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Cloud providers like to tout how quickly and easily they can scale their environments to meet customer demands, but nothing puts that to the test like cloud storage growth. Even outside of the cloud, storage demands can easily spiral out of control, and there comes a point when it's no longer economical for a provider to keep adding boxes. Anticipating that challenge before launching its cloud services in 2009, Host.net deployed DataCore Software's storage hypervisor, SANsymphony-V, a platform that Host.net credits for providing its customers with 900 days of consecutive, uninterrupted uptime.

In this case-study podcast, SearchCloudProvider.com site editor Jessica Scarpati gets a crash course on storage hypervisors from George Teixeira, CEO of DataCore Software, before diving into the details of Host.net's deployment with Jeffrey Slapp, vice president of virtualization services at the Florida-based cloud and managed services provider.

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Built-in DataCore Storage Hypervisor optimizes storage performance and Business Continuity
http://www.it-director.com/technology/storage/news_release.php?rel=31686

Powered by DataCore, the N-TEC Rapidcore Storage Appliance makes it practical for Small and Mid-size Businesses to virtualize and meet increasing High-Availability and performance demands.

DataCore Software announced that N-TEC, a European system builder and storage vendor, will build and deliver a range of Storage Appliances under the new “DataCore Ready” program, which is designed to help system builders grow their storage business and serve the increasing market demand for easy to use storage solutions. The “DataCore Ready” program makes it easy for system builders to develop turnkey storage systems and appliances based on DataCore’s SANsymphony™-V storage hypervisor. As one of the first partners to announce solutions under this new program, N-TEC has launched a new RapidCore Storage Appliance product line which comes pre-installed with DataCore’s storage hypervisor software. The N-TEC RapidCore Storage Appliance provides small and mid-size businesses ...

In 2012, the phrase “big data” is on everyone’s lips, just like virtualization was five years ago. Also just like virtualization, and cloud computing, there is a lot of hype obscuring the more important discussions around IT challenges, skill sets needed and how to actually build an infrastructure that can support effective big data technologies.

When people waxed poetic about the wonders of virtualization, they failed to recognize the new performance demands and enormous increase in storage capacity required to support server and desktop initiatives. The need for higher performance and continuous availability came at a high price, and clearly, the budget-busting impact subsequently delayed or scuttled many projects.

These problems are now being solved through the adoption of storage virtualization that harnesses industry innovations in performance, drives greater commoditization of expensive equipment, and automates storage management with new technologies like enterprise-wide auto-tiering software.

That same dynamic is again at ...

A Perfect Storm of Possibilities for Storage Virtualization

The survey asked a series of questions about virtualization and its impact on storage. The full report may be found here: http://pages.datacore.com/StateofPrivClouds.html .

According to Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, “If the DataCore survey shows anything, it's that the time is ripe for storage virtualization, both to meet the business objectives associated with virtualization projects and to reduce the risks associated with those initiatives. More companies are virtualizing more servers than ever before, but a notable faction of users – about a third – are underestimating the storage costs associated with server and desktop virtualization projects as well as the storage costs associated with private clouds.

“Rather than simply continuing to expand traditional storage solutions, IT managers would be well advised to consider addressing performance and downtime issues with a storage virtualization solution that enables them to apply a simplified ...

http://gcn.com/articles/2012/05/01/datacore-storage-virtualization-survey-top-concerns.aspx

System downtime and slow application performance related to storage in virtualized environments are the primary concerns of IT administrators surveyed in a new report on the state of private clouds.

IT administrators are more concerned about performance issues and less about the cost of storage than they were a year ago, according to the report, “2012 State of the Private Cloud Survey” by DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization software.

DataCore’s survey, which polled 289 IT administrators in the private and public sectors worldwide, revealed that 63 percent of respondents consider system downtime and slow application performance to be their primary storage-related virtualization concerns, up from 36 percent in 2011. About 10.8 percent of the respondents state they work with government.

IT administrators still consider the rising cost of storage to be a problem with virtualization initiatives, but overall it is declining as a major concern, ...

http://www.it-director.com/technology/storage/news_release.php?rel=31429

DataCore just presented at the “IDC Virtualisation and Cloud Conference” in Dublin. Also at the event the Irish League of Credit Unions, detailed how they successfully used DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor to virtualize, manage and protect the data storage at 500 credit unions.

Later this month on 22 May, DataCore will also join IDC to present at their “Evolution of the Datacentre Conference” in London.

The results of a recent European IDC survey conducted at the end of 2011 showed that 35.8 per cent of European companies continue to invest in their infrastructure despite a flat economic climate. Storage and virtualisation are the cited by IDC as the top investment categories. Wider infrastructure challenges such as Private Cloud, “Big Data,” and storage efficiency, are identified to dramatically change the short-term market adoption of storage virtualisation. Hence the reason why DataCore’s Regional Manager, Rupert Collier, will lead the discussion among ...

http://vmblog.com/archive/2012/04/18/computech-city-selects-datacore-software-s-sansymphony-v-storage-hypervisor-to-manage-virtualized-storage-infrastructure-for-healthcare-it.aspx

Easy to Manage Availability, Performance, Scalability, and Flexibility

CompuTech City now relies on DataCore as the cornerstone of its SaaS healthcare IT model. The company’s EMR solution, with DataCore at the heart of the virtualized environment, currently supports 800 users. At least 100 doctors connect to the system on a daily basis in order to schedule their patients, to review and update their medical records, as well as to bill them.

Onsite synchronous mirroring between Computech City’s DataCore servers provide the high-availability and business continuity demanded by HIT customers. In addition to high-availability, the system delivers improved performance, tremendous storage hardware flexibility, and effortless scalability through a combination of Dell PowerVault MD 1000s and MD 3000s, comprising sixty disks in total – thirty on one side and thirty on the other. They also have a mix of serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) drives.

“The great thing is that with ...

Summary: Enterprise storage company Texas Memory Systems will bundle its solid state RamSan disks with a hypervisor provided by DataCore Software.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/texas-memory-systems-bundles-hypervisor-solid-state-storage/74588

Enterprise storage company Texas Memory Systems launched this morning a line of products that bundle its solid state hardware with a hypervisor provided by DataCore Software.

DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor adds storage management features to Texas Memory’s RamSan disks. The company hopes that bundling the products makes for a simpler, more cost-effective choice for IT administrators. Readers of ZDNet know the benefit of hypervisors: you can squeeze more performance from the same infrastructure. Texas Memory claims a 200 percent boost with its offering, which plugs into the DataCore host directly or through a fabric.

The combo is best suited for server and desktop virtualization projects and should allow VMWare administrators to lower the amount of memory allocated to each guest OS without sacrificing too much performance. By ...

Bundle supercharges virtual environments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/tms_datacore/print.html

TMS flash arrays are being bundled with SANsymphony-V software from DataCore to provide fast flash-based SAN array support to virtualised servers.

The combination of RamSan flash appliances from TMS with the DataCore storage hypervisor software is aimed at VMware servers and accelerating them by adding an automatically tiered flash storage pool on top of their existing disk drive storage. The RamSan hardware, using either SLC or MLC flash, is attached directly to a server host or accessed through a fabric link with users setting up policies for their virtual storage pools.|

TMS says that "when provisioning a virtual machine disk format (VMDK) on a LUN presented to the SANsymphony-V cluster, the virtual guest can utilise internal paging mechanisms with sub-millisecond response times," to the flash while still using the existing disk drive storage.

DataCore's Carlos Carreras, VP for alliances and business development, said: "The TMS ...