ISE Technology Drives Data Center Efficiency For Marketing Automation Provider
Xiotech Corporation recently announced that Entiera recently implemented an Emprise 7000 storage system, powered by Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology, to increase efficiency in its data center through the system's unique ability to easily manage storage in virtual environments and deliver best-in-class usable capacity.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Entiera is a leading software-as-a-services marketing automation company with three offices in the U.S., one in the United Kingdom and one in Thailand. Entiera battled severe server sprawl, inefficient management and slow performance, and needed a new storage system that would greatly simplify the operation of its data center. The organization identified Emprise 7000, featuring self-healing ISE technology and the Virtual View storage management tool, as the best solution for its needs. Also, its ability to deliver 100 percent usable storage capacity with no vendor holdbacks or drops in performance was especially attractive.
"We were at a point where we had more servers than people. We just couldn't sustain that, so we researched SAN options and felt Emprise 7000 was the best choice," said Jeff Wilkins, chief technology officer of Entiera. "After deploying the system and virtualizing our servers, we cut our number of servers from 60 to 10. So the usable capacity has been huge for us, and the Virtual View management tool allows us to provision and manage that storage in just a few clicks. The amount of time that has freed up for us to spend on other projects is remarkable."
Emprise 7000 supports up to 64 ISE (1,024 terabytes) and is managed by dual controllers. It features the Web Services-based ICON Manager user interface with Virtual View for managing storage in virtualized server environments, a distributed cluster architecture, Intelligent Provisioning and a suite of data replication solutions.
ISE technology, the basis for Xiotech's Emprise 7000 storage systems, significantly minimizes disk-related service events through a combination of preventive and self-healing capabilities. Along with 100 percent usable capacity, it achieves the industry's most efficient performance and scalability and enables users to cut their ongoing storage costs in half through its five-year warranty and lower overall management costs.
About Xiotech
Xiotech Corporation delivers the highest storage value available today based on its Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology. With ISE, Xiotech products deliver 100 percent usable storage capacity with no drop in performance. Drives are fully utilized, provide more performance with less hardware because of their efficiency and enable organizations to scale their storage infrastructures up and out with unmatched flexibility. Additionally, Xiotech significantly reduces storage operation and management costs with the patented self-healing technology of ISE and the industry's only five-year hardware warranty. Also, the ICON Manager user interface integrates and automates storage operations across the array, server and virtual machine layers. With these technologies, Xiotech stands alone in its ability to lower an organization's total cost of ownership for storage.
Xiotech is based in Eden Prairie, Minn., and maintains major facilities in Colorado Springs, Colo., and Hyderabad, India. For more information, visit www.xiotech.com.
SOURCE: Xiotech Corporation