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Four years in the making, start-up pushing a multi-tiered storage architecture.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's $100-million baby - storage start-up Pillar Data Systems- is expected to deliver as early as June what analysts are calling a unique storage subsystem that stores data on disk based on its importance to a customer's business.
The company hasn't been talking - and still isn't - but a wealth of information recently posted to www.pillardata.com paints a fairly detailed picture of what the company is planning.
Founded four years ago in San Jose, Pillar Data is funded by Ellison's private investment group, Tako Ventures, to the tune of a reported $100 million. Lawrence Investments, the parent company of Tako Ventures, has interests in approximately 30 technology and biotechnology companies. Pillar Data employs about 300 people and is headed by Mike Workman, a veteran of IBM and Connor Peripherals.
Pillar's Axiom Storage System is expected to let customers combine the storage resources from network-attached storage (NAS) and storage-area network (SAN) environments into a single pool that can be managed and accessed from a single console.
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