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{{Infobox company
| name = Pillar Data Systems
| logo = pillardatasystems logo.png
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| foundation = 2001
| fate = Acquired by Oracle
| successor = [[Oracle Corporation]]
| defunct = {{End date|2011|07|18}}
| location = [[San Jose, California]]
| industry = [[data storage device|Data Storage]]
| products = Axiom 600, Axiom 600e, AxiomOne
| key_people = Mike Workman, [[Chief executive officer|CEO]]
| num_employees = 325
| homepage = [http://www.pillardata.com/ www.pillardata.com]
}}

'''Pillar Data Systems''', a [[computer data storage]] company headquartered in [[San Jose, California]], developed midrange and enterprise [[Network-attached storage|network storage]] systems. Pillar Data employed 325 people and sold its products to organizations in the financial services, healthcare, government and legal industries. Its primary product-offering was the Axiom platform.<ref name="axiom">{{cite web |title= Pillar Axiom 600 |url= http://www.pillardata.com/products/axiom600/ |work= Pillar Data web site |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110810195638/http://www.pillardata.com/products/axiom600/ |archivedate= August 10, 2011 |accessdate= May 28, 2013 }}</ref>

==History==
Formerly Digital Appliance Storage Systems Israel, Pillar Data Systems was created in July 2001 with funding from Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of [[Larry Ellison]], founder and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]] of [[Oracle Corporation]].
[[University of California Berkeley]] and [[Stanford University]] alumnus Mike Workman founded and later became CEO and chairman of the company. By 2005, it had over $150 million in financing.<ref>{{Cite news |publisher= [[eWeek]] |author= Brian Fonseca |date= June 8, 2005 |url= http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/EllisonBacked-Pillar-Data-Systems-Set-to-Launch/ |title= Ellison-Backed Pillar Data Systems Set to Launch |accessdate= May 28, 2013 }}</ref>

The Pillar Axiom product integrated [[storage area networks]] (SAN) and [[network-attached storage]] (NAS), supporting management of [[tiered storage]] on one platform.
Axiom supported any combination of [[iSCSI]] SAN, [[Fibre Channel]] SAN or [[Network File System]] (NFS) NAS. Pillar also offered products for [[Microsoft Exchange Server]], [[Oracle Database]], OracleVM, and [[VMware]] data.<ref name="axiom" />

Pillar directly competed against [[EMC Corporation]], [[Hitachi Data Systems]], [[NetApp]], [[3PAR]], [[Isilon]], [[Coraid]], [[BlueArc]] and [[Compellent Technologies]] in the midrange-storage hardware-industry.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Pillar pillages SPC-1 benchmark: Er, where is EMC? |author= Chris Mellor |date= April 26, 2011 |work= The Register |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/26/pillars_spc_1_result/ |accessdate= August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
Pillar had partnerships with [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]], [[FalconStor]], and [[Data Domain (corporation)|Data Domain]] for data de-duplication. Pillar also had partnerships with Oracle Corporation and with VMware.

Oracle announced on June 29, 2011, that it would acquire Pillar Data.
The acquisition was done with no up-front payment, since Pillar owed Ellison and his affiliates $544 million.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Oracle buying Ellison-backed Pillar Data |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/oracle_buying_pillar/ |work= The Register |date= June 29, 2011 |accessdate= May 28, 2013 }}</ref>
The press noted that Workman did not appear at the announcement event.<ref>{{Cite news |title= When Oracle bought Pillar for £zilch: Is Pillar's fate its opportunity? |author= Chris Mellor |date= July 4, 2011 |work= The Register |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/04/oracle_pillar_requiem_and_redemption/ |accessdate= August 29, 2013 }}</ref>
The acquisition took effect on July 18, 2011.<ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.pillardata.com/about-pillar/company-overview/
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110810190133/http://www.pillardata.com/about-pillar/company-overview/
|title = Company Overview
|year = 2011
|publisher = Pillar Data Systems
|accessdate = May 28, 2013 |archivedate= August 10, 2011
|quote = On July 18, 2011, Oracle completed the acquisition of Pillar Data Systems.
}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.pillardata.com/ Pillar Data Systems official website]

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[[Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States]]
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[[Category:Oracle acquisitions]]

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