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Pillar Axiom Drives Down Storage Costs   November 2, 2009 10:16AM News as reported by the company: Caltrol Drives Down Storage TCO by 60 Percent, Boosts Application Performance with Pillar Data Systems -- Improved Performance and Management Allows IT Staff to Focus More on Growing Business, Less on Managing Storage   Related Topics Pillar Data Systems Axiom Data Storage Enterprise Hardware Storage Systems Network Uptime Latest News Stocks: Three Overstuffed Turkeys Retailers To Stretch Cyber Monday Sprint Completes Purchase of Virgin MS Cost-Cutting CFO To Step Down AT&T and Verizon: Still Dueling It Out San Jose, Calif., November 2, 2009 -- Employee-owned Caltrol selected the Axiom from Pillar Data Systems as its storage platform to significantly lower storage Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and increase application performance. Caltrol recently completed a major virtualization project, which resulted in a 60 percent decrease in storage infrastructure expenditures and a 20 percent reduction in data center power consumption. Caltrol also significantly increased application performance with the Application Aware capabilities of the Pillar Axiom. The IT department at Caltrol, a process management and automation company, serves the needs of the company's eight offices, handling all customer orders, purchase orders, enterprise resource planning (ERP), Microsoft Exchange and file-sharing systems. When the company was forced to replace a key server in its legacy infrastructure after it failed, Caltrol lost 30 days of data with no way to restore it and forced employees to re-enter purchase orders to recreate the data. The total loss amounted to about $1 million. With the goal of implementing a robust disaster recovery system, the company looked at HP's LeftHand systems as well as solutions from Dell, NetApp and Pillar Data Systems. "We didn't have an endless budget for a storage system, so we thought we were going to have to make some trade-offs," said Steve Murphy, IT Director for Caltrol. "We never expected to achieve the easy scalability we have now, and we were blown away by the high level of performance that the Axiom delivered." An unexpected benefit for Caltrol was the "set it and forget" management capabilities of Pillar's AxiomONE software, which was ideal for the four-person IT department. The intuitive management interface makes it easy for users to guarantee a minimum level of application performance and allow multiple tiers of data and applications to be stored on a single system with no performance degradation. "With the Axiom's built-in QoS functionality, we could control the system with as much or as little detail as we needed. The other products we evaluated couldn't do that," said Murphy. "The time savings are worth almost more than the tens of thousands of dollars we saved on hardware costs. We've also dramatically reduced the time our staff is required to spend on managing our storage software system, allowing us to concentrate on expanding our business, and that's far more than we had ever hoped to accomplish at this stage." (continued...) 1  |  2  |  Next Page >   Advertisement  Press Releases 1.   Red Condor Warns of Malware Attack 2.   Livedrive Introduces Livedrive Backup 3.   IDR Streamlines Work Processes 4.   F5 Enhances Application Security 5.   Ring Rang Launches Web Service

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