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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 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?
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
factors. |
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist takes you to a startling new world
of possibilities.
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