Pillar Data Systems announced the Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named the Pillar Axiom 600 Application-Aware Storage System winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the Best Data Center Management category. This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of end users of technology worldwide. As part of the industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world by end users and readers of the Network Products Guide.
Introduced on July 1, 2008, the Pillar Axiom 600 extends Pillar’s legacy of innovation, including Quality of Service (QoS), native NAS and SAN, distributed RAID, Guided Maintenance, and leading storage efficiency. With the ability to dynamically assign priority to applications businesses deem most important, the Axiom 600 improves overall storage performance and efficiency while driving down the cost of storage infrastructure.
The Pillar Axiom 600 pushes the boundaries of next generation Application-Aware storage, by delivering, and, in an industry first, guaranteeing:

•    80 percent disk utilization: the highest in the industry and double the industry average;
•    The single best $/IOP in the industry and the ability to scale performance without utilization degradation;
•    99.999 percent availability, or less than five minutes of downtime per year, per system; and
•    Additional Application-Aware Storage Profiles to meet the changing demands of the data center today and for the future.

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