DATA S H E E T

InfiniVerse®
Focus on Outcomes,Simplify Technology
InfiniVerse is an enterprise, platform-native storagearchitecture designed to deliver comprehensive
data services. This unique platform provides
outstanding IT operating model outcomes andsupport for diverse modern workloads acrosson-premises and cloud environments. Infinidat’s
cyber resilient infrastructure, consumptionbased performance, guaranteed 100% availability,and guaranteed cyber security SLAs align withenterprise IT and business priorities. Whether you
consume storage as a CapEx purchase or an OpEx
subscription, it is important that you get the same
benefits, insights, and SLAs.
Currently, InfiniVerse provides a secure, cloudbased platform driven by our portfolio ofmonitoring and management tools, the basis forour ease of use and management. By saving valuable time on many critical management tasks such as capacity
planning, performance analysis, capacity management, and identifying performance concerns outside thestorage system, InfiniVerse reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and frees up IT teams to focus on business
innovation, not day-to-day operations.
In a recent third-party report on the business value of InfiniBox, Infinidat reduced customers’ OpEx by 48%.1
InfiniVerse simplifies IT operations by minimizing the hybrid complexity of physically distributed infrastructure
across multiple domains. You can achieve hybrid cloud storage ownership through a cloud-like user experienceand usage-based payment model.

InfiniVerse Platform Architecture
InfiniVerse leverages a powerful set of telemetry data from our existing set of management, control, anddata services layers that seamlessly integrate into a platform. This reduces storage administration costs
through increased automation and orchestration. Each layer provides features and functionality that are thenrepresented in InfiniVerse:

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Cyber Resilience Services
InfiniSafe Core

Consumption Services
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InfiniSafe Cyber Detection

Capacity on Demand (COD)InfiniSafe AutomatedCyber Protection

CapEx Purchase

Lifecycle Management

Data Services

Manage & Monitor Services

Mobius Controller Upgrade

InfuzeOS

InfiniOps

Partial Populated CapacityUpgrade• Neural Cache• Replication• InfiniRAID• AIOps/DevOps• DevSecOps• Ecosystem Partners

InfuzeOS Cloud Edition

Management UIInfiniMetrics
Power Monitor

Cyber Resilience Services
The InfuzeOS software-defined storage (SDS) platform provides advanced cyber storage capabilities todeliver cyber resilience services. We use a secure-by-design approach with our current InfiniSafe® core
cyber stack along with optional InfiniSafe Cyber Detection capabilities to scan data for ransomware.
Our InfiniSafe Cyber Detection option extends cyber prevention by validating the integrity of yourimmutable snapshots using powerful, ML-based scanning engines. Comprehensive machine learning
detects ransomware and malware attacks with up to 99.5% accuracy so you can quickly and easilyidentify your data’s last known good copy for rapid, intelligent recovery.
Our approach aligns well with NIST SP 800-209 (2020) Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure,
which examines current data storage security threats and provides detailed security recommendations
and guidance to address them. Infinidat provides tools, solutions, features, or methods to assist anenterprise with successfully implementing a secure storage infrastructure for 98% of the applicable
NIST guidelines.
Additionally, InfiniSafe
Automated Cyber Protection
lets you proactively coordinate
the detection of abnormal
file activity with your syslog,
SIEM, or SOAR applications toorchestrate automatic eventbased, immutable snapshots,
file scanning, and ransomware
detection. This ensures that
the InfiniVerse platform can be
an active, automated defense
mechanism for safeguarding
critical data at the speed ofcompute.

InfiniSafe Cyber Stack

Logical Air-Gapping
Immutable Snapshots
Fenced Forensic Environment
Near Instantaneous Recovery

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Consumption Services
Today, storage is the most critical part of your IT infrastructure, andas you make strategic decisions, it is sometimes difficult to align yourbusiness storage consumption needs with your budget. InfiniVerse
Consumption Services are designed to be easy to use and help
make Infinidat easy to do business with. Our white-glove service andsupport engage you with our expert pre-sales technical teams andcorporate solution architects to map out what is required to manage
your workloads. The optimal consumption method for your business isdetermined based on those requirements.
We have designed InfiniVerse Consumption Services to cover the ways
businesses consume storage across three basic models.

Create a NIST-compliant
Secure StorageInfrastructure

We don’t rely on immutable
snapshots alone. Instead, wehave incorporated numerous
advanced features that alignFLX
Our consumption-based, pay-as-you-grow STaaS solution
is for customers who want cloud-like operations andeconomics for their on-prem or hybrid, multi-domain
estate. Infinidat will ensure that your storage consumption
meets your SLAs or will provide the necessary upgrades tosupport your required business outcomes.
Capacity on Demand (COD)
Customers can own and control the hardware with theflexibility to pay for the baseline capacity they need today
and purchase additional capacity over time.
CapEx
Traditional ownership where storage hardware is purchasedfor on-premises deployment.

Lifecycle Management Services
Customers want the ability to future-proof their investment in storage
infrastructure over an extended period of time. This provides you withpeace of mind that your hardware will always stay current with technology
advancements and also provides a longer lifecycle for your asset.
InfiniVerse Mobius
With InfiniBox G4, traditional CapEx storage ownership is modernized witha subscription for hardware and software upgrades to keep your investment
modern and cutting-edge. We ensure that your InfiniBox G4 will always havethe best available controller and performance over its lifetime. Modernize
your storage infrastructure on an ongoing basis without disruption.

with the National Institute ofStandards and Technology(NIST) SP 800-209 (2020)
Security Guidelines for
Storage Infrastructure.
InfiniVerse Cyber Resilience
Services fulfill approximately
98% of the NIST storage
infrastructure security
guidelines, and we willcontinue to enhance thisimportant service offering.

