Lucidity - IT Press Tour #62 June 2025

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1. 1 IT Press Tour Lucidity Overview Vatsal Rastogi, Co-founder Raj Dutt, VP of Marketing June 2nd, 2025 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
2. 1. Company overview 2. Automated storage optimization with Lucidity AutoScaler (GA) a. AutoScale live demo b. Key differentiators c. Customer proof points d. Ecosystem and pricing 3. Pre-briefing - Lucidity Lumen (target GA June 3rd, 2025 - under embargo) Agenda 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
3. 3 Company Overview and AutoScaler 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
4. 4 Lucidity executive summary Team: 100+ Funding: $31M Founded: 2021 Key Investors and Partners Trusted by Fortune 500 companies around the world Nitin Bhadouria Co-Founder, GTM ex-Tracxn, Fungru Vatsal Rastogi Co-Founder, Tech ex-Swiggy, Microsoft Top US Airlines Global Financial Institution 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
5. 1000+ combinations of manual decisions lead to wasted spend and potential downtime Block & object storage Cost Performance Security Compliance Uptime Disk Sizing (1GB-16TB) Data Backup Disk Tiering (6+ tiers in Cloud) Data Lifecycle Disk IOPS (3-64,000 IOPS) Data Encryption Data Redundancy Storage type (Object, block, file) +10 more 78% spend wasted 5 Downtimes 3+ FTE req. 66% spend wasted 3 Downtimes 5+ FTE req. 45% spend wasted 4 Downtimes 6+ FTE req. 66134 disks 197 applications 30414 disks 629 applications 8090 disks 650 applications Cloud storage management is complex - Real Customer Scenario Top US Airlines Global Financial Firm Top Professional Services Firm 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
6. Cloud storage management is complex. 30% slower application performance 50% to 70% wasted disk space Risk of downtime due to manual errors 100’s of FTE hours wasted in manual optimization 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
7. Shrinking requires downtime Expansion is manual & downtime prone Expansion impacts performance Why is capacity management hard? 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Capacity provisioning is a guesstimate
8. Live auto shrinking with zero manual process or downtime No expansion downtime 1 minute auto expand 2x IOPS performance gains Lucidity AutoScale: Industry’s first multi-cloud storage management 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved 75% to 80% disk utilization from day 1
9. The next frontier of cloud automation and cost optimization Works seamlessly across applications hosted in AWS, Azure, and GCP Simple, hands-free onboarding and ongoing management without any changes to the existing environment Zero downtime and no impact on the application performance NoOps experience Cloud and application agnostic Non-disruptive operations Block storage Databases Application Server disks Cloud native MySQL, Kafka and 10+ popular DBs Root volume and Data Disk Kubernetes Lucidity NoOps Disk AutoScaler Introducing Lucidity: the first multi-cloud storage management platform 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Built for enterprises
10. 10 How it works and demo 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
11. Shrink Shrink Storage metrics Scaling command Scaling command Lucidity AutoScaler VM Instance Lucidity Agent VM Instance Lucidity Agent Storage metrics • One click to install agents on all VM Instance • Needs to restart one time (45sec) Autoscaler will expand and shrink volumes automatically with zero downtime to your systems: Client Environment *Disk Utilization, IOPS, Throughput, Volume , Burst, Queue, Latency Expand Expand Azure Volume Azure Volume How does it work? 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
12. From onboarding to savings! AutoScaler - live demo 1. Onboarding and dashboard walk through 2. Deploying agents 3. Optimize storage and realize savings 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
13. 13 Customer proof points, pricing, and ecosystem 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
14. Challenge: Massive block storage over-provisioning, resulting in skyrocketing cloud spend and increased application performance risk. Solution: Deployed Lucidity AutoScaler across their Microsoft Azure managed disk Outcomes: • Reclaimed 100s of human hours by automating 7500 provisioning activities • Saved $88K/month, a 77% ROI • Gained 4x higher disk utilization (from 21% to 82%) Leading US Airlines reclaimed 100s human hours by automating disk storage provisioning Gained 100s of human hours 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
15. Challenge: Manual storage provisioning resulted in heavy investments in precious and limited human hours. Solution: Fully automated disk expansion and shrinks without any downtime. Outcomes: • Automated over 51K provisioning tasks to avoid huge FTE costs • $470K savings at a 60% cost reduction • 4x improvement in disk utilization - from 29% to 82% across One of the Big 4’s automated disk storage provisioning to streamline busy tax season Automated 51,000 tasks 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
16. Challenge: Lack of visibility into actual storage requirements led to over provisioning and growing storage costs. Solution: Deployed AutoScaler to right size disk in real time without impacting the performance. Outcomes: • Realized $1.5M savings and 46% storage cost reduction • 2x improved disk utilization across 1045 TB of data - from 41% to 80% • Automated 435K provisioning tasks Leading IT Management Company realized $1.5M in savings with AutoScaler 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Saved over $1,500,000
