ONStor Press Releases

TIME TO JOIN FORCES ON UNIFIED STORAGE

CAMPBELL, Calif., LONDON, UK – October 23, 2008 ONStor, Inc, a leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for primary and value-tier storage for enterprises and content-rich organizations, today announced the results of the latest in its series of IT Issues surveys conducted at the recent Gartner Data Center Summit Amsterdam and SNW Europe in Frankfurt Germany.

According to the survey findings, Unified Storage has yet to make an impact on IT decision makers, with few even able to define what it stands for and even less aware of the business benefits of implementation.

The survey was conducted among the 1600 IT and business decision makers representing four continents and over 37 countries who attended the Shows, at which only 58% of those questioned were familiar with the term Unified Storage.

Unified storage has been defined as a single integrated storage infrastructure that functions as a unification engine to simultaneously support Fire Channel, IP Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) data formats.

Despite this of the 50% who said they could define it, 43% thought it referred to virtualized storage, 56% believed it was a combination of back up and storage.

Other key findings highlighted:

• 21% of the same who had heard of Unified Storage believed it would deliver a lower total cost of ownership
• A further 21% believed it would provide a more flexible network moving forward
• The ability to protect the current investment in infrastructure was only cited by 8% and only 6% felt it would reduce operating costs and capital expenditure

Narayan Venkat, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at ONStor, stated: "What is absolutely clear from these top line survey findings is that the market needs more education on the benefits of unified storage, and that is where the vendor community needs to join forces with analysts to drive this message home. For our part we are ensuring we are including this subject each and every time we meet the analyst community as well as the critical end user market. When we meet with customers and prospects we take the time to educate them on the benefits of a unified storage solution, and this goes from initial meetings with prospects to our existing client training programs".

This is the latest in a series of thought leadership and market defining surveys conducted by ONStor on a wide variety of business critical issues such as green IT, virtualization, IT spending patterns and the exponential growth in unstructured data.

About ONStor

ONStor provides clustered NAS solutions for both primary and value-tier storage, focusing on enterprise data centers and content-rich organizations and giving customers the ability to cost effectively manage the accelerating growth of unstructured data. ONStor’s award-winning solutions deliver flexible data management, protection, and file server consolidation for a new generation of data-intensive applications through a combination of advanced technologies including virtualization and energy-efficient design.

Proven at customer sites worldwide, ONStor Pantera integrated NAS systems plus Cougar and Bobcat clustered NAS gateways offer the broadest choice of storage and enable customers to easily scale storage with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). ONStor solutions are available through a global network of resellers and distribution partners. More information about ONStor can be found at www.onstor.com.

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