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…

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...

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…

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…

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...