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DataCore Delivers Affordable, Shared, High Availability Virtual Storage to Oracle VM Server Virtualization Environments
SANmelody and SANsymphony Storage Virtualization Help Customers Clear Pricey Storage Barrier to VMware, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft, Virtual Iron, and Now Oracle, Server Virtualization
DataCore Software announced that both its SANmelody™ and SANsymphony™ solutions provide shared, auto-failover, high availability, virtual SAN storage for Oracle Virtual Machines (VMs). With this announcement, the leading provider of hardware independent storage virtualization solutions adds Oracle to the many server virtualization flavors customers can choose from to get started with server virtualization, supported by an affordable, DataCore™ virtual SAN. These DataCore solutions, featuring advanced storage management, fast disk I/O performance acceleration, cost-effective thin provisioning, SANmotion data migration, remote site disaster recover (DR) and auto-recovery high availability (HA), overcome for many the high cost storage barrier to achieving server virtualization benefits.
“Oracle VM may be free, but even that price isn’t low enough if the high cost and complexity of the SAN storage required to support it puts it right back out of reach,” said George Teixeira, president and CEO, DataCore Software Corporation. “DataCore solves that problem with storage virtualization solutions – priced from $1,000 – that can run on virtually any hardware or on a VM itself, and can easily be upgraded as needed to meet customer lifecycle needs. DataCore makes it simple and affordable to achieve fault tolerant SAN data protection and high availability, a must-have to move and migrate virtual machines and protect them from the ‘many eggs in one basket’ problem inherent in server consolidation.”
DataCore storage virtualization solutions convert standard Intel/AMD servers or virtual machines (VMs) into fully capable storage servers that virtualize disks and serve them over existing networks to application servers. They are simple to operate, take only minutes to install, and let users cost-effectively optimize, manage and protect data storage and disk space. DataCore storage virtualization solutions are priced easily within reach of small and midsize enterprises, and scale affordably to meet the needs of even the most storage-intensive, Fortune 1000 data centers.
DataCore's new entry level iSCSI SAN solution bundle:
The Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) Acceleration SAN Bundle for Small Business (SMB): SANmelody-based virtual iSCSI SAN software supporting multiple terabyte thin provisioning storage pools, SANmotion and self-learning caching algorithms for performance acceleration, all priced from $1,000. A 30 day trial is available at: www.datacore.com/download.asp.
DataCore Software's Affordable Line of Feature-Packed SAN Virtualization Solutions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
DataCore Software has developed a series of Feature-Packaged Virtual Storage Solutions that run on Oracle VM,VMware, Microsoft VS, SUN VM, Virtual Iron and Citrix XenServer virtualization platforms, or Intel/AMD based hardware servers and blades. DataCore's Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions support capacities ranging from 2TB to 32TB and start from $4,500. All the Feature-Packed solutions include auto-allocating thin provisioning storage support, SANmotion data migration technology, storage performance acceleration caching software, snapshots for fast disk backups, auto failover and auto recovery data protection via synchronous network mirroring as well as remote site IP mirror replication for disaster recovery. These solutions provide the simplest and most affordable way on the market to get started fully realizing the cost savings and productivity benefits of a full-featured, virtual SAN that can scale and survive hardware obsolescence.
"These feature-packed hardware independent software solutions truly pack a punch," exclaimed George Teixeira, president and CEO, DataCore Software. "This announcement follows the recent release of a new VM Starter SAN and an enhanced Virtual Infrastructure Foundation PLUS package. The logical Feature-Packed Solutions, which include automated high availability for fail-safe data protection as well as remote site disaster recovery - together in one package. They can thin provision storage capacity, migrate data via SANmotion, accelerate storage performance, and create high-speed disk copies for fast disk backup and recovery. Best of all DataCore is portable software - enabling these solutions to survive over multiple generations of hardware platforms."
Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions - Explained
With these Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions, the major features and functions of SANmelody have been bundled together - or 'Feature-Packed' - making these offerings easy-to-use and cost effective. Like all DataCore solutions, these are portable software solutions, which run on a server that can even be a virtual machine (VM). The solutions pool storage (of all kinds) into a storage area network (SAN), enabling system and network administrators to slice up and serve that storage to their servers as they like. Moreover, the Feature-Packed Solutions automate capacity allocation and management as well as other administrative tasks for maximum utilization and efficiency. Above all they protect data, while bringing to an organization's storage infrastructure the same kind of benefits they get from VMware in regards to servers.
"These solutions are an incredible value for the money," said Ken Celecia, director, Fairway Consulting Group. "They bring enterprise-class functionality down to an affordable level that any size business can deploy. Organizations get a SAN delivering high availability data protection, automatic failover, plus remote site disaster recovery - all in one package. Moreover, enterprises can upgrade from one DataCore product to another, simply by paying the cost difference. It is that simple. The solutions are inexpensive, easy-to-administer and they can grow as needs change."
Pricing and Availability
DataCore's Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions support a range of capacity - 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 8TB, 16TB and 32TB, and are available immediately. All Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions can also be easily upgraded to fully support Fibre Channel connections - giving companies the ultimate flexibility in choice of network, without requiring the customer to pay for the choice in advance. To learn more visit: http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelody_buy.asp.
