast and highly available with data doubling every 18 to 24 months. It must be able to quickly scale to meet changing research needs. By using NetApp E-Series and EF series storage in an all flash configuration, NCI keeps the data flowing with superior data availability and fast response times. To accelerate deployment, NCI relied on anible to configure their E-series storage systems. Before the hardware had even arrived on site, NetApp's professional services had already made an Ansible playbook to deploy their E-series systems. Using this playbook, 120 arrays with 24,000 variables were configured in just over one hour, an average of 35 seconds per array. This shaved at least one week's worth of time off the deployment process and ensured consistency. And [snorts] these anible playbooks are available to all our customers. Let's go on to our next uh solution. We're going to talk about enterprise database type environment. So this e-commerce service provider shared with us recently that they're doing 1 billion transactions per month. That's 1 billion transactions per month on EF series storage. They use EF on several of their most critical assets. To give you an idea of the scope of the EF deployment, there are over 800 EF series deployed with this provider. All user transactions are stored on databases that are run on NetApp EF. From a business perspective, this service provider prides itself in providing the best possible experience to its users. The result being more money spent by the user. They strongly believe that the faster they can return results back to their users, the more likely they would continue to do business with them. And for that, they needed a fast product with the highest levels of resiliency. Other storage competitors were in this payment processor as well, but couldn't deliver the stability and level support expected to run a multi-billion dollar business. In the end, NetApp emerged as the primary vendor for flash storage in the internet service business unit. When we first introduced EF the platform to them, we competed against just about every flash vendor out there. The EF series was the most consistent performer,something that was truly valued. It kept running when the competition fell over due to stability issues and/or bugs in their code. We asked this customer senior management why they continued to buy from NetApp and the answer was a bit eyeopening. It was because we delivered on our promises of providing a fast, stable platform, something our competitors could not do. And the service and support we provide to ensure the business stays running is a high watermark used to measure our competitors.At the end of the day, they like working with NetApp because we are a known quantity. We consistently provide the best possible customer experience all around from pre-sales to post. They know that there will always be problems, but our ability to address and resolve these issues is something they have come to expect and rely upon in maintaining their business. And that goes on today with us. Iknow we're working on a couple things right now as technology improves and they look for us to improve with them and grow with them. So when they ask us for something new that they need to help their business stay competitive, we reply. Okay. For our next solution, I want to look at a data analytics solution uh with Splunk Enterprise. This is uh for a health insurance provider. they um they had a business challenge was they needed to improve their Splunk environment. They needed to improve performance. They were getting about 1,500 IO's per second. So it's IOPS and they needed or wanted I guess I should say 5,000 thatwas their requirement to get 5,000 IO's per second in their Splunk environment so that users could make use of it for analytics.The E-series solution was one E5700 for every 15 Splunk indexers. So they purchased three E5700s uh for 45 Splunk indexers. Those 15 Splunk indexers each set of 15 would generate about 1.5 terabytes of Splunk ingest. and they looked like one 5724 with 24 15.3 TBTE SSD drives for a hotwarn tier and one DE 460C with 12 TBTE nearline SAS drives for the cold tier. And if you look over on my graphic there uh on the right side uh bottomof the bottom right side, that's what it would look like. one hot warm shell with the in with the controllers in it and one cold storage. So one architecture being able to handle both the hot warm data that's then going to be analyzed and also uh the cold data. What are the benefits to them? So that this is a 30% read 70% right environment. They were getting IO's per second of 82,439 when they measured it. a 4700% increase blew away their need for 5,000 IO's per second and their throughput went up to 5,000 megabytes per second. So really got what they needed. And when we look at PCO for a solution like this isn't this is an example isn't exactly the numbers uh we would have got with them [snorts] for 96 indexers and a replication factor equal to three. That's the number of copies. The three-year total cost of ownership is approximately $3 million. With this NetApp solution, sandbased solution, the number of indexers could be reduced to 56. So a replication factor of two and their three-year total cost of ownership was slightly under $2 million. The reason for that is they are using enterprisegrade uh storage now. So they could reduce, you know, how much indexing they needed, how much storage they needed. So, for our final solution, we're going to look at the Central Ohio Transit Authority, KOD, who is expanding and upgrading its video surveillance infrastructure across municipal transit networks to keep their riders, employees, and vehicles safe. Its fleet of more than 400 vehicles provides more than 18 million passenger trips each year. Their video surveillance system is used to monitor and keep safe buses, facilities, and parking rides. Cameras mounted on light poles in the park and rides recorded directly to dedicated storage boxes attached to the light poles. The cameras were checked only in the event of an incident. In the months between incidents, cameras could go down or drives could fail, but no one would know until the next incident when they would discover that there was no video. Today, Kota is deploying a fiber network, so it's park and rides, enabling cameras to feed data in real time back to centralized e-series storage. Unlike Kota's previous white box storage solutions, NetApp's video surveillance storage solution built on Eeries gives Kota enterprisegrade reliability, virtually eliminating downtime. Built-in redundancy and NetApp dynamic dispool technology delivers greater than 59th availability. Data is mirrored between two locations for seamless recovery in the event of a disaster.As KOD continues to expand, E-series can grow with them. Let me share with you another quote from Aaron Hibbert. We built the platform so that we can continue to grow and grow. He says, "With NetApp Eseries, I can add capacity in minutes. It's purpose-built for speed, efficiency, and reliability. NetApp knows data. That's why we buy it. They have a centralized solution using six pabytes of NetApp E5760 storage with 18 terabyte drive. That's about 360 drives. They could still add another 120 drives to reach 8.6 pabytes of storage with just one E5700. One E5700 can handle about 5,000 cameras.So, KOD shows an example of where we are used for critical infrastructure such as transportation, water, electrical generation plants, and airports. We also work with law enforcement. So the police, corrections, courts and borders and in corporate America, finance, casinos, hospitality, public venues, automotive, telco, retail, and the public sector, education, hospitals, safe cities, traffic. E-series provides a foundation for centralized enterpriseass video storage. If you're trying to improve operations like KOD was, upgrade functionality like adding 4K or 8K cameras or just replacing the system. Okay, we've looked at several solutions now with E and EF series. What I hope you took from them is you're trying to run your business and not worry about the storage your data is stored on. ECE and EF series are reliable and trusted so you can focus on what is important to you. When I was in Oracle DBA and the consultants were asking me how many IOPS we needed or how much throughput my answer was always I don't know. What I do know just like NCI knows is we must keep everyone working fully. Nothing else really matters. Affordability is maintained by having a product that meets your business needs and lets the applications you rely on run the way they should. Like the e-commerce solution we looked at, features you don't need or don't use don't get in the way. E-series is flexible by allowing you to have one storage architecture for both high performance drives and capacity drives. As we saw in the Splunk solution, so you aren't spending additional time and resources on understanding a different storage system. This can be especially important when you need a system that can handle remote office or back office scenario scenarios like the video surveillance solution we looked at or when a smaller medium-sized business needs to run a CRM system on flash drives but also needs to store a backup on high-capacity spending media. Paraphrasing that earlier quote I mentioned, NetApp knows data. That's why you buy it. As I mentioned during the presentation, here are some related resources you can check out. Uh please note the one at the bottom. I mentioned the storage performance council. So if you want to check up on our performance on what I had to say, please do stay connected. Uh follow NetApp Insight on Facebook and Twitter. Also note my speaker contact info there on the bottom left. mitch.blackburn@netapp.com.If you want to reach out to me, please do. I'd be happy to hear from you. And finally, thank you for listening. I really appreciate you taking the time from your day to listen to my session. Thank you very much.