DataCore is the perfect complement to VMware Virtual Servers.
Taneja Group Analyst Paper: DataCore - The Perfect Complement to Virtual Servers
Now you can have a virtualized and thinly-provisioned storage area network (SAN) in a total virtual server and hardware-independent environment, as DataCore has released its SANmelody and SANsymphony products as virtual machines. Read the full article.
Virtual Servers and Virtual Storage Make Sense!
"Virtual infrastructures attain a new level with DataCore incorporating storage and SANs. The combination of VMware and DataCore maximizes flexibility, cost savings and our ability to rapidly deploy server and disks."
- Ferdinand Glaremin of LWL.
While there are significant differences between virtual servers and virtual storage, both must work together and both attack exactly the same fundamental problem - making the many work as simply as one.
"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."
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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
Running DataCore Software storage virtualization solutions on a Virtual Machine (VM)
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DataCore Software Joins VMware as a Technology Software Alliance Partner
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DataCore optimizes and supports the interoperability of our SANsymphony and SANmelody software with VMware software to enhance performance and functionality and assure the best customer experience. As a Technology Software Alliance partner, DataCore gains additional access to software, technology support and access to VMware software technical consultation and training.
"The products work hand-in-hand to accelerate the time it takes to allocate and assign systems and storage," said Kosmas Schütz, Director of Information Systems, Munich's Schwabing Hospital. "With a small staff, it makes it possible to manage a lot of user storage and hundreds of servers in our dynamic environment. Together, VMware ESX software and DataCore virtual storage reduce workloads on administrators, ease server provisioning and automate serving disk capacity to users and applications. "
VMware and DataCore Test Results
TPI Technologies conducts extensive usability and evaluation tests:
"We feel that using Vmware and DataCore together simplifies management and significantly lowers the cost of hardware. Allocating and reallocating computer and storage resources to various application workloads produced excellent results. DataCore's product produced a powerful set of management improvements that promise to contribute increased flexibility and more efficient utilization of IT resources to end users."
- Jeremy Evans, Chief Storage Engineer, TPI Technologies, Inc.
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