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Cool Vendors in Storage Management
Although other companies seek to reduce storage growth downstream via deduplication or other technologies, compressing data at the source as it is created results in less primary storage consumption in the first place, but also significantly reduced capacity consumption throughout the data life cycle. This technology postpones the need to purchase additional storage by more efficiently using storage capacity. Used together, upfront data compression and deduplication for primary or backup and archive data can leverage their individual abilities to further inhibit storage growth. Avoiding storage sprawl positively affects data center power and cooling and physical footprint considerations. Real-time data compression also improves system performance levels, because I/Os are better-optimized and CPU loads are reduced.
ESG Lab Validation Report on Storwize
Explosive data growth is driving IT managers to look for new ways to reduce the cost, complexity and space requirements of their storage infrastructure. This ESG Lab report examines an innovative high speed data compression appliance from Storwize. Hands-on testing is used to demonstrate non-disruptive deployment, lossless capacity savings, real-time performance, and non-stop fault tolerance.
Storwize Optimizes Primary Storage
Explosive storage growth is increasing capital and operational costs for primary and secondary storage. StorWize delivers a platform for improving the economics of transferring and storing primary and secondary data without sacrificing performance while complementing “downstream” capacity optimization technologies.
Next-Generation Storage: The Lean, Green Compression Machine
According to a real-world customer case study provided by the company, an organization expanding from a 50TB system to a 150TB system managed to reduce power consumption - including cooling by as much as 93% - from 14kW to 1kW, and space from two cabinets to four units. While storage performance stays the same or improves, management tasks are also reduced. No drivers or network configuration changes are required, and the appliances can be installed into an existing storage network in as little as 30 minutes. Backup and related functions stay the same...
Data Reducing Oracle
"...Companies like Storwize offer an inline appliance that can compress and decompress Oracle data on the fly providing a direct compression of all database data and reducing data where it is the most expensive, tier one, active storage."
Optimizing Primary Storage with Real-Time Data Compression
Unlike most secondary storage environments, primary storage tends to be extremely performance sensitive, and does not consist of large amounts of nearly identical data that can immediately benefit from the application of deduplication technology. Truth be told, it takes a unique set of capabilities to optimize the space that stored data takes up in primary storage.
Next Generation Data Protection Market Forecast 2007 – 2011
"Data protection remains a key strategic concern for enterprises of all sizes, and evolving business and regulatory mandates are driving companies to further expand coverage to include distributed data, a constituency that in the past has not always been well protected..."
The Real World Economic Benefits of Primary Optimized Storage
As part of this profile, we have had the opportunity to interview two early adopters of Primary Optimized Storage, and understand what kind of Return On Investment (ROI) potential the technology holds. In the following report, we will define this emerging category of Primary Optimized Storage (POS), and introduce Storwize, an early pioneer of these data reduction capabilities. Furthermore, we will discuss how Primary Optimized Storage technology, like Storwize, directly links back to hard dollar ROI for end users...
Storwize STN-6000: The Rise of Primary Storage Optimization
New abilities to do production-level capacity optimization will have massive repercussions in the storage industry, and will cause trickledown effects on the rest of the storage infrastructure. Taneja Group is witnessing the beginning of a new age of intelligent storage optimization, and calls this emerging new category Primary Optimized Storage. Taneja Group has identified Storwize as an innovator and pioneer in this new category. Storwize offers a disruptive new technology that is simple to deploy and manage, and we expect great things from Storwize as this emerging category takes shape over the next year... Storage Industry Trends and Perspective Solutions Briefs
Application Agnostic Real-time Data Compression
The applicability and benefits of Storwize data compression is not limited to primary on-line storage environments. Although designed for primary and real time data storage use, the Storwize technology provides significant benefits across other applications and storage tiers...
Business Benefits of Data Footprint Reduction
Compression is a proven technology providing immediate and transparent relief to move or store more data effectively not only for backup and archive but also for primary storage. Data compression is widely used in IT as well as in consumer electronic environments. It is implemented in hardware and software to educe the size of data to create a corresponding reduction in network bandwidth or storage capacity... |
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