I am not sure how many of you have seen the ABC show 'V' but it looks like they have it looks like they have two things in common with Storwize.
First, if you are unfamiliar with the show V - the description from their website is as follows:
The Visitors spread their message quickly and clearly: They come in peace, bearing gifts of medical miracles and technological breakthroughs far beyond our wildest imaginations.
Very similar to Storwize. We visit customers in peace bearing gifts of miracles and technology breakthroughs beyond their wildest imaginations. Storwize is the only company to do real-time data storage compression without performance degradation. As the growth of data exceeding 487M TB (IDC 2008 study) something has to be done to control this growth and end users are quickly turning to capacity optimization technologies to control this growth and more specifically to Storwize Real-time compression.
With another banner quarter under the belt, I had an opportunity to meet with a number of existing customers as well as customers to be. One of the more interesting meetings came when I met with a large manufacture in the mid-west. We were sitting with the storage architecture team and the finance team. We were going through our usual presentation, showing the finance folks the savings they were able to achieve with Storwize. Storwize was able to compress their data 66% giving them back more than half of their storage capacity that they could continue to grow into. We also showed them how there was no impact to their production environment with the Storwize appliances in line. The finance folks were VERY impressed. At that moment one of the storage architects jumped out of his seat and said, "But wait, your forgetting the most important point." To which we all looked at each other a bit perplexed and said, "Oh, what is that?" And he replied, "Storwize is Butt Simple!". He went on to say that the deployment (during their POC) caused no down time (they were in an HA environment) and once in place, they just started compressing - no change to their filers, no change to their networks, no change to their applications and the end users never even knew anything different. He said, "Storwize makes my job simple and look like a hero to my boss!".
It was a great testimonial for the real-time, random-access compression technology. Storwize has between 100 and 200 customers today with over 200 appliances in the field. The technology is tested in some of the largest enterprises.
Storwize has an east coast customer who is compressing 1.7PB of data to just over 750TB. The data is SEC archive data. The customer was able to migrate from 15 filers to 3 (newer) filers and not only reduced the required capacity they needed, but because they are in downtown Boston, reduced the floor space, power and cooling requirements.
Storwize, much like "V" can deliver "A Bright New Day" to your datacenter (and who knows, perhaps our founders aren't really from Israel - our logo and the "V" logo are very similar :) )