Understanding Pillar Axiom Data Protection Options
This document gives an overview of the Pillar Data System® Axiom RAID protection schemas. It does not delve into corner cases or exceptions on functionality outside of what is considered to be “normal” operations. On the Pillar Axiom® storage system, data sets are protected with hardware RAID and striped across multiple disk drives for performance. These data sets can also be doubled for additional levels of data protection.

Optimising Oracle RMAN Backups with Pillar's Replication Solutions
Loss of data due to system or media failure can cost a company several thousand dollars per hour of downtime. Application and data unavailabili ty resulting from downtime of any sort is unacceptable. The need for reliable uptime means that business continuance is critical, with data protection schemes that provide for rapid, seamless, and non-disruptive backup, restoration, and recovery.

Actual Storage Utilisation and your IT Bottom Line
IT budgets are shrinking even as the reliance on data availability grows. Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. One area where IT departments can realise significant savings is in storage. This document provides a simple breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilisation and performance numbers, in addition to costs, are surfaced.

Thin Provisioning with the Pillar Axiom
The Pillar Axiom allows you to provide thinly provisioned file systems and LUNs with characteristics appropriate to support each unique application – all on a single consolidated storage system. Each application-aware volume is automatically tuned for drive type (SATA and fibre channel) and connectivity method (NAS, SAN, or iSCSI), along with specific performance and capacity attributes. Pillar’s thin provisioning works
identically for LUNs and file systems.

The Modern Virtualised Data Centre
What if there was a way to provision your storage the way you provision your
virtualised servers? This way, you could assign array resources (CPU, cache, and disk) based on the applications that will be using them. This would improve the array’s value by greatly increasing its utilization as well as increasing the performance of the applications that run on it. The result would be better server consolidation, resulting in cost savings – and isn’t that what this project is all about?

A Consolidated Archive Storage Array for Compliance and Retention
Consolidating resources on a Pillar Axiom®, with the highest utilisation rates in the
industry, translates to bottom-line capital expenditure (CapEx) and operational expenditure
(OpEx) savings for your enterprise.

Virtual Infrastructure Storage & Pillar Data Systems
The Pillar Data Systems Axiom storage system demonstrates how a centralised storage system can satisfy all of the storage demands of a traditional computing infrastructure as well as provide optimised features and design that dovetails perfectly with the specific demands of today's virtual infrastructure.

Creating Enterprise-Class Storage with Serial ATA Disks
Standards based Serial ATA disks have proven their reliability and market viability. Pillar enhanced this technology to yield a system that delivers performance and reliability comparable to Fibre Channel disks at a fraction of the cost. Discover how Pillar uses a radical approach to transform the storage industry with robust solutions that make sense.

Using Oracle Automatic Storage Manage (ASM) with Pillar Data Systems Axiom Storage System
With the release of the Oracle Database 10g, Oracle introduced several new features that simplify storage management including Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and the Flash Recovery Area which when used together with unique storage features found in the Pillar Axiom storage system can result in significant cost savings.