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DataCore Software provides storage virtualization solutions that make storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. DataCore™ fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services.
The company's award-winning SANsymphony™, low-cost SANmelody™ disk server software, and new product lines provide unprecedented purchasing flexibility and future-proofing by empowering customers to fulfil portability and price/performance requirements across a broad choice of systems and devices.
Key Customer Benefits.
- Maximize Resources: Leverage the benefits of virtualization (cost savings, consolidation, asset optimization, etc.) in the storage infrastructure.
- Lower Costs: Cost-effective shared storage solution (SAN) for physical and/or virtual environments.
- Higher Availability: Affordable Disaster Recovery (DR) & Business Continuance for customers of all sizes (SMB to Enterprise).
- Ease of Use and IT Simplification: Storage management, consolidation, virtualization, and data migration tools (SANmotion).
- Better Utilization: Dramatically increases disk utilization to greater than 80% when compared to traditional non-virtualized storage which averages less than 25-40%.
- Enhanced Performance and Productivity: Manage more storage with less effort and fewer resources by leveraging automation.
SANmelody™ and SANsymphony™ software converts physical and virtual servers into storage area network (SAN) virtual storage servers, and is the perfect complement to end-to-end server, desktop and application delivery virtualization. Like VMware, Citrix and Microsoft, DataCore is a portable software solution that survives multiple generations of hardware obsolescence.
Key DataCore Software Features.
- Hardware Independent and Portable – DataCore Software runs on your choice of physical or virtual hardware: hardware servers, blade servers or VMs. Users can mix and match hardware or VM based storage servers in their deployments.
- Open – Run on Intel/AMD platforms, blades and on all the major Virtual Server platforms – Citrix XenServer™, Sun, Virtual Iron, VMware, Oracle, and Microsoft. DataCore not only runs on these VM environments, DataCore can support all the major storage platforms and the storage can be consolidated and served to MacOS, Netware, Linux, and the many flavors of UNIX and Microsoft – providing optimum storage resource utilization.
- Feature rich and value-packed – thin provision storage capacity, simplify the migration of data via SANmotion, accelerate storage performance, create high-speed snapshots for fast disk backup and recovery.
- iSCSI and Fibre Channel – networking independence, support for both storage protocols in a single storage server.
- Storage I/O Performance Acceleration – self learning sophisticated caching software
- Auto Grow & Thin Provisioning – presents very large virtual volumes to applications, but only allocates disk blocks dynamically on writes as the application consumes it. Thin provisioning maximizes disk space utilization by serving thin slices of storage from the storage pool as needed and enhances productivity through automation.
- Disk to Disk Snapshots – provides fast point-in-time copies of volumes used in backups, testing and other applications.
- Asynchronous IP Mirroring – adds the ability to replicate storage to remote disaster recovery sites over IP connections.
- Fail-safe Data Protection - Synchronous Network Mirroring (HA) & MPIO supports Auto Fail-over Fail-back for business continuity and fault tolerant data protection.
- “Carry Forward” Value Protection Program – a unique value-add offering for customers to “buy only what they need, when they need it,” that provides the utmost flexibility. Users only pay the difference in cost should they add options, upgrade to higher capacity, or upgrade to larger scale platforms at some future time.
- DataCore Storage Virtualization is the foundation for Total Enterprise Virtualization.
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