- Pillar Data Systems
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company_name = Pillar Data Systems
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company_type = Private
foundation =2001
location =San Jose, California
industry =Data Storage
products = Axiom 500, Axiom 300, AxiomOne
key_people = Mike Workman, CEO| services =
revenue =
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num_employees = 500
homepage = [http://www.pillardata.com/ www.pillardata.com]Pillar Data Systems is a storage company headquartered in
San Jose, California . Pillar Data develops midrange and enterprise network storage systems. The Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its policy-based management capabilities, integratesStorage Area Networks (SAN) andNetwork-Attached Storage (NAS) into a centrally managed storage platform.Pillar Data employs 500 people and its solutions are used by organizations in the financial services, healthcare, government and legal industries. Its primary product offering is the Axiom platform.
Pillar Data is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of
Larry Ellison , founder and CEO ofOracle Corporation .History
Pillar Data was founded in 2001 by Stanford alumnus, Dr. Mike Workman, now CEO and Chairman of the company. [cite web|publisher=
eWeek |url=http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2230240,00.asp|title=History|year=Retrieved 2007-04-06]Architecture
Pillar’s Axiom allows companies to simplify data management by consolidating storage into one storage pool. Pillar Axiom unites SAN and NAS environments and enables management of
tiered storage on one platform.Axiom supports any combination of
iSCSI SAN ,Fibre Channel SAN orNAS . Pillar also offers solutions forMicrosoft Exchange , Oracle,OracleVM , andVMware data.Competition and Partnerships
Pillar directly competes against
EMC ,Hitachi Data Systems ,NetApp ,3PAR ,Isilon ,BlueArc andCompellent in the in the midrange storage hardware industry.Pillar has partnerships with
Symantec ,FalconStor , andData Domain so companies can utilize data de-duplication solutions. Pillar also has partnerships with Oracle andVMware .References
External links
* [http://www.pillardata.com/ Pillar Data Systems Website]
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