Storwize, Inc. is the only provider of innovative online storage compression solutions that dramatically boost storage space on network storage environments.
Storwize enables organizations to maximize their storage infrastructure for a fraction of their current cost, in a business reality of continuous growth in storage demands.
The solution, based on a plug-and-play appliance acting as an add-on to any storage system, provides real time and transparent compression.
Key benefits include:
• 2-5 times capital expenditure reduction across the entire data storage budget.
• Substantial consequent IT operating expense reductions.
• Reduced I/O service time resulting in performance enhancement in most cases.
Value Proposition
The Storewiz value proposition consists of 3 pillars:
• Innovative approach to a conservative market – based on existing industry compression algorithms, Storwize has developed a revolutionary, technology that enables accessing compressed data in real-time.
• Immediate ROI – simple business model allowing hassle free, significant savings from day one.
• Simplicity – a typical Storwize appliance installation does not take more than 30 minutes.
Storewiz technology offers:
• Universal, real-time, lossless, direct-access data compression and decompression.
• Full transparency to any data centre/network/storage component.
• A simple to deploy, plug-and-play appliance acting as an add-on to any storage array of any vendor brand.
• No performance deterioration. Reduced I/O service time (due to compression) improves performance in most cases.
• Compression capabilities for both file- and block-level data compression, using off-the-shelf, industry tested compression algorithms.
• Support for all tiers of storage and applications (including OLTP Data Bases).
• A platform ready to seamlessly integrate security solutions together with the existing compression.
• No resident file system; appliances are interchangeable with no loss of data.
• Optional filtering features offer a choice of selective data compression and of running in transparent data mode.
