Technology Overview

Storwize Real-Time Compression

Storwize STN-2100 and STN-6000 Series appliances provide online storage optimization through real-time data compression, delivering dramatic cost reduction without performance degradation.

Storwize STN appliances transparently compress primary storage between 50 - 90% without changes in performance, storage, applications, networks, or processes.

STN appliances deliver real-time, random access, deterministic, and lossless data compression, maintaining reliable and consistent performance and data integrity. Storwize helps slow the growth of storage acquisition and related storage life-cycle costs, including reducing the amount of storage to be managed, powered and cooled.

Our Technology: Random Access Compression Engine™ Architecture

With over 35 patents, Storwize's Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) Architecture is uniquely positioned to enable significant primary data compression and storage optimization without decreasing performance or data integrity.

Storwize provides enterprises the following benefits:

Real time data compression between 50 - 90%

No performance degradation
No loss of data integrity
Increases the effective storage cache size

Fully transparent

No change to performance, applications, networks, storage, or process

High Availability

Fully redundant components and deploys seamlessly into high-availability environments

Storage agnostic

NAS protocol support: CIFS, NFS
Support for primary storage applications including Oracle and VMware

Customer Impact

Customers worldwide trust Storwize to optimize their storage capacity without compromising performance and to deliver unprecedented cost savings, ROI, operational efficiencies, and environmental benefits:

Better Storage Utilization

Reduces existing storage utilization between 50-90%
No performance degradation
Maintains data integrity

Lowers Capital and Operational Costs

Slows the growth of storage acquisition
Storage agnostic, supports NAS protocols (NFS, CIFS)
Reduces the amount of storage to be managed throughout the life cycle
Easy, transparent deployment

Better Energy Efficiency

Less to store, power and cool

Data Reduction for
the Entire Lifecycle

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Reduces Storage Footprint and Costs throughout the entire Data Lifecycle

Because Storwize real-time compression applies data reduction as data is written to primary disk benefits are created throughout the entire data lifecycle because smaller files are migrated, replicated, archived, deduplicated, and backed-up. See how much Storwize can save you with our ROI Calc Tool.

Enhancing Storage
Performance & Efficiency

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Enhances Storage Performance and Efficiency

And, because Storwize operates in real-time and addresses data reduction at the point of origin, less data is physically written to disk so storage systems can operate more efficiently.

Contact Us

Storwize is a privately held company based in Marlborough, Massachusetts USA, with offices worldwide. To request information on our real-time data compression solutions, click here.