ESXi 3.5

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(EMWNews)–As a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program, Pillar

Data Systems, a leading provider of Application-Aware Storage

Systems, today announced compatibility of its Application-Aware Axiom

with virtualized VMware environments. The Pillar Axiom and Axiom MC are

now listed on the VMware SAN compatibility guide for VMware ESX 3.5 and

ESXi 3.5.

This new level of functionality reinforces Pillar’s

long-standing commitment to providing application-centric storage

services that are optimized to the specific performance requirements of

each virtual machine in VMware deployments. The Pillar Axiom extends the

benefits of server virtualization by enabling a virtualized

infrastructure which features basic connectivity, multipathing with

HBAs, and storage port failover on VMware ESX 3.5 and 3i Servers.

Similar to the functionality of VMware at the server level, the Pillar

Axiom creates virtual storage LUNs and file systems tuned specifically

to the needs of each application. The Pillar Axiom also enables a level

of performance, scalability, reliability and value that is unobtainable

with traditional infrastructures. Customers realize the full potential

and savings of virtualization when the Axiom storage system is managed

as a single functional unit within the VMware virtual infrastructure.

The Pillar Axiom has the ability to dynamically assign or re-assign

priorities to applications users deem most important to improve overall

storage performance, while reducing the I/O bottleneck seen in legacy

storage systems. Because the Axiom is tuned to work effectively in these

types of environments, it can support 50 percent more virtual machines

than competitive storage environments.

Additional business benefits include:

• Production server and storage consolidation and containment by running

  software applications on fewer servers;

• Advanced business continuity protection at a lower cost, and high

  availability for critical applications;

• Software test and development consolidating disparate development,

  testing and staging environments with multiple operating systems on

  the same hardware; and

• Industry leading disk utilization rate (80 percent), allowing

  customers to use more of what they purchase.

“As virtual environments become ubiquitous in

nearly every enterprises’ IT infrastructure,

the Pillar and VMware relationship continues to deliver substantial

benefits to customers through a close, symbiotic linkage of server and

storage virtualization,” said Bob

Maness, vice president of marketing at Pillar Data Systems. “Together,

Pillar and VMware are delivering great technology innovation and value

to our joint customers.”

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 [email protected].

Pillar Data Systems, Pillar Axiom, and the Pillar logo are all

trademarks of Pillar Data Systems. Other company and product names may

be trademarks of their respective owners.

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