Unified virtual storage and SAN storage
solutions provider Dot Hill announced the launch of AssuredUVS Standard and
AssuredUVS Datacenter, built on the company’s Assured architecture. The
appliances consolidate and virtualize storage across storage protocols,
environments and mixed storage platforms to support multiple server
applications.
The appliances help enable small to medium-size businesses to manage
combinations of block storage (Fibre Channel or iSCSI) and file storage (NAS
systems with CIFS or NFS) via a common set
of data management features such as snapshots, thin provisioning, tiered
provisioning, replication, synchronous mirroring and data migration all from
one user interface.
AssuredUVS Standard and AssuredUVS Datacenter models are designed to allow
midmarket organizations to create storage volumes, migrate data and establish
snapshot schedules in a wide variety of operating and hypervisor environments,
including Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Mac OS, VMware vSphere and Microsoft
Hyper-V. The AssuredUVS platform supports storage models from a variety of
vendors, including Apple, EMC, Hitachi/HDS,
HP, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, among others.
"IT managers are looking for storage solutions that not only deliver
immediate value, but also enable flexibility and growth over time, so that
storage can adapt to changes in an organization’s applications, user needs or
business demands," stated Mark Peters, senior analyst at IT analyst and
business strategy firm Enterprise Strategy Group. "Storage solutions that
are both virtualized and unified are ideal to address the needs for both
storage flexibility and data growth. Dot Hill has the right mix of capabilities
and offerings and has positioned itself to capitalize on the market opportunity."
The company said AssuredUVS appliances are expected to be available through Dot
Hill authorized resellers starting in December. List prices start at $63,960
for AssuredUVS Standard models with dual controllers for high availability.
AssuredUVS can be purchased with a variety of capacity and performance options
based on Dot Hill storage arrays, and Asynchronous Replication and NAS support
will be sold as additions to the base package.
"Organizations are rapidly moving beyond the deployment of server virtualization
to simplify and consolidate diverse server platforms. Today, they want to make
server virtualization a scalable, flexible foundation for the vast majority of
their IT workloads," said Richard Villars, vice president of storage and
IT executive strategies at research firm IDC.
"The biggest barrier to achieving this goal is the failure to also deploy
a virtualized storage infrastructure. Solutions like Dot Hill’s new universal
storage solution will make it possible for more organizations to actually
obtain the hoped for gains in IT efficiency and reliability promised in virtual
server build-outs."