How do you get more out of a single floor tile?

Most IT professionals put simplification at the top of their key issues. One way to reduce complexity in the data center is to deploy storage platforms that are designed to host multiple services. This allows you to move off of a DAS (Direct-Attached Storage) system of silos, and onto a network-based storage solution that offers increased capacity, scalability, and cost savings.

With Pillar, you can host SAN (Storage-Area Network), NAS (Network-Attached Storage), and WORM (Write-Once, Read-Many) functionality on one Pillar Axiom system. With one user interface, one licencing scheme, one training class, and all in one single floor tile.

For example, you can consolidate your file shares off multiple servers into one NAS Slammer solution. Separate Pillar Bricks within the unit can support SQL and Exchange server files. Backups can be handled on the inner bands of disks, eliminating much of the need for tape backup. And images can be hosted on Axiom drives, eliminating the need for an optical library.

By consolidating your storage onto a single, multifunctional system, you space, power, cooling, and time, which dramatically improves your Efficiency Quotient (EQ). And, since IDC calculates that administrators can manage more than 20 TBs more data in a networked environment, this approach will allow your IT department to focus resources on other activities that can deliver more value to the business.