Intelligent Small Form Factor Storage System by Xyratex

Xyratex Ltd. announced the OneStor
SP1224s, the second member of the company’s versatile OneStor
Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) family. The SP1224s is a 2U, 24-drive
storage system based on 2.5-inch drives and provides 85+ percent
efficient power conversion. Compared with standard 3.5-inch drives,
these Small Form Factor (SFF) drives consume less power with double the
performance density, making the OneStor SP1224s ideal for
transaction-intensive applications. The OneStor ESP family utilizes
common Field Replaceable Units (FRU), Xyratex Intelligent Platform
Manager (IPM) software, and Storage Bridge Bay (SBB) 2.0 compatibility
– enabling server and storage OEMs to reduce both product ramp-up time
and inventory costs for spares.

“Information needs continue to accelerate in terms of scale and
diversity, posing major product management and time-to-market
challenges for storage solution providers," said Richard Villars, vice
president of storage systems research at IDC. "Solutions like Xyratex’s
OneStor platform allow storage OEMs to quickly add new functions like
IOPS-optimized storage with minimal impact on testing/qualification
processes and inventory levels. With such a solution, OEMs can quickly
and efficiently meet customers’ needs for storage architectures that
support power and space efficient data centers."

OneStor SP1224s: Higher Performance Density for Transaction-Intensive Applications
The
OneStor SP1224s is designed to deliver maximum IOPS in the minimum
amount of space. It enables transaction-intensive enterprise
applications such as virtualized environments, IOPS-intensive
databases, online trading and resolution, database redo logs, and file
system metadata to get more performance per rack unit at a dramatically
lower operational cost. This is important for IT executives as they
are required to adhere to tighter service level agreements demanding
faster response times and higher availability. Adding to its
versatility, Xyratex OEMs are able to deploy the SP1224s as part of a
tiered storage infrastructure, or rack them from floor to ceiling for
truly transaction-intensive applications.

“The adoption of Seagate Savvio 2.5-inch drive technology in the
enterprise has created an important transition in the storage
industry,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general
manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. “We’re seeing a growing
demand with enterprise customers for high performance storage systems
that deliver a lower watts per IOPS profile for their growing
application demands within the constrained physical space of their data
center. By incorporating Savvio SFF drives in the new OneStor SP1224s,
we feel Xyratex is well-positioned to meet enterprise customers’
requirements for lower power and higher performance, giving them a
competitive edge in the market.”

OneStor ESP:  The Intelligent Solution for Green Storage
OneStor
ESP features a modular, standards-based architecture designed to meet
diverse enterprise needs by combining Xyratex IPM software, storage
density, power efficiency, and a versatile storage system design. Exclusive to Xyratex, OneStor ESP runs the IPM software, enabling users
to leverage self-healing, fault diagnosis and resolution capabilities,
persistent error logging, and system status monitoring providing new
levels of operational efficiency. In addition, its power efficient,
recycle-oriented product design features individual-drive power
control, enhanced power supply efficiency and advanced adaptive cooling
– all leading to reduced energy consumption. As such, the OneStor
SP1224s offers significant green storage benefits allowing end users to
reduce operating costs for system administration and energy
requirements over the life of the product. 

“As an OEM supplier, it’s imperative that we anticipate market
demands early so our customers are equipped with competitive products
that meet rapidly evolving enterprise business requirements,” said Lisa
Hart, vice president of marketing, Networked Storage Solutions,
Xyratex. “Delivering products that are cost-effective, improve time to
market and offer significant value, continues to be a key objective of
Xyratex. We feel that with today’s product introduction we’ve
accomplished these goals.”

Commitment to Environmental Stewardship
Xyratex
embodies a corporate ethic of environmental stewardship that includes
community involvement, greening of the manufacturing process, a
reduction in energy consumption, and waste recycling programs. The
company actively drives environmental standards that enable data center
managers to monitor and control energy usage, as well as comply with
environmental legislation and standards. This code of ethics is
translated through localized manufacturing that utilizes recycled
packaging and shipping materials and reduces the cost of operations to
ensure that end users minimize energy consumption.

Xyratex Ltd.