Analyst Reports


StorWize Optimizes Primary Storage
 
Explosive storage growth is increasing capital and operational costs for primary and secondary storage. StorWize delivers a platform for improving the economics of transferring and storing primary and secondary data without sacrificing performance while complementing “downstream” capacity optimization technologies.



Next-Generation Storage: The Lean, Green Compression Machine
 
According to a real-world customer case study provided by the company, an organization expanding from a 50TB system to a 150TB system managed to reduce power consumption - including cooling by as much as 93% - from 14kW to 1kW, and space from two cabinets to four units. While storage performance stays the same or improves, management tasks are also reduced. No drivers or network configuration changes are required, and the appliances can be installed into an existing storage network in as little as 30 minutes. Backup and related functions stay the same...




Data Reducing Oracle
 
“…Companies like Storwize offer an inline appliance that can compress and decompress Oracle data on the fly providing a direct compression of all database data and reducing data where it is the most expensive, tier one, active storage.”



Next Generation Data Protection Market Forecast 2007 – 2011
 
"Data protection remains a key strategic concern for enterprises of all sizes, and evolving business and regulatory mandates are driving companies
to further expand coverage to include distributed data, a constituency that in the past has not always been well protected…
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The Real World Economic Benefits of Primary Optimized Storage
 
As part of this profile, we have had the opportunity to interview two early adopters of Primary Optimized Storage, and understand what kind of Return On Investment (ROI) potential the technology holds. In the following report, we will define this emerging category of Primary Optimized Storage (POS), and introduce Storwize, an early pioneer of these data reduction capabilities. Furthermore, we will discuss how Primary Optimized Storage technology, like Storwize, directly links back to hard dollar ROI for end users…




Storwize STN-6000: The Rise of Primary Storage Optimization
 
New abilities to do production-level capacity optimization will have massive repercussions in the storage industry, and will cause trickledown effects on the rest of the storage infrastructure. Taneja Group is witnessing the beginning of a new age of intelligent storage optimization, and calls this emerging new category Primary Optimized Storage. Taneja Group has identified Storwize as
an innovator and pioneer in this new category. Storwize offers a disruptive new technology that is simple to deploy and manage, and we expect great things from Storwize as this emerging category takes shape over the next year...




Storage Industry Trends and Perspective Solutions Briefs  
 
•   Real-Time Data Compression Integrity and     Reliability
•   Performance Considerations for Real-Time Data     Compression
•   Real-Time Data Compression for On-line
    Active Data

•   Application Transparency and Co-existence     with Real-Time Data Compression
•   Enabling “Green” and Energy Efficient Storage     with Real-time Compression



Application Agnostic Real-time
Data Compression
 
The applicability and benefits of Storwize data compression is not limited to primary on-line storage environments. Although designed for primary and real time data storage use, the Storwize technology provides significant benefits across other applications and storage tiers…



Business Benefits of Data Footprint Reduction
 
Compression is a proven technology providing immediate and transparent relief to move or store more data effectively not only for backup and archive but also for primary storage. Data compression is widely used in IT as well as in consumer electronic environments. It is implemented in hardware and software to educe the size of data to create a corresponding reduction in network bandwidth or storage capacity…