South African IT services and solutions company SYSDBA and US server software provider 3PAR have teamed up. The companies aim to provide a simpler, more agile and cheaper way of storing and accessing large volumes of data.
3PAR says its "Utility Storage" is a simple, efficient and scalable tiered-storage array for utility computing that lets customers serve more with less.
According to John Silva, 3PAR EMEA partner sales manager, 3PAR can cut an organisation's total cost of data by 50%. "Capacity and related costs can be cut up to 75%, while storage administration and associated expenses can be reduced up to 90%."
Chris Bamber, MD of SYSDBA, says the secret lies in virtualisation, something the industry has been pushing for years, but that has never caught on, until now. Bamber explains: "There is something missing from virtualisation, which 3PAR delivers."
He points out that there has never been any question that virtualisation is a necessity to take advantage of utilisation environments for the improved efficiency and flexibility required in unpredictable markets.
However, he says, the drawback of virtualisation environments has always been the storage, for the simple reason that it was not designed for utility computing environments.
"Utility storage overcomes this problem by shoehorning virtualisation into a new architecture, thereby adding layers of complexity and management," Bamber explains.
At the heart of this system is 3PAR's InSpire Architecture, which he claims is the first fully-interconnected mesh storage architecture.
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