ECCT and Xiotech’s Highly Reliable and Scalable Virtual SAN System, Built on ISE Technology

As data grows and becomes ever more critical to your organization, you need a storage solution that provides extreme reliability, along with flexible scale. However, traditional disk-based systems all suffer from one problem: Disk drives fail. It is an accepted fact of data center life. The more drives you have, the more failures you must deal with. In fact, the majority of storage related service events are caused by drive failures. This is a time-consuming, risky, and expensive problem. When a drive fails, someone must replace it. That takes valuable time and puts your data at risk. And as the size of drives increases, so does the rebuild time. In addition, a good portion of your maintenance agreement cost is undoubtedly for such anticipated replacements. However, this is not the way things have to be.

ECCT and Xiotech Corporation are changing the rules of the storage game, with revolutionary technology that eliminates virtually all disk-related service events. This solution delivers reliability and scalability unmatched in the storage industry and comes with an unprecedented five-year hardware warranty. Your next generation of storage must manage ever-increasing volumes of data with greater availability, accessibility, and protection. At its core, it must be significantly more reliable with linear scaling of performance and capacity to meet these needs. Based on revolutionary Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology from Xiotech, Emprise storage solutions provide this solid foundation of reliability, performance, and scalability.

Unmatched Reliability

Patented ISE technology provides more than 100 times the reliability of regular disk drives. With no drives to replace, you save valuable time and eliminate the risk of associated data loss. It also saves you considerable money, as disk replacements comprise a large portion of most vendors' maintenance agreements.

Preventive Technology to Minimize Failures

Reduced heat and vibration significantly extend the life of each DataPac.
• Reconditioning and error-detection processes locate and fix potential problems before failure occurs.
• Redundant, hot-swappable components ensure continued availability.

ISE Technology Offers:

• Far cleaner, simpler design that optimizes performance and reliability of its components.
• Local processing power and cache to enable capacity scaling without overburdening controllers.
• Linear scaling of performance: Add ISE to increase performance 2x, 3x, 4x, and more.
• High-performance, grid-based RAID to protect data while delivering fast access.
• Dual active-active controllers that harness all available processing power.

Now your performance-hungry applications can reach their maximum potential, and enable you to reap the benefits: faster processing of sales, more responsive websites, and more.

Flexible Scalability

In a single manageable element, ISE provides the capacity of 20 to 40 disk drives, plus processing power and cache. This makes it easy to scale storage capacity up to one petabyte within a single system, avoiding performance bottlenecks or the headaches of managing thousands of discreet storage elements. When you want more capacity or performance, simply add ISE to your system.

Flexible Configuration and Scale

DataPac options enable you to customize your Emprise system for your organization's needs. You may choose from:

• Performance tier for transactional applications, such as Oracle Database or Microsoft SQL Server.
• Capacity tier for cost-effective data backup and archiving.
• Balanced tier for applications that require a mix of performance and capacity.