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Pillar Data Systems
Pillar Data Systems was founded in July 2001 with over $300M in direct funding from Tako Ventures (Larry Ellison’s venture capital firm headquartered in San Jose, CA) and has over 500 employees worldwide. Thus far, Pillar has over 400 customers worldwide, ranging from Tier 1, Fortune 500 companies running missing critical applications to the Small/Medium Enterprise (SME) with a few TB of archive data.
The Pillar Data Systems Axiom series of storage arrays is the first truly application-aware storage platform on the market. Leveraging this functionality, the Axiom can save both CAPEX and OPEX costs by enabling you to both buy less storage and drive higher utilization of the capacity you buy. The Axiom’s performance is unmatched in a high utilization environment due to its robust, highly available architecture. And, because the system was built from the ground up to ensure both reliability and performance at a reasonable cost, the price of the Axiom is very competitive when looking at $/GB or $/IOP. Finally, Green isn’t only Pillar’s corporate color; it’s also built into its core architecture. The Axiom is the most power-efficient array on the market today.
Pillar Data Systems programs
Pillar Data Systems robust Channel Program has enabled us to develop strong relationships with a wide variety or business partners to support our storage solutions and eventually our customers. Whether you are a reseller or software integrator, or you offer hardware solutions or software solutions, a partnership with Pillar can enhance your business growth and profitability by providing solutions that create cost-savings and operational efficiencies for your customers.
Pillar’s Channel Program rewards those select Business Partners with the following benefits:
- Deal registration
- Sales & Marketing Tools
- Online Training
- Competitive Intelligence
- Technical Info
- Recorded Webinars
Pillar’s Emerald Program is designed for select Business Partners that meet a pre-defined set of criteria. Emerald Partners receive:
- Front-end discount pricing
- 3-tiered back-end rebates
- Quarterly business planning
- Assigned Channel Partner Manager
- Assigned Field Resources
- Joint Marketing programs such as Local Seminars, Tradeshows and Webinars
- Targeted leads
Pillar’s Registered Service Provider (RSP) Program enables Pillar Business Partners to authorize their professional services engineers to install and maintain Pillar Axiom equipment. After completion of the program, Pillar’s Business Partner is approved to generate services revenue from Pillar Axiom sales. Services may include installation, optimization, and maintenance of the Pillar Axiom. Registered service programs that Pillar supports are Installation & Pillar Pulse Services.
Benefits of the RSP Program for Pillar Business Partners include:
- Increased Margins from Services Revenue
- Emerald & RSP Partners receive leads generated by Pillar
- Better technical understanding of Pillar Products and Solutions leads to shorter sales cycles
- Joint Marketing programs such as Local Events, Seminars and Webinars
- Emerald & RSP Partners are prominently displayed on Pillar’s website
Recognizing the unique role that different companies play in bringing storage solutions to customers, the Pillar Partner Programs are structured to support the needs of various business models. For more information on Pillar enterprise storage technology or how to become a Pillar authorized channel partner, go to: www.pillarpartner.com or call 877.252.3706
Pillar Data Systems products
Pillar’s innovative Application-Aware Storage approach has set the benchmark for the industry. Pillar Axiom is the First and Only True Application-Aware Storage system. Axiom differentiates performance based on application priority-allowing users to match multiple application characteristics to the appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Also, the service levels are applicable to the single storage pool for all Axiom configurations, regardless of whether SAN, NAS or both are present within a system. As a result, Pillar Axiom delivers 80% utilization rates, lowers operational costs and is the World’s Most Efficient Storage System.
Axiom 300
The Axiom 300 is an attractively priced entry level to mid-range storage solution providing excellent value for the SME business, remote office, and small to medium applications. Packaged and priced as a turnkey storage solution, the AX300 is easy to buy, easy to sell, easy to manage and easy to service. Its unique ability to tailor performance per application; its ease of use; and its ability to scale and support NAS, FC SAN or iSCSI SAN with a common user interface make it the most powerful entry to mid-tier storage offering available.
Axiom 600
The Axiom 600 is Pillar’s flagship enterprise application-aware storage platform. As the first and only true application-aware storage system it provides the highest written utilization rates in storage industry, the simplest storage provisioning, and the only storage system that ties storage services to applications. The Axiom 600 is an ideal storage platform for virtual infrastructure projects, IT data center consolidation projects, and bringing applications online with the highest levels of performance without tradeoffs for capacity utilization, the Axiom 600 is priced very competitively whether looking at $/GB, $/IOP or any other metric.
Axiom 600MC
The Axiom 600MC is Pillar’s Tier 1 array, with redundancy beyond that of the original Axiom 600. Data on the Axiom 600MC is both mirrored and replicated to provide the highest level of protection for mission critical applications. Comprised of modular components and complimentary software, the Axiom 600MC is maintained, optimized and serviced by Pillar Professional Services to meet the high availability needs of any production environment.
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