Posted by Patrick Phonsakkhwa on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 @ 07:00 AM
The First Church of Christ, Scientist To Discuss How to Flatten Chronic Data Center Costs Using StorSimple 5020 and Amazon S3
Santa Clara, Calif. – April 18, 2012 – StorSimple today previewed a presentation to be given by its customer at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2012 in New York City on April 19, 2012. The talk by Terry Barbounis of The First Church of Christ, Scientist will highlight StorSimple’s Gold-level presence at the event. StorSimple and its customer will discuss how to dramatically reduce data center costs using cloud-integrated enterprise storage. StorSimple achieved this presence at the AWS Summit based upon the strategic nature of this category of solution for Amazon S3 customers.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist will share important perspectives on its journey to adopt cloud-integrated enterprise storage, highlight the dramatic benefits and cost savings, and discuss how it is an integral part of its long-term strategy. The speaker session is particularly relevant to enterprises that want to leverage Amazon S3 storage while continuing to deploy high-performance on-premise storage for a broad range of applications and workloads.
“We are extremely grateful that The First Church of Christ, Scientist agreed to tell its story about the combination of StorSimple and Amazon S3 as part of its overall strategy to utilize cloud services and shift from a capex to opex model,” said Bridget Warwick, StorSimple CMO. “We’re also pleased that Amazon recognized the value that this presentation will provide to AWS Summit attendees.”
“I’m looking forward to sharing our experience with StorSimple with my peers at the AWS Summit,” said Terry Barbounis, cloud consultant, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. “Cloud-integrated enterprise storage fits our need to consolidate primary, backup, archive and disaster recovery functions and eliminate expensive backup equipment used for data protection. StorSimple brings us the best combination of features and price, and a client team that works as partners with us, which proved their value before purchase.”
Cloud-integrated enterprise storage is an emerging category of storage solution that consolidates primary, archive, backup and disaster recovery through seamless integration with the cloud. By combining SAN storage and cloud data management on an enterprise-class platform, these solutions enable new levels of speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery while reducing both primary and data protection costs.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is a global organization with branches in 75 countries. It is also well known for its international news organization, The Christian Science Monitor. It uses AWS and S3 to create an IT utility that allows it to cross-charge infrastructure costs to their departmental customers who can choose to scale up or scale back, including storage capacity.
The Church purchased a pair of StorSimple 5020 cloud-integrated enterprise storage appliances for its VMware and Windows-based file shares. Amazon S3 storage is used as a tier for inactive data on primary storage, as an on-line archive for historical files, as a replacement for backup tapes and as an off-site disaster recovery repository. In addition, automating snapshots and backups means the IT team at the Church saves hours each week by not having to manage backup and tape media. They use multiple regions in S3 for redundant protection against unexpected service or communication outages.
The StorSimple system de-duplicates and compresses data it stores on disk. Reducing data this way allowed the Church to scale back the amount of storage they need by more than 80% compared to its previous Fibre Channel SAN. In addition, StorSimple’s data reduction saves the Church on every gigabyte that is transferred and stored in the cloud.
For more information on StorSimple at the AWS Summit 2012, please visit http://www.storsimple.com/aws-nyc-summit. For more information on StorSimple’s cloud-integrated enterprise storage solutions, please visit http://www.storsimple.com/product-overview/.
About StorSimple
StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) is the leader in cloud-integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances were named 2011 Products of the Year in the Storage Systems category by Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com.
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Posted by Patrick Phonsakkhwa on Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 07:00 AM
New versions of award-winning products add greater capacity, up to 100x faster data recovery and 60 to 80 percent lower TCO across larger workloads and more applications
Santa Clara, Calif. – April 3, 2012 – StorSimple today announced the immediate availability of its extended family of cloud-integrated enterprise storage products.
The new StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520 appliances with software version 2.0 support larger enterprise workloads and data sets with an increased capacity amount of up to 100TB of usable local storage. Performance enhancements in cloud data management provide up to 100x faster cloud-based disaster recovery compared to traditional backup in the cloud. These new capabilities allow customers to use StorSimple to reduce storage TCO by 60 to 80 percent and further drive cloud-integrated enterprise storage to mainstream use cases.
Cloud-integrated enterprise storage is an emerging category of storage solution that consolidates primary, archive, backup and disaster recovery through seamless integration with the cloud. By combining SAN storage and cloud data management on an enterprise-class platform, these appliances enable new levels of speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery while reducing both primary and data protection costs.
“A wide range of Fortune 1000 enterprises across verticals like retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, services, consumer goods, healthcare and banking as well as government customers have done their first storage deployments on public clouds using StorSimple,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple co-founder and CEO. “For these customers, the choice comes down to continuing status quo or working to leverage the cloud, and this disruption has led to the emergence of the cloud-integrated enterprise storage market segment. We are leading this disruption with our award-winning products that integrate the cloud with enterprise storage infrastructure and processes.”
“The StorSimple solution automatically stores inactive data and snapshots from our SAN in the cloud, which has made a huge difference in the amount of time we spend managing storage,” said Luke Gracie director of information technology at InventHelp, “The cost is comparable to what you’d spend for a traditional SAN array, but you get additional features such as deduplication, compression, tiering and cloud-based disaster recovery – all with a single system.”
The second-generation of StorSimple appliances, the 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520, include a number of important new capabilities in the following areas:
Higher local capacity and greater performance
The new appliances provide up to 100TB of usable local storage, and include higher capacity controllers with NVRAM support, along with software optimizations that offer an order of magnitude performance increase over previous versions and increased local storage capacity with enterprise SSD and SAS. As a result, customers can leverage cloud-integrated enterprise storage across larger workloads and a broader range of applications.
Cloud Data Management
StorSimple enables record-breaking times for application data recovery from cloud storage – up to 100TB of data per day with a single StorSimple appliance over a 50Mbps WAN link. In contrast, traditional cloud-based backup would take over 90 days to restore 100TB of data, while using twice the bandwidth (100Mbps). When coupled with StorSimple’s ability to store data in application-level (vs. backup) format, these performance improvements enable enterprises to confidently leverage the cloud for backup and restoring primary business data.
To improve customers’ cloud resiliency and vendor diversification, StorSimple appliances now can store complete sets of data across two different cloud providers or regional locations. As a result, customers can use one provider or geographic location for primary cloud storage and another for backup – using a single StorSimple appliance and the CloudClone™ feature. Expanded cloud provider support now includes storage services from Google, HP and Rackspace, as well as Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS).
Enterprise-class Platform
StorSimple’s new appliances include an expanded set enterprise-level operational and management capabilities. To maximize application availability, customers have the ability to non-disruptively upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 system software – allowing applications and business processes to run continuously while StorSimple appliances are being updated. IT teams gain additional benefit through reduced management and planning time required for system updates.
StorSimple 5020 and 7020 appliances with software version 2.0 have already achieved VMware Ready certification and the 5520 and 7520 are expected to achieve the same certification in Q2 2012.
Pricing and Availability
The StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520 appliances are available immediately. Pricing starts at $40,000. For more information please go to http://www.storsimple.com/cloud-integrated-enterprise-storage.
About StorSimple
StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) is the leader in cloud-integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances were named 2011 Products of the Year in the Storage Systems category by Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com.
