News Release
17 October 2007

Pillar preserves Wellcome Trust history to foster and promote medical innovation and research

~ provides scalable and easy-to use storage system for digital archival of precious and unique content and artefacts ~

The Wellcome Trust has selected Pillar Data Systems to provide its storage system solution to manage its entire network file and data shares.

As part of this, the Pillar Axiom storage system will be used to digitally preserve more than 250,000 images, from over 70 years of medical research.

As the UK's largest charity, The Wellcome Trust funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending around £500 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the brightest ideas.

'Preserving the contents of the library is vital to ensure we are able to continuously drive innovation in medical research,' said Mark Bramwell, head of systems development at The Wellcome Trust. 'Being able to expand the storage system without taking it off-line and at the same time ensuring it is transparent for anyone wishing to access network files and medical images, was essential. We also needed a system that was robust enough to handle around the clock requests by The Trust's users. The Pillar Axiom delivers all this. It is quick to provision and can be left online while adding extra capacity. This means we no longer need multiple storage products,makes managing capacity simpler whilst knowing that the total cost of ownership takes away the headache of budgeting in coming years.'

'The Pillar Axiom is core to the Trust's storage strategy, whether that be file shares, data resilience, scalability or the digital archival of precious and unique content and artefacts. We have been delighted with our relationship with Pillar Data Systems and its team has been there with us shoulder to shoulder,' continued Bramwell.

'The Wellcome Trust now has a storage area network that it can manage easily and that will scale as it grows,' said Chris Jones, VP Europe at Pillar Data Systems. 'Consolidating onto a single system also ensures the data centre uses less energy and the physical system takes up less floor space. This is especially important as The Wellcome Trust predicts its storage needs will grow to more than 350 terabytes within the next five years.'

The Wellcome Trust has bought a SAN solution with replication capability. As a second phase to the project, it is looking to reduce its dependency on tape-based backup by mirroring data over the wide area network to a remote site. This will enable the Trust to utilise off-peak bandwidth availability to perform the replication, while also seeing the advantage of reduced power, space and cooling, reducing costs still further

For more information about Pillar Data Systems visit: www.pillardata.co.uk

Notes to Editors

About Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is the largest charity in the UK. It funds innovative biomedical research, in the UK and internationally, spending around �500 million each year to support the brightest scientists with the best ideas. The Wellcome Trust supports public debate about biomedical research and its impact on health and wellbeing.

About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops enterprise network storage systems. The company's Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity.

Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. The company is headquartered in San Jose. The EMEA headquarters is in Ireland, with initial operations across Ireland, UK, Germany and France.