Pillar Data SystemsReceives Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award

Axiom 600 chosen for innovative technology in storage hardware
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Pillar Data Systems announced today that the Axiom 600 has received Network
Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award for storage hardware. Network
Products Guide, a leading provider of products, technologies and vendor related
research and analysis, annually recognizes and honors vendors from all over the
world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential
and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas
of information technology.

"Innovation is clearly an important factor to greater success and has the most
impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network
Products Guide. "Pillar`s innovation is its Application-Aware technology that
sets it apart from competing products and was the key to wining this award
category."

The Axiom system dynamically assigns or re-assigns priorities for data that the
end-user deems most important through its use of industry-first
Application-Aware technology. This approach allows enterprises to align the
business value of data to its storage resources. In doing so, enterprises
experience utilization rates double the industry average, without compromising
application performance. With guaranteed 80 percent utilization rates, the
Pillar Axiom can not only outperform the competition but lets customers use more
of the capacity they buy, decreasing their total cost of ownership.

"We created the Axiom 600 to meet the changing demands of the data center today
and for the future, and we`re very pleased that Rake and his team recognized the
evolutionary trait inherent in our product," said Bob Maness, vice president of
worldwide marketing and channel sales for Pillar Data Systems. "Our
Application-Aware technology is the foundation for the single best $/IOP in the
industry. It gives the Axiom the ability to scale and perform without
compromising utilization, which is what every customer should have in a storage
solution."

Pillar understands that efficiency isn`t about capacity alone. As data centers
run hotter and consume more power, customers need ways to get more performance
out of their data centers, while cutting power and cooling costs. Pillar helps
them achieve this optimal level of efficiency by consolidating multiple tiers
and applications onto a single storage platform while delivering industry
leading performance and utilization, all while reducing energy and space
consumption.

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About Pillar Data Systems

Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops Application-aware Storage systems
for midsize and enterprise organizations. With the highest utilization rates in
the storage industry, the Pillar Axiom solution is the most efficient storage
system on the market today. The Pillar Axiom cuts administrative time and total
cost of ownership by more than 50 percent as well as provides the only storage
system that can differentiate services based on application priority. Designed
from the ground up as the only true Application-aware Storage system, the Pillar
Axiom allows users to match multiple application characteristics to the
appropriate service levels within a single storage platform. Pillar Data Systems
is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. The
company is headquartered at 2840 Junction Avenue, San Jose, California 95134.
The company can be reached on the Web at http://www.pillardata.com, by phone at
408-503-4000 or by email at sales@pillardata.com.

Pillar Data Systems
Chris Drago, 408-518-4636
Director of Corporate Communications
cdrago@pillardata.com
or
Lois Paul & Partners
Don Jennings, 781-782-5756
don_jennings@lpp.com

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