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http://www.storwize.com/PR/StorwizeSTN6000i.pdf

LOS GATOS, Calif., April 6, 2009 – Storwize, the market leader in primary storage optimization, today announced its new STN-6000i Series appliance. The STN-6000i is the first capacity optimization solution to universally reduce data on primary and secondary (backup) storage while also enhancing storage performance efficiency, enabling IT organizations to achieve operational and cost efficiencies in IT infrastructure and bandwidth, as well as associated power, cooling and floor space costs.

“Now, more than ever, cost containment is a key concern. Data reduction technologies for primary data and secondary copies of data can help drive down costs by using less storage, and can, perhaps, extend the useful life of currently deployed solutions,” said Dave Russell, Gartner Research Vice President. “IT directors and storage administrators responsible for primary storage, backup/recovery and/or disaster recovery will want to consider solutions for their ability to reduce storage capacity requirements throughout the data lifecycle.”

Anything the vendors can do to aid in the management and provisioning of storage has to be a good thing, being able to cope with the various business needs in the storage world whilst managing capacity can be a challenge for all concerned.

Let’s not forget that my inability to allocate storage is my problem, but I can so easily make it a business problem, therefore how we report and act on those reports becomes so important – to avoid those which project/platform doesn’t get their storage allocated as Front Office need their new system brought online.

How we store our data, what procedures for compression, for archiving data to disk become ever more important – simply limiting user profiles, deleting legacy log files can all affect the performance of the storage and it’s ability to replicate/respond in real time.

The Storwize appliance sounds interesting, I’ll need to check it out.

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