type private industry data storage fate acquired by oracle successor oracle corporation founded 2001 defunct july 18 2011 2011 07 18 headquarters san jose california key people mike workman ceo products axiom 600 axiom 600e axiomone number of employees 325 website www.pillardata.com pillar data systems a computer data storage company headquartered in san jose california developed midrange and enterprise 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 . 1 history edit 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 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 . 2 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 . 1 pillar directly competed against emc corporation hitachi data systems netapp 3par isilon coraid bluearc and compellent technologies in the midrange storage hardware industry . 3 pillar had partnerships with symantec falconstor and 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 . 4 the press noted that workman did not appear at the announcement event . 5 the acquisition took effect on july 18 2011 . 6 references edit a b pillar axiom 600 . pillar data web site . archived from the original on august 10 2011 . retrieved may 28 2013 . brian fonseca june 8 2005 . ellison backed pillar data systems set to launch . eweek . retrieved may 28 2013 . chris mellor april 26 2011 . pillar pillages spc 1 benchmark er where is emc . the register . retrieved august 29 2013 . oracle buying ellison backed pillar data . the register . june 29 2011 . retrieved may 28 2013 . chris mellor july 4 2011 . when oracle bought pillar for zilch is pillar s fate its opportunity . the register . retrieved august 29 2013 . company overview . pillar data systems . 2011 . archived from the original on august 10 2011 . retrieved may 28 2013 . on july 18 2011 oracle completed the acquisition of pillar data systems . external links edit pillar data systems website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pillar data systems & oldid 738703503 categories companies established in 2001computer companies of the united statescompanies based in san jose californiastorage area network companiescomputer storage companiesoracle acquisitions navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 15 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view