StoreAge And Troika Field Test SAN Storage Management Applications On Network Storage Services Platform
The combined solution provides the power of StoreAge's storage management software with Troika's high performance, fabric agnostic, open platform for hosting network-based storage services software. The StoreAge suite of SAN storage management products provides users with a comprehensive set of business continuity tools that run in a heterogeneous environment.
Troika's Network Storage Services Platform provides hardware data acceleration and a superior way for system vendors and storage application providers to develop and deploy storage services such as StoreAge's volume management, virtualization, snapshot, mirroring, migration, and replication. Troika's NSS Platform is highly compatible with heterogeneous Fibre Channel fabric switch vendors, removes the performance issues surrounding existing SAN appliances, and can easily be deployed in existing fabrics. By utilizing Troika's NSS Platform, StoreAge is able to expand its support for host operating systems and take advantage of Troika's very high performance hardware for storage applications.
StoreAge provides a variety of unique benefits to the Troika Network Storage Services Platform. By porting the StoreAge suite of storage management tools to the NSSP environment, Troika users can:
- Manage storage capacity and storage performance pooling across the entire SAN space;
- Efficiently provision, expand and reallocate storage resources to servers and applications on an as-needed basis, without disturbing the operational applications involved;
- Centrally manage storage across heterogeneous storage devices from different vendors;
- Implement advanced Volume Management, Snapshot, Mirroring, Data Replication and Data Migration capabilities;
- Easily scale in a rapidly growing, highly available SAN environment; and
- Combine SANs using StoreAge's off-the-data-path host agents with agent-less hosts connected to the NSSP.
"StoreAge has demonstrated the ease and benefit of porting to Troika's architecture," comments Doug Rainbolt, CEO and President of Troika. "Having the StoreAge software available on our platform helps take our technology to end users as a complete solution.
The combined StoreAge-Troika solution provides users with a way to efficiently manage storage capacity and advanced storage services in the network across heterogeneous servers and storage systems."
About StoreAge
multiView, multiCopy and multiMirror
multiView creates instant, read/write, reduced-capacity snapshots (logical copies) of any
volume on any storage device in a SAN. Each snapshot is a fraction of the size of the
original volume, and may be mounted by any host on the SAN for any purpose, such as
zero-downtime backup and rapid online restores. multiCopy creates instantly available,
read/write, physical copies of any volume on any storage device in a SAN, enabling data
to be seamlessly copied, moved and re-purposed for tasks such as data migration and
application testing, while leaving production servers uninvolved in the data replication
and movement process. multiMirror is an innovative copy facility that enables the
creation of multiple physical copies of volumes, regardless of storage subsystems and
SAN components. Each copy is independently accessible and instantly available,
allowing production servers to access data while the copy operation is in process.
About StoreAge Networking Technologies
StoreAge Networking Technologies is an innovative developer and provider of enterprise
storage management solutions that centralize and simplify storage network
administration. StoreAge network-based solutions provide a uniform, SAN-wide method
for provisioning storage, ensuring business continuity, enabling cost-effective disaster
recovery, and centrally managing cross-platform, multi-vendor storage environments.
StoreAge's flagship product, SVM™ (Storage Virtualization Manager), has been successfully deployed worldwide, gaining exceptional success in managing storage in a wide variety of application environments including databases, OLTP, e-mail, ERP, CRM, video and many others. StoreAge offers worldwide sales, support and service, with principal offices in Irvine, CA and Nesher, Israel, and is a privately held company spun-off from IIS Intelligent Information Systems (IISLF.OB) in 1999. For additional information, visit the StoreAge website at www.store-age.com or contact the company at info@store-age.com.
About Troika Networks
Troika Networks is the leading developer of Network Storage Services Platforms, which
its partners use to simplify the development and deployment of network-based storage
services. With Troika's NSS Platform, solution providers can quickly deploy their
applications in heterogeneous storage area networks (SANs), regardless of what
switches are deployed, and without the performance, reliability and scalability
disadvantages of generic PC-based SAN appliances. For more information on the NSS
Platform and Troika's technology please visit www.troikanetworks.com or contact
the company at info@troikanetworks.com.