DriveScale
DriveScale Company
Software Defined Infrastructure
Overview Presentation
for Hadoop and Big Data
April 24, 2017
Executive Summary: DriveScale
 DriveScale is Software Defined Infrastructure for Hadoop and Big Data
– E.g. Spark, Cassandra, NO SQL, and other webscale apps
– enables the most efficient & agile infrastructure for Private & Hybrid Clouds
 Economical– Save up to 60% vs DAS, Centralized NAS/SAN, or Public
Cloud. DriveScale brings HyperScale Hadoop Architecture to Enterprise
 Efficient – Get more compute and storage from your HW investment. Up
to 3x improvement by pooling resources across clusters
 Easy – Uses same servers & drives; No changes to SW stack; Managed
by Cloudera Director and HWX Cloudbreak; Improved performance vs
alternatives – maintains data locality
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DriveScale Corporate Facts
Software Defined Infrastructure for Hadoop and Big Data
 Founded 2013, Sunnyvale, CA
 Founders: Satya Nishtala and Tom Lyon, Architects of Sun Workgroup
Servers and Desktop, Cisco UCS and inventor of IP Switching
 Pelion Venture Partners, Foxconn, Nautilus Venture Partners
 Product Launched on May 19, 2016
Executive Team
F O U N D E R S
Gene Banman, CEO
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CEO: ClearPower, Zero
Motorcycles,
NetContinuum
VP/GM Desktops, Sun
Micro
President of Sun Japan
Satya Nishtala, CTO
• Fellow, System Architect:
Nuova (Cisco UCS)
• DE, Lead architect: Sun -
UltraSPARC workstations
and work-group servers,
Storage
Howard Doherty, VP Sales
• VP Sales: Arkeia Software (WD),
Symphoniq, NetContinuum
• Sales Mgr: Netscape, Cisco
F O U N D E R S
Tom Lyon, Chief Scientist
• Founder: Nuova (Cisco UCS),
• Founder: Ipsilon (Nokia)
• Emp #8: Sun Micro – SunOS,
SPARC, SunScreen
Duane Northcutt, VP Eng.
• CTO: Technicolor, Trident, Silicon
Image
• VP Tech Kealia;
• DE and inventor of SunRay, Sun
Micro
• PhD CS, CMU
S.K. Vinod, VP Product Management
• Co-founder: Xsigo Systems
• Sun Micro, Product Management
• Xerox PARC, imaging system startup venture
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Advisors
Amr Awadallah
Scott McNealy
James Gosling
Founder/CTO
Cloudera
Founder – CEO
Sun Microsystems
Creator of Java
Ameet Patel
CTO
JP Morgan,
Morgan Labs
Phil Roussey
Co Founder and
Former EVP
Bell Micro
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About DriveScale
Over the last 15 years, a new computing approach has emerged inside Internet scale companies
such as Google and Facebook to handle more information and data than ever before. DriveScale
is in the business of productizing this modern computing architecture, called Software Defined
Infrastructure (SDI), and delivering to ALL enterprises.
DriveScale SDI is disrupter to traditional ways of deploying compute and storage infrastructure by
disaggregating and composing compute and storage through software, enabling a modern
architecture that breaks through workload limitations without compromise. Our unique SDI
solution is complementary to your current datacenter infrastructure and delivers efficiency and
an easy experience in a cost effective manner. You no longer need to move to a costly public
Cloud environment to enjoy efficiency and scale. We build on your IT investments to deliver
lower costs, and higher efficiency and flexibility without compromising security, performance or
reliability in a private cloud environment. Our solution is enterprise-ready today, and was built by
renowned enterprise technologists from Sun, Cisco and HPE.