White Papers
The white papers below will help you to better understand technical aspects of DataCore solutions. Some provide more detailed descriptions of specific use cases, while others drill down on the underlying technology.
| The Storage Side of Private CloudsKeeping it Light and Inexpensive
In the past 2 to 3 years, the storage side of private clouds has been weighed down by heavy iron, big spending and a lot of complexity. Throughout this white paper you’ll get acquainted with recent software developments and practices which reshape storage into a far more appealing and inexpensive component of your next generation IT environment
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| Automated Storage TieringIntelligent tradeoffs between cost and performance
The science of automated storage tiering distills down to monitoring I/O behavior, determining frequency of use, then dynamically moving blocks of information to the most suitable class or tier of storage device. DataCore™ SANsymphony™-V software automatically manages your blocks to best allocate your storage.
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| STAR HA SolutionIncreasing the Resiliency and Performance of Windows Server Farms While Keeping the Data on Your Server Drives
In this white paper, we describe a hybrid solution which retains the familiarity, comfort and economics of keeping data distributed on server disk drives, while at the same time offering many of the centralized and advanced services made possible by a SAN. 
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| IDC WhitepaperAchieving the Full Business Value of Virtualization with a Scalable Software-based Storage Virtualization Solution.Are you struggling with how to choose the right storage virtualization solution, or just looking to achieve a scalable software-based storage virtualization solution that fits your budget?
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| ESG SANsymphony-V White PaperSANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software: Music to the Ears of Server Virtualization Users Stalled by Storage Challenges
With
server virtualization ubiquity as a foregone conclusion, the next
logical areas to investigate are those which hinder its progress.
Storage, at least storage as it has been done for decades, is a
significant obstacle that is slowing or stalling the successful and
optimal advance of IT.
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| How to Sell Storage Virtualization to the CIOSell Compelling Benefits and Business Value
How do you get CIOs to jump on the storage virtualization bandwagon if they’re not on it already? Use these five compelling points to persuade them that storage virtualization is right for their organization:
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| Benchmarking a Scalable and Highly Available Architecture for Virtual DesktopsA $32 hardware cost for Virtual Desktop configuration
This number is achieved using a configuration with dual node, cross-mirrored, High Availability storage. In comparison to previously published reports, which tout the storage infrastructure costs alone of VDI at from fifty to several hundred dollars per virtual machine, the significance of the data becomes self evident. In this report, storage hardware costs become inconsequential.
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| Capacity Management's Sweet NotesStorage Virtualization for Rock Stars Webinar Series, Part 2
This paper examines the role of storage virtualization as an enabler of effective capacity management from an architectural, operational and financial standpoint. And examines some of the features of storage virtualization such as Dynamic Storage Pooling, Thin-Provisioning & more.
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| Hitting the Perfect Chord in Storage EfficiencyStorage Virtualization for Rock Stars Webinar Series, Part 1
Written by Jon Toigo, Chairman of The Data Management Institute LLC. This paper introduces storage virtualization and surveys the challenges that it can help to solve in the critical areas of engineering, operational and financial efficiency.
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| DataCore Virtualization SurveyThe State of Virtualization and Clouds and the Impact of Storage
In order to better understand the current storage virtualization environment, DataCore Software conducted an online survey in early 2011. These are the results of the survey which asked questions about how companies have virtualized, used storage hardware, the cloud, and more.
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| Virtualized SANs for Virtualized ServersStorage Virtualization Finds Its Mojo in the Server Consolidation Market
DataCore has made it easy for either an IT department or an IT integration partner to set up a SAN that can serve physical or virtual machines (VMs). What’s more, the software can run within a physical environment, such as a blade server, or in many of the top VM environments, including VMware, Xen, Microsoft and others.
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| Virtualize Top to Bottom - Or Suffer the Pitfalls of Going HalfwayIntelligent tradeoffs between cost and performance
Your server consolidation project is over, so why aren’t you celebrating? Face it; discomforts will remain until you finish the job by virtualizing your storage.
An Opinion Piece by George Teixeira, DataCore President, CEO and co-founder.
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| Uninterrupted Access to Cluster Shared Volumes (CSVs)Synchronously Mirrored Across Metropolitan Hot Sites
In this paper you will learn how DataCore Software solves a longstanding stumbling block to clustered systems spread across metropolitan sites by providing uninterrupted access to the CSV despite the many technical and environmental conditions that conspire to disrupt it.
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| Top 10 SAN Tips & Lessons learned for VirtualizationLearn what our most experiences users discovered about Virtualization.
DataCore Software has published key findings from a series of global user group roundtables in which DataCore data center users identified key lessons they learned in working with DataCore’s products for storage control, storage management and storage consolidation.
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| Storage for KeepsEnduring Virtualization, Usability and Services for your Storage Resources
DataCore's storage virtualization software survives the replacement and failure of storage devices by unifying your physical storage into an easily manageable general resource that can be efficiently divided, allocated, and assigned capacity, performance, availability and other quality of service characteristics.
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| Solving the Data Center's Next Big ProblemLearn how to be successful in your virtualization projects.
Today, the “Big Problem” in virtualization projects is Storage, and because of that enterprises have learned some hard lessons. They are being sold forklift upgrades of their storage infrastructure and vendor-specific virtualization strategies to support virtualized server and desktop infrastructures.
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| An IDC ViewpointRemoving Storage-Related Barriers to Server and Desktop Virtualization
Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
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| Internet Research Group PaperStorage Virtualization: A Cornerstone of Affordable Business Continuity
In this brief we’ll review what’s going on with the “business continuity journey” every IT organization faces, and discuss how device-independent storage virtualization software not only makes business continuity more affordable, but offers other cost savings and can have performance advantages as well.
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| ESG Lab Validation Report: SANsymphony-VCompelling Storage Virtualization Software
This ESG Lab Validation documents the results of hands on testing of DataCore SANsymphony-V R8 Storage Virtualization Software. The goal was assessing the value of infrastructure-wide storage virtualization including centralized management, ease of use, capacity efficiency, data mobility, and performance.
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| Dynamic Storage Mobility for Hyper-VMigrating VHD LUNs between Storage Devices without Downtime
DataCore™ SANsymphony™-V software migrates VHD LUNs non-disruptively behind the scenes and later reclaims the disk space from the decommissioned location. Transparent virtual LUN migration is one of several device-independent functions provided by SANsymphony™-V for the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V platform.
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| Serious about High Availability?Eliminate Storage-related Downtime, Not Just Hardware Failures
If you are serious about high availability, look for storage virtualization software that provides the ability to stretch the two mirrored locations, potentially several kilometers apart yet still present mirrored virtual disks to applications as if they were single, high-performance, multi-ported drives.
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