Candera Announces Enterprise-Class Serial ATA Appliance at Unprecedented Price Point; Enables Enterprises to Deploy a New Tier of Reliable, High-Performance Storage in Seconds.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 Candera(TM), Inc., a company dedicated to simplifying the complexity of storage area networks (SANs), today announced the availability of the new Candera ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment Appliance, which enables customers to deploy a new tier of high capacity, reliable and interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. storage at a price point that is nearly 50 percent of other ATA solutions. Candera's appliance combines the enterprise-class SCE SCE (in Scotland) Scottish Certificate of Education SCE n abbr (= Scottish Certificate of Education) → Schulabschlusszeugnis in Schottland 510 network storage controller with low-cost serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment RAID drives, and allows customers to significantly expand their storage capacity, while also experiencing the benefits of a centrally managed, interoperable and reliable network storage controller. "Today's IT executives are caught between conflicting objectives. Driven by tighter and tighter budget constraints A Budget Constraint represents the combinations of goods and services that a consumer can purchase given current prices and his income. Consumer theory uses the concepts of a budget constraint and a preference ordering to analyze consumer choices. and the tremendous continuing growth in information, they are facing the reality that current approaches to storage, such as 'one size fits all' solutions, are no longer acceptable," said Stephen Terlizzi, vice president of marketing and business development for Candera. "Our appliance enables customers to deploy a new tier of storage in seconds and avoid the management headaches associated with heterogeneous SANs, while also taking advantage of the high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and reliability of our architecture to cost-effectively create an enterprise-class solution." Analysts estimate that low-cost, capacity-oriented storage accounts for 10 percent of all petabytes shipped today, and will grow to 40 percent by 2007.(1) Tiered storage A data storage system made up of two or more types of storage based on their access speed. For example, magnetic disk and tape or magnetic disk and optical disc are widely used in a tiered storage system. See HSM. enables organizations to better classify clas·si·fy tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies 1. To arrange or organize according to class or category. 2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret. and protect their data. They can set policies that match information storage and access requirements to their business processes, deliver the right amount of cost-effective storage for the right tasks, and provide a consistent, central point of management for their storage infrastructure. Organizations that have invested significantly in only very high-end hardware and software approaches in the past, are realizing the benefits of tiered storage. Unfortunately, just adding low-cost ATA storage is not enough since it increases the complexity of existing SANs and creates a management nightmare. Poor interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. causes deployment issues and effectively eliminates any of the benefits associated with a tiered storage approach. The availability of an off-the-shelf, ready-to-deploy ATA appliance based on Candera's network storage controller architecture means that the industry finally has a low-cost, enterprise-class solution that delivers all of the benefits of tiered storage without the management headaches. Candera will offer four standard appliance configurations, enabling customers to add 4 TB, 8 TB, 12 TB or 16 TB of storage capacity. Custom configurations capable of scaling to 180 TB can also be built. Benefits of the new product include: -- High Reliability and Availability: Candera's appliance is the first to combine high reliability, availability and serviceability (system) serviceability - The ease with which corrective maintenance or preventative maintenance can be performed on a system (e.g. by a hardware service technician). Higher serviceability improves availability and reduces service cost. Serviceability is one component of RAS. (RAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Remote Access Service) A Windows NT/2000 Server feature that allows remote users access to the network from their Windows laptops or desktops via modem. See RRAS and network access server. ) features with low-cost ATA drives The formal name for an IDE drive. See IDE. . The appliance features a fully redundant, active-active cluster architecture and high-capacity ATA RAID Using ATA (IDE) drives in a high-performance and/or fault tolerant configuration. See RAID. drives, allowing customers to significantly expand the storage capacity in their enterprise-class environments, at a fraction of the cost of other high-performance storage solutions. -- Nearly Half of the List Price of Other Enterprise-Class Storage Solutions: By taking advantage of commodity serial ATA RAID storage arrays, Candera has reduced the acquisition costs of deploying an enterprise-class solution by nearly half. It supports all hardware RAID levels from full mirroring to parity-protected RAID 5, allowing users to select the appropriate level of data protection for their system. The appliance also includes the easy-to-use Candera Storage Manager and automatic single-step provisioning as standard functionality. -- Deployment in Seconds: Candera's appliance offers automatic device discovery and single-step provisioning so that network administrators can quickly integrate the appliance into their existing SAN environment, and begin immediately setting storage policies. Automatic device discovery is enabled through superior interoperability with virtually any storage platform or operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . ATA storage devices can be sliced and concatenated to satisfy the varying storage capacity demands of users throughout the organization. -- Grow Non-Disruptively into