Virtual Disks in a Mechanical World - Made fast, reliable, flexible, & cost-effective by software.
Consider the three pieces of computer equipment that give you the most trouble: Printers, Fans, and Disk Drives. DataCore can’t help you with the
first two, but DataCore has some very good solutions for disks. Learn more: Are Your Disk's Hurting? Work-arounds falling short? DataCore Can Help!
What is Virtual Storage?
Virtualization gives you a simple way to manage and look at things that are very complicated – such as complex, physical devices like computers, disk drives or storage arrays. It turns physical devices and their specific complexities into simpler-to-use software representations. What virtual servers have done is turn computers into icons –virtual machines. When you click on the icon, you can then create or deliver a new virtual machine - a representation of a computer. Virtual storage, likewise, turns the disk drives of many and disparate storage devices into an icon –virtual disks. By simply clicking on the icon, you can serve, protect, copy or provision storage. The virtualized approach is one where you are now dealing with a network service to get you the appropriate resources or services out of the available pool. That pool can be servers from a pool of virtual servers, storage from a pool of virtual storage, or printers from a pool of printers – a concept that we all understand.
What all these advances have done is turn independently managed devices into a network accessible service. Clicking an icon on a centralized console replaces the need to physically run around and manually manage and administer many physical devices.
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DataCore - Compelling Advantages
1. Safeguard Your Business:
Cost-effective high-availability enabling application transparent and automated
failover and recovery. Business Continuity
2. Accelerate Your Performance:
Get more work done in the same given time. Greater Performance
3. Future-Proof Your Investments:
Software solutions that survive hardware obsolescence. Save Money
4. Simplify and Optimize Your Infrastructure:
Consolidate and SAN-wide Management. Optimize Storage
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Well behaved SAN-accessible Virtual Disks
In effect, DataCore software takes imperfect and physically confined disk storage and makes it appear to needy computers as well behaved SAN-accessible virtual disks that are faster, more reliable, and easier to back up, maintain and upgrade than the real thing. Furthermore, it hides any pain associated with obsoleting hardware For this reason, the software is generally referred to as storage virtualization.
What about Performance?
Now you may have some preconceived notions about overhead and performance penalties for virtualization. Let’s be clear that the opposite is true with DataCore’s software.
You’ll find that it actually improves the response time from your disks through intelligent high-speed caching built right into the products.
Find out more: Accelerate Your Performance with DataCore
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DataCore Software: Solving Real-World Storage Challenges
 
DataCore Delivers Compelling Value: Fullest Use, Highest Availability, Fastest Performance
"DataCore makes it simple for users to virtualize their disks, achieve full utilization of their storage investment, enhance performance and attain the highest levels of availability and data protection," states George Teixeira, CEO and President, DataCore Software. "DataCore's manufacturer-independent approach to delivering powerful SAN-wide features enables any vendors storage to no longer be constrained by hardware limitations and short lifecycles - making it much easier to adapt to change and deploy, protect and migrate storage along with virtual servers, desktops and applications." |
DataCore Software: San-wide Features and Solutions
Over the last 10 years, DataCore has developed and shrink-wrapped a rich set of functions in software for addressing these mechanical constraints in a manufacturer-independent way that enhances the speed, resiliency and utility of all the popular disk storage manufacturers. As importantly, DataCore’s software operates across storage area networks (SANs) and is centrally managed without regard to device model or disk interfaces. Thousands of installations across the globe speak for the software’s scalability and robustness. Installations range from Petabyte disk farms to small workgroups.
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