Reduces Volume of Data Used for CAD by Two-Thirds
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED; Headquarters: Tsuzuki-ku,
Yokohama, President: Toshiaki Sunagawa) announced today that Mazda
Motor Corporation (Headquarters: Aki-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture;
Representative Director & President: Hisakazu Imaki) has reduced the
volume of data used to design new cars (mainly in CAD) by two-thirds
compared to the previous level, thus achieving a substantial reduction
in storage investment costs, by means of deploying the STN-6500 from
Storwize Inc. (Headquarters: San Jose, California, U.S.A.; CEO &
Founder: Gal Naor).
In 1996, Mazda launched the Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) project
and since that time has digital information to promote end-to-end
process innovation on a company-wide scale, ranging from product
planning to preparations for production. For this project, the company
managed all of the tens of thousands of parts that comprised a car
using 3D digital data, which continued to increase annually in units
of terabytes. In addition, even after a car model is phased out of
production, such data needs to be stored for ten years in order for
Mazda to fulfill its product responsibility and provide product
warranties. In the past, Mazda stored this data in three units of
NetApp Inc.'s NetApp FAS940C/FAS3050C, but given the inevitability
that the volume of data would continue to grow in the future the
company began considering measures to keep expenditures on storage
under control.
In December 2007, after six months of verification, Mazda deployed
STN-6500 (a high-end model from Storwize's real-time data compression
appliance STN-6000 Series) for one of its NetApp FAS3050C units. By
June 2008, the company had compressed 10TB of its data, resulting in a
6.5TB reduction in data. The STN-6000 Series uses its unique
compression/expansion technology to substantially reduce the volume of
data stored in NAS (NetApp, EMC) and improve the performance of
storage systems.
The results brought by deploying STN-6500 are:
-- Data can be compressed by two-thirds compared to the original
volume, providing up to 27 TB of data storage for each unit of
NetApp FAS3050C, for a maximum total capacity of 81TB.
-- One secondary benefit is that power consumption is reduced by
some 17 kW compared to the data storage area for a similar
volume of data.
Since the recent deployment of STN-6500 brought high cost
reduction effects, Mazda will implement a phased expansion of the
scope of data to be compressed. The company plans to compress data
equivalent to an entire unit of FAS3050C by March 2009. TED will
support Storwize's products through its extensive structure and
actively offer storage solutions that meet corporate needs in the
future.
About Tokyo Electron Device Limited CN Business Section
Tokyo Electron Device is a technical trading firm with a "trading
business" function for providing semiconductor products and business
solutions as well as a "development business" function for designing
on an outsourcing basis and developing products under its own brand.
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ahead of others in order to offer products and services that cover
processes that span everything from implementation to support. For
more information, visit: http://cn.teldevice.co.jp/english/index.html.
About Storwize
Storwize is the market-leading provider of real-time lossless
compression solutions for primary storage. Storwize enables companies
to dramatically reduce the amount of space required for storing data
resulting in significant savings of capital expenditures as well as
save up to 95% on power, cooling, floor, space and storage management
resources. By reducing organizations data footprint by an average of
65% across multiple applications and up to 95% on critical business
applications such as Oracle databases and VMware, Storwize extends the
life of data centers. Storwize novel technology makes it possible to
compress data in-line at wire speed as it traverses between servers
and primary storage with no additional latencies. By compressing at
the point of origin, where data is initially created, less data is
written to storage, leading to significant reductions in storage
systems' CPU and disk utilization with a dramatic improvement of the
effective cache size by as much as 20x. Moreover, space reduction
applies to all copies of primary storage in the Data Center without
compromising performance, functionality or data integrity. Storwize
solutions are agnostic to applications and workloads and work across
multi vendor storage environments. They are easy to use by
transparently integrating into existing environments without the need
for server drivers or configuration changes.
Headquartered in San Jose, CA, Storwize partners with the leading
storage and infrastructure software vendors such as NetApp, Oracle,
VMware and EMC. Storwize solutions have been deployed by multiple tier
one enterprises worldwide. Storwize is a member of the Green Grid. For
more information, visit the company's website: www.storwize.com
JPR Communications
Judy Smith, 818-386-0403
judys@jprcom.com
or
Storwize
Orli Amir, Vice President of Business Marketing
orlia@Storwize.com
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