Fully-Functional SCE 510 Network Storage Controller: With a separate software license, Candera customers can upgrade their appliance to become a fully functional Candera SCE 510 network storage controller. Customers can place both legacy Fibre Channel storage and new ATA-based storage into a common virtual pool of storage for information life cycle management. "Data-in-place" import of legacy storage eliminates the need for a backup and restore of the data for migration. The appliance features up to 4 GB of cache, provides eight 1 or 2 Gb/s autosensing Fibre Channel ports and supports up to 48 host bus adapter See host adapter. (HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. ) ports. Pricing and Availability The list price for a fully functional Candera ATA Appliance with 4 TB of storage starts at $86,500. This version can be upgraded to a fully functional SCE 510 network storage controller through a separate software license. World-Class Service and Support World-class technical support will be provided by IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. , which offers 24x7 customer service and help desk support. Customer service plans range from the standard factory warranty, up to a special platinum level service plan with two-hour onsite support in most major cities around the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Please visit Candera's Web site at www.candera.com for more information. About Candera Candera, Inc. is dedicated to simplifying the complexity of SANs through technologies that ease the administration and management of heterogeneous SAN storage. Based on the patent-pending Candera U*Star(TM) architecture, the Candera SCE 510 is the industry's first network storage controller purpose-built from the ground up to meet the rigorous demands of the enterprise data center. Candera's solution has been purchased by various Fortune 2000 customers, representing the manufacturing, government, and digital media and entertainment industries. For more information about Candera, please visit www.candera.com. Editor's Notes Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : -- Candera, the Candera logo and Candera U*Star are trademarks of Candera Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. -- Following is a list of industry analyst quotes discussing the Candera ATA Appliance. Please contact Erika Powelson at 831-424-1811 or erika@taniscomm.com with any questions. Analyst Quotes: "The Candera ATA Appliance, with its high availability and simplified management, has features that had only been found in more costly monolithic Single object. Self contained. One unit. or modular systems. It opens the door to using an inexpensive, ATA storage tier for more than archiving or disk-based backup, but also for secondary business applications and digital media content." Mike Fisch Director of Storage and Networking The Clipper clipper, type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. Group "ATA storage is ready for prime time in the enterprise and is poised to play a crucial role in storage architectures. ATA represents a cost-efficient storage tier that is midway between expensive high-performance disk and tape. It is an appropriate choice for sites with growing data protection requirements and a need for a rapid return on investment. Candera's ATA Appliance provides the high capacity and reliability needed in the enterprise, while simultaneously lowering the time and cost it takes to manage the solution." Michael Karp Senior Analyst Enterprise Management Associates "The Candera ATA Appliance provides a way for customers to install low-cost storage that can be used as another tier to meet their needs. This storage solution provides IT departments with the flexibility to increase their storage capacity today at an attractive price and still have the ability to upgrade to a centrally-managed heterogeneous SAN infrastructure in the future." Randy Kerns Kerns is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. It has a population of c. 5,200. Senior Partner The Evaluator Group "Everyone knows that ATA storage is cheaper, but no one is talking about how difficult it may be to deploy. Candera's ATA Appliance is the first product to simplify the deployment and management of ATA storage in a heterogeneous environment Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. . As a result, Candera has helped reduce the total cost of the storage infrastructure, instead of only the initial cost of the hardware." Nancy Marrone-Hurley Senior Analyst Enterprise Storage Group "Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. (ILM) has the potential to empower users to finally approach data protection, and its long term storage, with a proper storage infrastructure that matches specific value data to the most appropriate storage device. To date, ATA storage, while offering cost efficiencies, has only been used for secondary storage and has not been considered for primary data storage. However, with the introduction of the Candera ATA Appliance, an end user can now easily integrate a tier of ATA storage into their infrastructure and start to realize the true benefits of ILM." Dianne McAdam Senior Analyst and Partner Data Mobility Group "Intelligently deployed ATA storage tiers will bring significantly increased efficiency to the enterprise data center within the next three years. The Candera ATA Appliance is a key contributor to this advancement as the first product to provide fabric-centric software intelligence that seamlessly integrates ATA storage tiers within the larger storage framework." Arun Taneja Founder and Consulting Analyst The Taneja Group "Intelligently deployed ATA storage tiers will bring significantly increased efficiency to the enterprise data center within the next three years. The Candera ATA Appliance is a key contributor to this advancement as the first product to provide fabric-centric software intelligence that seamlessly integrates ATA storage tiers within the larger storage framework." Arun Taneja Founder and Consulting Analyst The Taneja Group (1) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IDC's report, "Storage Spending Plans for 2004," published in October 2003. |
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