The Cloverleaf iSNTM System provides a very comprehensive suite of storage management functionality including heterogeneous consolidation, data protection, data acceleration, high availability, data security and centralized management. This breadth of capability enables the Company to penetrate target data centers by solving the most pressing, high value problems today with a subset of the iSN's functionality. Once integrated into the data center environment, the iSN is well positioned to meet additional end user needs in the future. The iSN also allows end users to deploy gradually, starting in a departmental or second-tier application and then to migrate it over time to first tier storage.
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General
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Support for heterogeneous environments which enables true consolidation and flexibility
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Tiered Storage Management
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Linear Scalability enables the gradual connection of resources
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Ease of Management with full consolidation of both storage capacity and bandwidth, which reduces the demand for highly qualified management personnel and improves utilization of existing resources |
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Consolidation
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Block and File Services over FC and Gb
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Any application (Block, File) can be allocated on any host (Unix, Windows, Linux)
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Any application can be connected to any network (FC, GbE)
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Any data can be allocated on any mix of devices (SAN, NAS)
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Block and File volumes can grow seamlessly (thin provisioning with sparse volumes) |
Data Protection
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Multiple Snapshots: Instantaneous creation, 16K snapshots/CC
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Stealth backup: Non-disruptive, background backup
- Fast recovery (from Snapshot or Backup)
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Replication and mirroring (local)
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Backup management from the Management Station or Enterprise Console (third-party backup software)
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Data Acceleration
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In-band data flow control
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Collision avoidance on shared access
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Very efficient caching
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Minimal latency
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Hot relocation and defragmentation
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High Availability
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Full hardware redundancy
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Seamless pair-wise takeover and takeback
- Graceful degradation: Active-active load balancing
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Application-level reliability support
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Support for high availability of SAN and NAS storage devices |
Data Security
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Management Features
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Single point of management
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Full command & control: Strict enforcement of administrator policy
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Policy-based automation
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Online traffic control
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Interface to enterprise management systems via SNMP
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Technology independent
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Vendor neutral
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