Pillar Data Systems Launches Application-Aware Storage System for Mission Critical Environments
Pillar’s Axiom 500MC™ Delivers “5-9s” Storage Availability within a Single System
San Jose, Calif. - April 7, 2008 – Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware storage systems, today announced availability of the Pillar Axiom 500MC™ (Mission Critical), a storage system designed to break the paradigm of so-called “Tier 1” storage systems. The Axiom 500MC delivers the performance, functionality, and availability of legacy “Tier 1” storage systems, but does so in a modular, cost-effective, and simplified manner.
The Axiom 500MC is designed to drastically simplify the installation, provisioning and management of storage for mission critical applications. Most competing storage vendors measure availability across a number of storage footprints, creating costly and complex management scenarios to meet availability objectives. With the Axiom 500MC, Pillar goes so far as to guarantee 99.999% availability within a single system, which can scale both performance and capacity according to the application requirements.
The Axiom 500MC includes Pillar Professional Services, which provide onsite LUN creation, provisioning, and configuration management to make system administration simple and bulletproof. When combined with Pillar’s High Availability Design and Implementation Professional Services, customers are provided an extremely simplified solution that provides the highest levels of application availability, exceptional performance, and a low total cost of ownership.
“With the Axiom 500MC, Pillar is dismantling the status quo once again. No longer does ‘Tier 1’ equate to expensive, complex, monolithic storage. We recognize many companies require their storage systems to provide the absolute highest levels of application availability and performance, but cost, complexity and lack of software redundancy very often prevent them from deploying traditional storage arrays,” said Bob Maness, vice president of worldwide marketing, Pillar Data Systems. “The Axiom 500MC alters that supposed rule. We’re bringing all of the functionality, performance, availability, and the professional services of mission critical storage at midrange storage prices.”
Companies around the world that have already deployed the Pillar Axiom 500MC to support their mission critical applications have enjoyed the following benefits:
- 99.999% uptime for mission critical applications;
- System-wide, non-disruptive data protection;
- True continuous replication of critical data to a single or dual disaster recovery site(s); and
- Centralized management and control.
“Pillar loves to break new ground and is demonstrating that again with the Axiom 500MC. It deftly marries new-era and affordable data storage requirements with the 'bullet-proof’/mission-critical demands of today's best Tier 1 data centers,” said Mark Peters, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Pillar is combining the best from two data-storage 'worlds'. They’re enabling customers to deploy a solution with the highest levels of application availability, without the cost and complexity of traditional, monolithic high-end storage systems.”
Specifications and availability:
The Pillar Axiom 500MC delivers up to 192GB of cache, with the ability to scale capacity to 1.6 petabytes. The system supports both fibre channel and SATA disk drives in multiple capacity configurations. The Pillar Axiom 500MC is available today.
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise organizations. With the highest utilization rates in the storage industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage system on the market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total cost of ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage system that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed from the ground up as the only true Application-Aware Storage system, the Pillar Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. The company is headquartered at 2840 Junction Avenue, San Jose, California 95134. The company can be reached on the Web at http://www.pillardata.com, by phone at 408-503-4000 or by email at sales@pillardata.com.
For further information, please contact:
Chris Drago
Director of Public Relations
Pillar Data Systems
cdrago@pillardata.com
408.518.4636
Don Jennings
Lois Paul & Partners
don_jennings@lpp.com
781.782.5756
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