As part of our company philosophy as an IT engineering firm concerned first with quality and service, we internally test and determine for ourselves if a particular service offering is sound.  We are a rubber-on-the-road organization, and are often the last of a line of guys who have to make it work.

From a strategic point, we also are positioning our company to take advantage of our broad areas of expertise, and in doing so realize that we have the experience now to assist business entities to successfully navigate the intersection of policy and technology.  For the most part, this effort involves initial and ongoing security audits, as well as the full gamut of data reliability, with its associated concerns of storage, backup, archiving as well as continuity of business and data compliancy.

A large part of that equation is data storage, as it plays into many aspects of the data reliability statement.  As a company, we have premier partners supplying parts of that offering, but were in need of a business partner capable of addressing the ‘volume disk’ aspects and associated utility modules.

Until we found PillarData, our thoughts were that disk storage was dominated by old line standard system solutions, often just repackaged.  New features were just pressed onto existing systems and not part of the core.  Also, we found that these solutions were not scalable or capable of using different size disks, required too much time of an expensive 3-party trained engineer to fix, configure and reconfigure and were not respective of the data stored or the time / usage of the data.  Also we were constantly frustrated by the inefficiency of capacity on storage disk structures and the decline in performance as capacity demands increased.  In short, they were too expensive and did not integrate into our quality of solutions, nor most importantly, they did they fit within our emerging MSP platform.

With PillarData, we have a partner who did not grow organically, but sprung full grown from the wallet of Larry Ellison, completely mature, with the goal of squeezing the waste out of disk storage by building in a quality of service model from the beginning; delivering a truly simple customer service and configurable system, with smart disk trays; and a clear plan to keep performance matched with capacity.  As well, Pillar integrates into our MWT MSP NOC Dashboard, so we can continue to offer 24x7 monitoring and management.

We are excited about this partnership because we believe in the value it brings to our customers and to our company mission.