Faster, Easier Server Management With Virtualized Storage

By Rob Peglar, Vice President, Technology, Storage Systems Group & Christopher Arnold, Worldwide Services Program Manager Xiotech Corporation

Xiotech Corporation's Magnitude 3D® family and Emprise™ 7000 system are built on a unique virtualized storage architecture, which dramatically simplifies, speeds, and reduces the cost of both server and storage management. With this innovative technology, you can easily perform most server administration in the middle of the day, without any planned downtime.

In addition, Xiotech's innovative ICON Manager software—utilizing Web Services as its communication method between servers and storage—enables you to combine many aspects of server and storage management into a single, unified whole, thus reducing even further the time required to perform critical server management tasks. This approach removes many administrative, training, and cost barriers that are present in proprietary interfaces (APIs) or slow and tedious browser-plus-Java storage management approaches.

Xiotech's storage systems provide a quick and easy option to protect your operating system from unintentional corruption. Simply make a copy of the operating system before the vendor arrives. If the installation goes well, you can delete the copy. If the vendor makes a mistake, then copy the recently made operating system VDisk over the original VDisk and let the vendor start again. This enables quick recovery of failed installations—just like when you apply your own patches and upgrades.