NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Honored as Pillar Data Systems 100th Customer
Pillar Data Systems, a leading provider of enterprise network storage systems, today announced NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as the company’s 100th customer. The Center, located outside of Washington, DC, is home to the Nation’s largest organization of combined scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and Universe.
“The Center holds data from active and recent space missions as well as archives, and makes it available to scientists worldwide over the Internet,” said Dr. Joe Gurman, facility scientist at the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Pillar Axiom(TM) Storage System works within a heterogeneous network environment at the Center with multiple client and server systems. The Center uses the Pillar Axiom as a NAS device, consolidating information onto one system from the successful European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) launched in 1995 and Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) launched in 1998. With the pending summer launches of the STEREO space mission and Solar-B follow-up mission to the very successful Japan/UK/US Yohkoh mission, there was a strong need to add additional storage capacity cost-effectively on one easy-to-manage storage system.
“Reaching the 100 customer mark is a major milestone in the primary storage business,” said Tony Asaro, senior analyst for the Enterprise Strategy Group. “It validates the solution and the vendor. On top of that, Pillar has reached this many customers in less than a year. In our experience, with this class of product, this is rarely achieved in such a short amount of time. This speaks to Pillar’s product and to their excellent business execution.”
Gurman added, “We need the capacity for these new missions, which we anticipate will produce 5-10TB per mission each year. It’s important for us to add storage as we need to without increasing management complexity. The more data we can store and make available to scientists and researchers, the better.”
Pillar Data Systems serves industries that, by nature of their business, face critical storage and access requirements to meet industry and regulatory demands. These include leading companies in telecommunications, financial services, energy, healthcare, software development and technology development.
Among the leading organizations who trust Pillar Data Systems to store their business critical information are Plaxo; Las Vegas Review Journal, eHealthInsurance, I/PRO, Play.com and Leap Frog. Since Pillar Axiom began shipping less than a year ago, organizations have turned to Pillar Data Systems to seamlessly unite SAN and NAS, deploy multiple tiers of storage on a single platform and manage multiple applications on one, unified storage system.
“This is a month of milestones for Pillar,” said Mike Workman, CEO of Pillar Data Systems. “We’re celebrating our first anniversary of shipping product, and in that time we’ve eclipsed the 100 customer mark. We’re thrilled to include NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to our growing customer roster. This is continued recognition that our customers are looking for ways to simplify, consolidate and save on their storage investments.”
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops midrange and enterprise network storage systems. The company’s Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. 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.
About NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
The mission of the Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space. To assure that our nation maintains leadership in this endeavor, we are committed to excellence in scientific investigation, in the development and operation of space systems and in the advancement of essential technologies. More information is available on the Web at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html
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