Storwize Eliminates Storage Sprawl

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The Storwize family of online data reduction solutions eliminates businesses' reliance on storage and infrastructure sprawl by increasing storage capacity and efficiency -- all without buying more storage. Leading companies worldwide use Storwize to enhance productivity and reduce cost by making better use of their existing storage infrastructure.

Our Technology: Real-Time Compression
Traditionally, the most common form of data reduction technology has been deduplication, generally for use with highly redundant data sets found in backup-to-disk, virtual tape or physical tape library applications. Deduplication provides an acceptable solution for these less performance-intensive sequential-access environments, but cannot meet the random-access, transaction, and throughput needs for actively utilized primary storage.

With over 35 patents, Storwize real-time compression is purpose-built for primary storage data reduction. Our appliances are an inline, non-disruptive solution for low-latency, high-performing storage optimization. Our solution is based upon several key technology pillars:

 Real-Time Operation  - only Storwize supports the performance, throughput, and accessibility requirements of business critical primary storage applications including VMWare and Oracle.

 Complete Transparency  - Storwize works with any vendor's NAS arrays and supports both UNIX (NFS) and Windows (CIFS) protocols. The solution requires no software drivers or server, application, or storage configuration changes.

 Data Integrity  - our Data Integrity Assurance architecture provides end-to-end verification throughout the data path, fault detection, correction, and verification.

 High Availability  - Storwize appliances include fully redundant components and deploy seamlessly into high-availability environments.

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. Also, by reducing file sizes as data is written to primary disk Storwize data reduction cascades throughout the entire data lifecycle because smaller files are migrated, replicated, archived, deduplicated, and backed-up. Large data repositories may also be compressed in-place to free up additional space and further defer new storage acquisitions.

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

 Financial Impact  - With Storwize you get up to 10 times more capacity from your existing storage infrastructure creating dramatic savings in capital, operational, maintenance, and management costs throughout the data life cycle.

 Operational Impact  - Storwize increases the value of your existing storage infrastructure, reducing the need for additional storage capacity. More data can be kept on primary storage enhancing user productivity. Backup and restore cycles can be shortened. Recovery time and recovery point objectives can be improved. Bottom line, IT can manage more data with the same resources.

 Environmental Impact  - By leveraging existing storage assets businesses can dramatically reduce their reliance upon ever-increasing power, cooling and floor space costs resulting in a greener data center.

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