SAN JOSE, Calif. - (Business Wire) ScanSafe, the pioneer and world
’s largest provider of web Security-as-a-Service, has selected Pillar Data Systems, the leading provider of Application-Aware Storage, to maintain its Oracle 10g database. The company was looking for a solution to transition from a disparate direct attached storage (DAS) environment to an enterprise-class Oracle application, and chose Pillar for its heterogeneous Application-Aware approach and tight integration with all Oracle platforms and applications.
ScanSafe’s award-winning services keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow organizations to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging. With thousands of customers in over 50 countries and rapid expansion plans, ScanSafe needed a storage solution that was simple to deploy and manage, and would scale as its business grew.
“ScanSafe now has an Application-Aware storage system that will grow with the needs of the business,” said Bob Maness, vice president worldwide marketing, Pillar Data Systems. “Not all applications are created equal. The Pillar Axiom is able to mimic the personality of Oracle, catering for its individual needs. This allows for higher utilization rates and ease of management, a business critical factor for the company.”
With Application-Aware Storage from Pillar, the disk utilization rates have vastly improved. Typically, most storage administrators overcompensate when they are looking to match their storage resources with the value of their data at the application level. The Pillar Axiom allows businesses to provision to the capacity and performance required by the demands of the principal applications, while leaving the rest of the storage capacity to be provisioned for less demanding applications such as archive data. This reduces not only the amount of storage purchased, but it means that businesses can obtain more from their existing systems.
“We chose Pillar over the competition due to its fresh approach to the storage market, which mirrored our own innovative approach to web security,” said Jim Walker, VP global infrastructure, ScanSafe. “The benefits are significant, including reduced total-cost-of-ownership, as well as higher performance and lower cost per terabyte than other offerings. Just knowing that the Pillar Axiom had the same scalability as Oracle made it a much simpler decision for us to make.”
About ScanSafe
ScanSafe is the largest global provider of Web Security-as-a-Service, ensuring a safe and productive Internet environment for businesses. ScanSafe solutions keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow businesses to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging. As a fully managed service, ScanSafe's solutions require no hardware, upfront capital costs or maintenance and provide unparalleled real-time threat protection. Powered by its proactive, multilayered Outbreak Intelligence™ threat detection technology, ScanSafe scans more than 8 billion Web requests and blocks 80 million threats each month for customers in over 50 countries. For more information, visit www.scansafe.com.
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 sales@pillardata.com.
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