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posted on 12 August 2008 10:36

PSAN JOSE, Calif.— August, 11, 2008 -- Pillar Data Systems announced today that Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and a world leading publication on technologies and solutions, has named the Pillar Axiom 600 Application–Aware Storage System winner of the 2008 Best Products and Services Award in the Best Data Center Management category.

This respected annual award honors products and services that represent the rapidly changing needs and interests of end users of technology worldwide. As part of the industry’s leading global awards program, this year’s Best Products and Services were nominated from all over the world by end users and readers of the Network Products Guide.

Introduced on July 1, 2008, the Pillar Axiom 600 extends Pillar’s legacy of innovation, including Quality of Service (QoS), native NAS and SAN, distributed RAID, Guided Maintenance, and leading storage efficiency. With the ability to dynamically assign priority to applications businesses deem most important, the Axiom 600 improves overall storage performance and efficiency while driving down the cost of storage infrastructure.

The Pillar Axiom 600 pushes the boundaries of next generation Application-Aware storage, by delivering, and, in an industry first, guaranteeing:

* 80 percent disk utilization: the highest in the industry and double the industry average;
* The single best $/IOP in the industry and the ability to scale performance without utilization degradation;
* 99.999 percent availability, or less than five minutes of downtime per year, per system; and
* Additional Application-Aware Storage Profiles to meet the changing demands of the data center today and for the future.

The Axiom 600 application profiles are designed for VMware, multiple Oracle applications, VTL deployments, Microsoft Exchange, SQL, as well as a host of others. These pre-configured and user-customizable profiles allow the user to optimize their Pillar Axiom systems for specific applications simply by selecting the appropriate profiles from a pull down menu in the management GUI.

“Increased end user awareness and ongoing advances in technology are helping shape better products and services. The Pillar Axiom is ideally suited to complement the next generation data center and enables users to maximize their storage and applications to get the best utilization from their resources,” says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Network Products Guide. “We recognize the Pillar Axiom 600 as the leading product in optimizing customers’ storage environments for better ease of management in their data center.”

“We are honored that our Application-Aware Axiom 600 Storage System has been selected as the winning product in the ‘Best Data Center Management’ category. Every year, these awards go to the best technology products and we are privileged to gain the trust and support from readers of the Network Products Guide,” said Bob Maness, vice president of marketing, Pillar Data Systems. “We are making industry-first guarantees that users can efficiently manage their data center with the Axiom 600, and this award demonstrates that we are committed to meeting our customer needs by providing them with the best product and services.”

About Network Products Guide Awards

Network Products Guide, published from the heart of Silicon Valley, is a leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related research and analysis. You will discover a wealth of information and tools in this guide including the best products and services, roadmaps, industry directions, technology advancements and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent technology decisions impacting business and personal goals. The guide follows conscientious research methodologies developed and enhanced by industry experts. To learn more, visit www.networkproductsguide.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.

^{[Formatted by Paul Warren.]}