9th August 2007
~ efficiency key reason for choosing Pillar Axiom~
Pillar Data Systems, a leading provider of enterprise network storage systems, today announced Virgin Games as the company's 200th customer. Virgin Games, a wholly-owned trading division of Virgin.com Limited provides a number of online gaming services to users in the UK.
"We were looking for a scalable storage architecture to build a consolidated, environmentally friendly data centre," said Leigh Brazier, technical and operations director, Virgin Games. "With Pillar's Axiom, we will truly be able to hone in on the efficiency initiatives that we have been heavily focusing on. We're looking to partner with vendors who have the same end-game in mind, and Pillar's core values fit perfectly with our environmental focus."
In addition, with the Pillar platform, Virgin Games can achieve up to three times disk utilisation versus industry alternatives. By combining consolidation with maximum utilisation, Pillar's Axiom delivers more performance and capacity while consuming less space and energy than all other midrange disk storage systems on the market today.
Virgin Games is the latest company to look to Pillar to efficiently store their business critical information. Joining Cubist Pharmaceuticals, I/PRO, Las Vegas Review-Journal, LeapFrog, R.L. Polk, SwiftTrade to help meet critical business requirements while lowering the total cost of ownership of their storage environments. Since the Pillar Axiom began shipping just over two years ago, organisations have turned to Pillar Data Systems to seamlessly unite SAN and NAS and deploy multiple tiers of storage on a single, consolidated platform, enabling the utmost in storage efficiency.
"This is a great time to be in the storage industry and a time of significant milestones for Pillar," said Mike Workman, chairman, president and CEO, at Pillar Data Systems. "Having recently reached our two-year anniversary of shipping our Pillar Axiom and now reaching our 200th customer, we're delighted at what we've accomplished. To count Virgin Games to our growing customer roster clearly showcases that our customers recognise the value in how Pillar helps to efficiently simplify, consolidate and save on their storage investments."
For more information about Pillar Data Systems visit: www.pillardata.co.uk
Notes to Editors
About Virgin Games
Virgin Games (http://www.virgingames.com), a subsidiary of Virgin.com Ltd, launched in July 2004 and has quickly established itself as one of the leading gaming websites in the UK. Virgin Games currently comprises four distinct offerings:
Virgin Poker, part of the Boss Media network, offers a huge array of games and content for beginners through to experienced pros - as well as the most generous loyalty scheme in the industry Virgin Bingo, part of the St Minver network, offers cash prizes worth thousands of pounds in the progressive jackpots, as well as featuring regular celebrity guests in the Virgin chatroom Virgin Casino, part of the Wagerworks network, brings consumers classic casino offerings like blackjack and roulette, as well as great feature slots like Monopoly, Cluedo and The Wheel of Fortune Virgin Skill, part of the Fun Technologies network, features over 20 classic skills games to play for free or from as little as 5p
Virgin Games is about more than winning money - it's designed to offer fun and entertainment with all of the games available to play for free as well as for cash. Virgin Games also features an industry leading loyalty scheme which allows players to exchange V Points for Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles, Virgin Vouchers or donate money to charity via Virgin Unite.
About Pillar Data Systems
Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops enterprise network storage systems. The company's Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity.
Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison. The company is headquartered in San Jose.. The EMEA headquarters is in Ireland, with initial operations across Ireland, UK, Germany and France.
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