Pillar Signs 200th Customer

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Pillar Data Systems, a leading provider ofenterprise network storage systems, today announced Virgin Games as thecompany's 200th customer. Virgin Games, a wholly owned trading division ofVirgin.com Limited, provides a number of online gaming services to users inthe United Kingdom.

As part of Virgin's global drive to develop and promote environmentallyfriendly businesses, Virgin Games chose Pillar over several other storagecompanies for the Pillar Axiom's ability to consolidate multiple tiers ofstorage, applications, and environments into a single platform whileconsuming the lowest levels of space and energy.

"We were looking for a scalable storage architecture to build aconsolidated, environmentally friendly data center," said Leigh Brazier,Technical and Operations Director at Virgin Games. "With Pillar's Axiom, wewill now truly be able to hone in on our efficiency initiatives. We'relooking to partner with vendors who have the same end-game in mind, andPillar's core values fit perfectly with our environmental focus."

Additionally, with the Pillar platform, Virgin Games can achieve up to threetimes its overall disk utilization versus industry alternatives. Bycombining consolidation with maximum utilization, the Pillar Axiom deliversmore performance and capacity while consuming less space and energy than allother midrange disk storage systems on the market today.

Virgin Games is the latest company to look to Pillar to efficiently storetheir business critical information. Others such as Cubist Pharmaceuticals,RedEnvelope, Las Vegas Review-Journal, LeapFrog, R.L. Polk and SwiftTradehave selected Pillar Data Systems to help meet critical businessrequirements while lowering the total cost of ownership of their storageenvironments. Since the Pillar Axiom began shipping two years ago,organizations around the world have turned to Pillar Data Systems toseamlessly unite SAN and NAS and deploy multiple tiers of storage on asingle, consolidated platform, enabling the utmost in storage efficiency."This is a great time to be in the storage industry and a time ofsignificant milestones for Pillar," said Mike Workman, Chairman and CEO, atPillar Data Systems. "Having recently reached our two-year anniversary ofshipping our Pillar Axiom and then garnering our 200th customer, we'redelighted at what we've accomplished. To count Virgin Games to our growingcustomer roster clearly showcases that our customers recognize the value inhow Pillar helps to efficiently simplify, consolidate and save on theirstorage investments. We're happy to say we've surpassed the 200th customermark and are well on our way to our next milestone."

Pillar Data Systems Inc.