Pillar Axiom 500

Built from the ground up based on real customer needs, the Pillar Axiom 500 has the industry's lowest TCO both at acquisition and after more than three years.

Support for Fibre Channel
Pillar has extended the configuration options of the Axiom system, making it more ideally suited for high performance, highly available storage infrastructures. Pillar’s new enterprise configuration includes:

Double the raw capacity: more than 380 TB in a single system
Fibre Channel (FC) drive support, providing a new “premium” level of performance
Higher reliability makes the new FC Brick storage enclosure ideally suited for mission critical applications
SMI-S support
Most flexible array on the market today

Improved AxiomONE software

Over 100% improvement in NAS performance
Non-disruptive code upgrades providing even higher availability
Faster NDMP backup and user interface
Fibre Channel SAN support
Transparent QoS change; change a LUN or a file from one QoS level to another without disruption
Greater data integrity and compliance-ready architecture with Pillar’s AxiomONE SecureWORMfs

Simpler storage consolidation
In the past, storage buyers had to choose between the performance of SAN storage systems and the cost-effectiveness of NAS. Pillar eliminates this tradeoff.

The Pillar Axiom is designed to seamlessly accommodate both SAN and NAS, giving both complete access to a shared storage pool. With Pillar's modular system, you can...

Deploy a NAS-only system
Deploy a SAN-only system
Combine native SAN and NAS on one platform

Multiple Tiers, One Platform
In the Pillar Axiom system, all tiers of data can reside on a single platform, with a single management interface, under a single software license.

Premium — highest performance and availability (available when using Fibre Channel drives)

Tier 1 — high performance and availability levels for mission-critical applications

Tier 2 — increased performance and high availability for mid-performance applications

Tier 3 — adequate performance and availability to support business-utility applications such as file sharing

Archive — cost-effective archive with compliance option

Tiered Storage at the Disk Level
Storage is configured with premium*, high, medium, low, and archive priorities, automatically applying resources in the system to fit individual application needs and maximize asset utilization.

Data is laid out by its performance priority. High-priority data is written to a narrow band on the outermost tracks for increased performance and optimized seek times, while data with lower performance requirements is laid out on the inner tracks.

* Premium level available when using Fibre Channel drives

Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability
Pillar Axiom systems are designed from the ground up for around-the-clock data access and easy repair, while industry-standard components reduce replacement costs.

All components have duplicate, active backups to eliminate any single point of potential hardware failure, with automatic failover and recovery
All components are hot-swappable, allowing on-the-fly replacement
Battery-backed RAM ensures data integrity in the event of a power failure

Configurable as Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
When storage administrators decide to integrate disks into their backup operation, they frequently want to minimize the impact to their existing backup infrastructure. VTL technology allows end users to benefit from the faster backups and restores which disk technology enables without requiring changes to the processes they have in place.

Pillar has partnered with leading VTL vendor, FalconStor Software, to make the Axiom configurable as a VTL. When combined with the affordability, scalability, performance, ease-of-use, and multi-hosting benefits of the Axiom, the Pillar/FalconStor VTL provides a compelling solution for end users.

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