By VSM News Staff
published: Tuesday, May 06 2008
Axiom Provides the
"Pillar" in Foundry's Infrastructure; Ensuring High
Performance, Scalability and Reliability for Oracle and Exchange Applications.
San Jose, Calif. - May 6, 2008 - Today, Pillar
Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware storage systems,
announced that Foundry Networks selected the Pillar AxiomTM storage
system, as the platform to effectively manage its data and applications in its
production and remote environments. With its application-aware approach, Pillar
has helped the network provider optimize its applications and streamline its
storage environment by standardizing on the Pillar Axiom. The project tightly
aligns with core business objectives set by Foundry Networks' executive
management, including safeguarding critical Oracle and Exchange applications.
A leading provider of high-performance enterprise and
service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic
management solutions, Foundry required a single platform to manage and store
information for its two critical applications, Oracle and Exchange.
Foundry's IT staff also had to combine its strategic business continuity
and disaster recovery goals with its IT roadmap, which includes implementing
Exchange 2007, a sales force expansion, upgraded business intelligence
technology and newly introduced partner programs. Additionally, Foundry was
looking for a reliable storage device to provide a secure infrastructure that
enabled high availability and performance from its applications.
"Foundry is one step ahead of the industry by aligning
IT with corporate objectives, both on a security and application level. While
the storage industry has finally been able to begin conquering data growth and
scalability, application proliferation and integrity is becoming one of the
biggest headaches for IT administrators," said Bob Maness, vice president
of worldwide marketing, Pillar Data Systems. "We are pleased that Foundry
chose to standardize on Pillar to ensure its application uptime and
performance. We look forward to continue working with them to satisfy all of
their storage needs."
Foundry chose Pillar for its ability to optimize application
performance and uptime and system reliability, which lowered total cost of
ownership by 20 percent against competing vendors. With the objective to build
an efficient, centralized infrastructure, the network provider standardized on
Pillar to manage all of its production and test data.
"As Foundry continues to grow, our customers are
continuously demanding more applications and data services, and if you
don't have a solid, efficient infrastructure, you won't meet
expected service levels. Pillar provided the lynchpin we need deliver the
highest levels of application performance, data protection and measurable ROI
for the company," said David Riley, CIO of Foundry Networks. "I
have a great comfort level with Pillar, knowing that the Axiom is designed to
optimize my multiple applications, while driving down storage costs through
greater efficiency."
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops
Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise
organizations. With the highest utilization rates in the storage
industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage system on the
market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total cost of
ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage system
that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed from
the ground up as the only true Application-Aware Storage system, the Pillar
Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the
appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems
is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison.
The company is headquartered at 2840
Junction Avenue, San Jose, California 95134.
The company can be reached on the Web at http://www.pillardata.com, by phone at
408-503-4000 or by email at
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About Foundry Networks
Foundry Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FDRY) is a leading provider
of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing,
security and Web traffic management solutions, including Layer 2/3 LAN
switches, Layer 3 Backbone switches, Layer 4-7 application switches, wireless
LAN and access points, metro routers and core routers. Foundry's customers
include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises,
including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness,
government, financial and manufacturing companies. For more information about
the company and its products, call 1.888.TURBOLAN or visit www.foundrynet.com.
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