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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.
see also:-
Pillar
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- Editor's comments:- in June 2011 -
Oracle
announced it has
entered into an agreement to acquire
Pillar Data Systems -
which was already majority owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
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March 2009 -
Pillar Data Systems
launched the Axiom SSD Brick, a storage module with upto 12
Intel SSDs which is
compatible with Pillar's distributed RAID systems. Pillar's application
aware QoS software dynamically chooses storage types (SSD, FC-HDD, or SATA-HDD)
and tunes performance to satisfy quality of service priorities based on
user selections for each type of application.
In September 2009
- Pillar dumped
Intel SSDs due to
flaky operation and
switched
to STEC. Maybe they
should have spent a bit more time qualifying the Intel product beforehand - or
done a better job at it?
In December 2010 - December 4, 2010 -
Mike Workman, CEO of
Pillar Data Systems
recently published a blog - Cache Works – Sometimes. In it he
demonstrates why one of the failures of reality versus expectation in enterprise
SSD acceleration is the "average flash cache performance" beloved by
marketers. It's the peaks which are the memorable parts of the apps speedup
experience. The blog site has now disappeared - but many of the blogs are now
available as a free pdf
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
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