DataCore is the perfect complement
to your Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Servers

“Storage virtualization software, such as DataCore Software’s offerings, plays a key role when combined with Microsoft’s virtualization solutions helping companies large and small to ‘Get Virtual Now’”
- David Greschler, director of integrated virtualization strategy, Microsoft Corp.
DataCore Joins Microsoft “Get Virtual Now” Launch

Microsoft Virtualization Pavilion Showcases DataCore's Advanced Site Recovery Software

DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization, is being featured within the Microsoft Tech-Ed Virtualization pavilion. DataCore will showcase its ground-breaking Advanced Site Recovery (ASR) solution for virtual and physical IT infrastructures. Unlike other site recovery approaches that are limited to a specific vendor’s virtual machine recovery, DataCore ASR enables both physical and virtual servers to be protected across multiple sites. The combination of DataCore ASR and Microsoft Hyper-V™/ Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Failover and Clustering features enables businesses to embrace "real-world" Distributed Disaster Recovery (D-DR) – allowing organizations to cost-effectively spread disaster recovery (DR) responsibilities across several smaller sites.
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Virtualize Top to Bottom - DataCore CEO Opinion Paper
Taneja Group Analyst Paper: DataCore - The Perfect Complement to Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!

"Virtual servers and virtual storage both seek to optimize the utilization of common resources (CPUs and Disks) and stress the flexibility to readily redeploy these resources (servers and storage) when and where they are needed."

Read the complete white paper: Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!

Server and Storage Virtualization software technologies allow users to manage more with less. Users can treat their hardware as commodities and utilize that hardware at levels never previously achieved.

• Increases utilization rates up to 80% or more
• Reduces Provisioning times for new applications from days to minutes 
• Accelerates Response times for change requests, time is money
• Eliminates disruptions for upgrades and hardware maintenance

DataCore Storage Virtualization Enhances Server Virtualization

DataCore's storage virtualization software insulates your virtual server environments from the adds , moves and changes in the physical disk configuration. DataCore's application transparent high-availabilty and auto failover and failback capabilities slash downtime while protecting your critical business data. DataCore's ability to boost the performance of the disk subsystems helps overcome the sluggishness\of concentrated I/O workloads.

DataCore: Consolidates Data Center Resources - 'Go Green' + Lower Operating Costs
Virtual server and virtual storage go hand in hand in managing data center infrastructures more efficiently. Consolidating physical server and storage resources with DataCore and virtual servers improves productivity while reducing data center floor space, power consumption and CO2 emissions. Studies show that customers who deploy Thin Provisioning and Thin Replication technologies such as those found in DataCore's SANmelody and SANsymphony can take a data center capacity requirements from 10TB down to 4TB. On average just one terabyte of capacity is needed for every 2.5 terabytes required with traditional storage arrays. These Thin technologies can reduce necessary disk capacity and the associated carbon footprint by as much as 60% as compared with traditional fat storage.

DataCore: Accelerates Performance and Maximizes Cost Savings
Virtual servers impact I/O performance, therefore having faster storage helps improve overall performance. DataCore's advanced self learning adaptive cache dramatically improves performance, often by a factor of 2 or more times, by optimally responding to I/O requests at memory speeds versus slower disk access speeds. DataCore SANsymphony also supports storage domains which can supply guaranteed quality of services and performance levels to virtual machines. Virtual servers are inefficient storage consumers. DataCore maximizes cost savings by optimizing storage utilization and supporting storage tiers enabling users to utilize the most cost effective storage where needed, when needed.

DataCore: Makes Continuous Data Availability & Continuous Data Protection Practical
Virtual servers suffer from the "all the eggs in one basket" scenario and therefore highly available shared storage is required. DataCore supports high-availability fail-safe shared storage to ensure business continuity for virtual server platforms. Users can also build on virtual server HA by taking fast disk snapshots of virtual machines enabling rapid recovery of virtual machines when problems arise. These disk snapshot images can be used to easily validate backup systems and provide cost-effective high availability for all applications. In addition, DataCore Traveller is a continuous data protection (CDP) solution that enables users to go back in time and recover the state of virtual machines, files and disk storage just as it appeared prior to disruptions or data corruption.

DataCore: Revolutionizes Server and Storage Management
Rapidly and efficiently provisioning virtual machines and their storage from a central management console is another key requirement to meeting user's changing needs. DataCore's virtual storage makes it simple to allocate storage and thin provision space as needed where needed. Users can easily deploy or backup virtual machines from the DataCore SAN by doing a Boot from SAN or using Traveller CDP or fast disk to disk snapshots for backups. Users also can rapidly provisioning VMware virtual machines from a centrally-stored golden image or test patches and roll-out multiple virtual machines in minutes.

DataCore: Eliminates Waste, Optimizes Utilization, Simplifies Provisioning
Virtual servers allocate disk capacity per virtual machine and create templates that reserve disk capacity that may or may not ever be consumed. DataCore's thin provisioned storage for makes it efficient and easy to create volumes for any number of virtual servers (VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer,etc.) without wasting storage capacity and best of all it ensures that any unused storage resources are available to any application or OS.

DataCore: Simplifies Migration and Enables Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Virtual infrastructures respond to change by allowing motion and migration of key resources. In addition to live migration of virtual machines users can implement DataCore SANmotion for simple data migration across the SAN. Virtual servers make it easier to do disaster recovery but they still require storage that supports synchronous mirroring, thin replication and asynchronous replication in order to implement cost effective disaster recovery plan.