Pillar Data Systems Receives Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award
Pillar Data Systems announced recently that the Axiom 600 has received Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award for storage hardware. Network Products Guide, a leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related research and analysis, annually recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
"Innovation is clearly an important factor to greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network Products Guide. "Pillar's innovation is its Application-Aware technology that sets it apart from competing products and was the key to wining this award category."
The Axiom system dynamically assigns or re-assigns priorities for data that the end-user deems most important through its use of industry-first Application-Aware technology. This approach allows enterprises to align the business value of data to its storage resources. In doing so, enterprises experience utilization rates double the industry average, without compromising application performance. With guaranteed 80 percent utilization rates, the Pillar Axiom can not only outperform the competition but lets customers use more of the capacity they buy, decreasing their total cost of ownership.
"We created the Axiom 600 to meet the changing demands of the data center today and for the future, and we're very pleased that Rake and his team recognized the evolutionary trait inherent in our product," said Bob Maness, vice president of worldwide marketing and channel sales for Pillar Data Systems. "Our Application-Aware technology is the foundation for the single best $/IOP in the industry. It gives the Axiom the ability to scale and perform without compromising utilization, which is what every customer should have in a storage solution."
Pillar understands that efficiency isn't about capacity alone. As data centers run hotter and consume more power, customers need ways to get more performance out of their data centers, while cutting power and cooling costs. Pillar helps them achieve this optimal level of efficiency by consolidating multiple tiers and applications onto a single storage platform while delivering industry leading performance and utilization, all while reducing energy and space consumption.
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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. For more information visit www.pillardata.com,
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