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Data Services
Our software-defined data services layer, InfuzeOS,
allows for the control of all infrastructure components
through software—a very powerful capability!
This model abstracts and removes the hardware
components and dependence on hardware suppliersto the point where enterprise data services can bedelivered anywhere within the hybrid infrastructure
environment.
InfuzeOS provides a unified data platform thatprovides block connectivity over numerous protocols(FC, NVMe-oF, iSCSI) and tightly integrated highspeed file protocols such as NFS and SMB. This
enables you to choose your workload environment
without concern about file vs. block capabilities.
InfuzeOS utilizes our innovative Neural Cache
to optimize data placement dynamically andpredictively. It places the most active data—hot data—in DRAM cache to minimize the retrieval of datafrom SSDs or HDDs. This ensures ongoing optimized performance, best-in-class latency, and capable
operational support for diverse modern workloads across on-premises and cloud environments, including
SLAs aligned with IT and business priorities.
Enterprise-class data services are key to providing and extending modern data protection in allorganizations. Starting with InfiniRAID®, data is intelligently optimized and protected. InfiniSnap® provides
non-locking, efficient, redirect-on-write snapshots that support data protection and increase the utilizationof information resources. Immutable snapshots are key for immutable data stores and cyber resilience andare leveraged by InfiniSafe, our award-winning storage cyber resilience stack.
Local, metro, and long-distance data replication is built-in, providing active/active, synchronous, andasynchronous topologies with async updates in as little as every four seconds. Infinidat’s Active/Active
Data Mobility (AADM) capabilities facilitate flawless, non-disruptive data migration, eliminating the pain oftraditional migrations.
Most enterprises now require the ability to operate in a hybrid cloud environment. The InfiniVerse platformnative storage architecture also seamlessly integrates into and operates both on-premises and in thecloud. Today’s modern storage platform needs to be able to deliver both standardized data services anddata workflows between core and public cloud. Our InfuzeOS on-premises SDS is extended to the cloudwith InfuzeOS Cloud Edition (in AWS and Azure) to provide a seamless extension from on-premises tocustomers’ multidomain storage estate in the multi-cloud.

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Manage and Monitor Services
InfiniVerse enables users to monitor, manage, control, and automate infrastructure components acrossthe hybrid, multidomain estate. The InfiniVerse platform provides a consolidated AIOps environment forcustomers’ full Infinidat estate by delivering predictive analytics, early issue detection, and enhanced,
proactive support—a key component that enables an enterprise-grade STaaS experience.
This AI-enabled operation uses telemetry-based AI/ML insights and analytics to simplify IT operations
management and support SLA commitments. In a recent IDC survey, users reported 51% more efficientstorage management productivity by streamlining and automating IT operations.1 Productivity improvements
made by autonomous storage and the use of AI to operationalize storage environments simplify and containmanagement costs, reduce carbon footprint, and help address the IT skills gap.
API-driven infrastructure refers to an approach in which management and control of infrastructurecomponents are orchestrated through application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables automation,
programmability, and streamlined integration of infrastructure components, creating agile managementof IT resources. We follow an “API first” strategy across our platform, which ensures that all our interfaces
use the same APIs and CLIs that are available to our entire customer base. This strategy greatly extends
our reach beyond our own products to other ISV ecosystems and partners that are important and criticalto our customers. The result is a broad range of specialized software offerings including instrumentation,
monitoring, management, and virtualization DevOps tools provided by the likes of ServiceNow, BMC, andBroadcom, that easily integrate Infinidat storage into their solutions.

InfiniVerse provides
insights and analytics tosimplify IT operations

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InfiniOps is a collection of extensive software capabilities that exploit world-class AIOps functionality andexpedite DevOps activities. By leveraging the unique operational visibility of InfiniVerse, IT teams havestreamlined storage oversight and management to high levels of simplicity. Additionally, InfiniOps offers
a wide variety of tools to streamline IT operations, accelerate solution deployment, and reduce internalsolution development risks, all in a proven set of IT tools that are available to further integrate InfiniBox
capabilities into IT operations for standard and container application deployment environments.
In addition to providing safe, consistent power to the core storage and preventing data loss in a powerrelated failure, Power Monitor also helps with power consumption planning and usage. Historically,
InfiniBox systems require up to 66% less power and cooling than other enterprise-class storage
competitors, resulting in reduced OpEx costs and a smaller carbon footprint.
Finally, InfiniVerse leverages local real-time telemetry data from the customer’s entire Infinidat estate.
This enables cloud-based predictive analytics, support, monitoring, analysis of power data in real-time,and other extensive reporting capabilities.
The InfiniVerse enterprise platform-native storage architecture is a comprehensive set of data services
that address key business priorities and is aligned with simplifying IT operating models to reducecomplexity and focus on outcomes. We will continue to drive functionality and capabilities in all theseareas for our customers.
Contact your Infinidat representative or channel partner for more information.

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IDC White Paper, Sponsored by Infinidat, The Business Value of Infinidat Storage, Doc. #US49976922, February 2023

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