Key
points of the report are as follows –
“What
impressed us most about the universal unified storage solutions from IceWEB was
the extensive feature set, especially given their extremely competitive prices
(IceWEB claims to be 30% lower than the street price of their name brand
competitors). With the release of IceSTORM, the company is proving it’s its
products are more than just “me too” storage systems and is certainly worthy of
consideration for any sized data center looking to reduce its storage
management burden.”
“The
problem is that the cost of feature-rich unified storage from traditional
enterprise storage has been outside the realm of typical SME budgets. As a
result most of these IT managers end up either making their needs fit the
limitations of a single service solution (SAN only / NAS only) or they buy both
a SAN and a NAS, which adds complexity and cost. IceWEB is positioning their
Unified Storage solutions to deliver a feature-rich storage system at price
points the SME can afford.”
“From
a data services perspective the IceSTORM is surprisingly ready to compete with
the major name brand providers of unified storage. It has the ability to pool
and tier storage based on drive type; for example, logs can be placed on SSD,
databases on high performance SAS and file shares on SATA. The SSD tier can
also be used as a cache, so that active data will automatically be served from
solid state. And, the system provides extensive data protection capabilities
including eight types of RAID, data replication, data integrity checking and
snapshots.”
IceWEB’s
CMO Steven Toole commented on the report, saying “Storage Switzerland is a
long-trusted, unbiased authority in data storage technologies. They’re very
smart people so it comes as no surprise to me that they see the value IceWEB
brings to mid-enterprise organizations looking to simplify their cloud and
virtual environments, increase the efficiency of their storage resources across
multiple protocols, and obtain enterprise capabilities and performance at a
fraction of the cost of traditional storage vendors. As more analysts become
aware of IceWEB, we’re certain that additional positive reports will follow.”
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In the recently published DCIG 2012 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, the replication software available on IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances earned the distinction of “Best in Class” in the Replication Software category. Four factors contributed significantly to IceWEB achieving this ranking: