Where Data Defines Value.™

Data Defined Storage:

The Path to the Cloud

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Tarmin. Where Data Defines Value.

• Founded in 2007

• Corporate Headquarters: Boston, London

• Pioneer of Data Defined Storage

• Solution: GridBank Data Management Platform

About Tarmin

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Data Factors of Change

Profit $

Data 2X in 2 years

Scale-out GRID PP

CAPX

OPEX

TCO

2006 2012

$

2018

Price / TB

2009

800k petabytes

2020

40 zettabytes

Complexity

Responsibility

Big Data Initiatives

Analytics

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Customer Priorities

• No vendor lock in

• Flexible infrastructure choices

Reduce CAPEX

• Constrain accelerating data growth

• Reduce data storage & management cost

Reduce OPEX

• Drive new revenue streams

• Gain competitive advantage

Leverage Analytics

• Simple, agile cloud migration model

• Transparent, non-disruptive transition

Path to the Cloud

Unmet Need

Reduce

CAPEX

Reduce

OPEX

Path to the Cloud

Leverage

Analytics

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Path to the Cloud

• Non-disruptive transition to the cloud

• Application aware solution for 3rd platform

• Application integrations & certifications

Transparent Transition

• Reduced total cost of ownership

• Enhanced business agility

• Information & data mobility with BYOD

• Business transformation opportunities

Platform 3 Benefits

• Platform 1 to 2 expensive & costly process

• Required costly recoding & migration effort

• Client/Server sometimes layered on top of legacy solutions to avoid pain

Platform 1 to 2 Transition

Innovative Industry Solutions

1st Platform

2nd Platform

3rd Platform

Mainframe Terminal

LAN/Internet Client/Server

Cloud

Social Mobility

AnalyticsEmerging

Platform

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Tarmin GridBank Offering

• Flexible Infrastructure Choices Evading Hardware Lock-In & Reducing CAPEX

• Media Independent Enterprise Object Storage for Multiple Petabyte Scalability

• Modular Architecture Enables Flexible Utility Pricing Model

GridBank File System

• Secure & Compliant End-to-End Data Protection with Logical Client Separation in Multi-Tenancy

• Deduplication & Compression Restraining Internal Client Data Growth

• Comprehensive Policy-Driven Unstructured Data Management Functionality Delivered as-a-Service

GridBank Data Management

• Distributed Metadata Repository for All Unstructured Data Sources

• File Property, Full Text Content & Custom Metadata Embedded into Infrastructure

• Enterprise Data Search & Discovery across 550+ Unstructured File Types

GridBank MetaBase

• Deployed On-Premise or in the Private/Public/Hybrid Cloud

• Integration with Exchange, SharePoint, Social Streams, IM, Hadoop & Cloud Protocols

• Supports Cloud Transformation for All CIFS/NFS Compatible Applications

• Enabling Application Integration Platform through Extensible API

Path to The Cloud

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GridBank Solution

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Enterprise Object Storage

SAN NAS JBOD TapeCloud

IM/Social Sync & Share HadoopFile Exchange SharePoint 3rd Party

HTTPWebDAVFTP REST SOAP OtherCIFS NFS HDFS S3 Cloud

GridBank File System (GBFS)

Global Namespace

Multi-Tenancy

GridBank Policy Engine

Multi-Site

Replication

Data

Retention

Data

Encryption

Data

Replication

Data

Integrity

Data

Security

Data

SecurityGridBank MetaBase

GridBank Search & Discovery GridBank Query

Storage Optimization

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Deployment Diagram

Mobile Device

Outlook Clients

Windows/Linux

ClientsCIFS/NFS

GridBank Web

Access

GridBank Virtualized Storage Pools: Site 2

Tape CloudSAN / NAS / JBOD

GridBank Virtualized Storage Pools: Site 1

Tape CloudSAN / NAS / JBOD

GridBank Data Management: Site 1

GridBank

Communication

Infrastructure

GridBank Data Management: Site 2

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Communication

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ServersSharePoint

Server

File Servers

(Linux)

Cloud/LAN/WAN

IP Network

File Servers

(Windows)

Social Media /

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MSP Objectives

• Deliver Automated, Scalable Solutions to Meet SLAs

• Reduce Service Delivery TCO via Operational Efficiencies

Reliability, Availability, Serviceability

• Broaden Services Offerings for Incremental Customer Value

• Improve Customer Retention for Long Term Return

Enhance Services Offerings

• Provide Global Data Accessibility across All End User Devices

• Enable Business Insights through Information Infrastructure

Improve Customer Business Agility

• Simplify Path to the Cloud for Customer Acquisition

• Provide Enabling Platform for Solution Integration

Enable Business Transformation

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Customers on Data Defined

Storage

"The rapid growth of our company, is generating more and more data, much of it in isolated pools. [GridBank] will allow us to organize, store and protect our G&G data and create a platform for improving business efficiency while reducing TCO.”

• David Edwards, Group Head of Information Systems, Premier Oil, Plc.

“[We] have determined that data centricity is instrumental to our success in meeting [compliance] expectations… [GridBank] provides a robust solution that… consolidates our storage and facilitates heightened operation of research.”

• Richard Christie, Assistant Director for Research, IT Services at QMUL

“We are very impressed with GridBank and see it as an important part of our strategy for ensuring customers achieve unmatched value from their relationship with brightsolid.”

• Richard Higgs, Managing Director, brightsolid Online Technology

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Summary

• With GridBank, Tarmin is Pioneering Data Defined Storage

• Tarmin Addresses Unmet Need in Storage & Data Management

• Data Centric Approach to Growing Data Challenges

Data Defined Storage

• Consolidates Data across Silos with a Massively Scalable Model for Reduced TCO & Enhanced Operational Efficiencies

• Automates Data Policies to Protect Information & Enforce Regulatory Compliance for Reduced Business Risk

• Monetizes Data with a Data Centric Approach for Improved Business Agility, Revenue Growth & Competitive Advantage

• Provides a Transparent & Non-Disruptive Path to the Cloud

GridBank Data Management Platform

• Tarmin Delivers Game Changing Differentiation with Data Defined Storage

• Raises Discussion from Cost/TB to Strategic Value from Data

• Delivers Higher Margin Solution Opportunities & Path to the Cloud

Tarmin Partnership

Where Data Defines Value.™

Thank You!

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