17. Why enterprises partner with Lucidity Key differentiators Multi-cloud support AWS I Azure I GCP Support all major environments Autonomous right-size Shrink live partition w/o downtime Seamless and non disruptive onboard to existing infra Zero downtime operations Enterprise-scale: PB of data across 100s of accounts Significant costs savings and storage utilization 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
18. *Assumption of 2% data growth Month on Month $82k pm Before Lucidity Total Estimated Savings in 5 Years* $3,503,663 Azure MD 33% utilization 1 PB storage 10000 VMs 300 TB Data Lucidity $41k pm After Lucidity $9k $32k Azure 80% utilization AutoScaler 99.99% Availability 24*7 Support Email/Call Support Pay as you use $60 Per TB Month data managed AutoScaler pricing model 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
19. Ecosystem - 100% Channel First Cloud Partners Channel Partners 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Cloud Partners
20. 20 CONFIDENTIAL IT Press Tour Lumen Pre-Brief Vatsal Rastogi, Co-founder Raj Dutt, VP of Marketing June 2nd, 2025 Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
21. 1000+ combinations of manual decisions lead to wasted spend and potential downtime Block & object storage Cost Performance Security Governance Uptime Disk Sizing (1GB-16TB) Data Backup Disk Tiering (6+ tiers in Cloud) Data Lifecycle Disk IOPS (3-64,000 IOPS) Data Encryption Data Redundancy Storage type (Object, block, file) +10 more Cloud storage management is complex CONFIDENTIAL AutoScaler Lumen Lumen 78% spend wasted 5 Downtimes 3+ FTE req. 66% spend wasted 3 Downtimes 5+ FTE req. 45% spend wasted 4 Downtimes 6+ FTE req. 66134 disks 197 applications 30414 disks 629 applications 8090 disks 650 applications Big 4 accounting firm Fortune 500 FinServ Major airline Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
22. 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Manual decisions on tiering lead to unnecessary premium tiers, higher costs, and downtime The business impacts of disk tiering are often overlooked CONFIDENTIAL 25+% of spend on disk tiering is wasted 50% of disks are on the wrong tier Enterprises can save 25% or more by converting to the right tier for their needs Downtime costs average $9000 per minute1 Performance bottlenecks from too low a tier cause downtime 1 Pingdom Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
23. Visibility is limited • Disk metrics are scattered among different portals • CSP dashboards lack a consolidated view Converting tiers requires downtime • Changing tiers requires taking the VM offline and rebooting • Manual, multi-step process for each disk • Most companies don’t do it for lack of ROI Performance needs are unpredictable • Disk IOPS and throughput requirements can vary for seasonality or other spikes • Predicting application performance needs is a guessing game CONFIDENTIAL Why it’s difficult to set your disks on the right tier Premium_LRS Day 1 Devs spin up a disk on premium tier Day 90 Does this disk actually need a premium tier? What has it consumed over the past 90 days? What performance needs will it have? IOPS? Throughput? Latency? Premium_LRS Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved
24. Introducing Lucidity Lumen. Disk Tiering Simplified. Unified visibility Data-driven recommendations One-click action 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved Optimize performance and avoid downtime Reduce wasted spend Improve operational efficiency Business outcomes Key capabilities Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
25. Unified visibility The primary dashboard provides the high-level overview • Real-time visibility into tiering efficiency • In-depth savings analysis • Tiering insights based on performance & cost analysis • Recommendations and history of tiering changes 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved 25 CONFIDENTIAL Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
26. Data-driven recommendations See disk tiering recommendations from Lucidity’s intelligent analysis in one place • Tiering recommendations are based on historical usage data • Get the ability to export recommendations for in-depth analysis 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved 26 CONFIDENTIAL Clicking into a recommendation shows a multidimensional performance & cost analysis • Compare analyses of performance & cost improvements across tiering options • See historical disk performance with detailed time-series charts for IOPS & Throughput utilization Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
27. One-click action Change disk tiers with one click and no downtime • Optimize storage tiers with a single click • Trigger both up-tiering and down-tiering operations • Seamlessly optimize all Lucidity-managed disks 2025 Lucidity, Inc. All rights reserved 27 CONFIDENTIAL Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
28. Why should our partners care? Lumen helps our channel partners be stickier with customers. By expanding the coverage that Lucidity serves, our partners can drive multiple angles of value and solve multiple pains Lumen is a new product that partners can bundle with AutoScaler to increase ACV and deal size Lumen offers expansion and upsell opportunities for existing customers Makes them stickier Improve ACV Increased wallet share Pre-briefing under embargo until June 3rd, 6:00 AM PT
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