Government Entities Benefit from DataCore Storage Virtualization

Virtualization: Have You Overlooked Storage?

If you’re part of a government entity, you are no doubt under increased pressure to save money wherever possible. Server and desktop virtualization have many cost-saving benefits, as you well know, but they leave out one very important piece: your storage. DataCore completes the virtualization picture and enables you to save money by avoiding ‘rip-and-replace’ of existing storage assets and gaining the best utilization and performance of current equipment; while addressing that critical need for keeping your data highly available.

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The list of DataCore customers in government includes city and county governments, as well as metropolitan municipalities, and government agencies. In particular, local governments are turning to virtualization to enhance productivity and maximize cost savings. Most are realizing the benefits of a flexible, multi-vendor approach that combines virtualization from Citrix, Microsoft or VMware on the server-side with DataCore storage virtualization.

Town of South Windsor (Connecticut) and Dinwiddie County Government (Virginia) are great examples of customers realizing the combined benefits of server and storage virtualization and consolidation. They are part of a larger movement selecting DataCore and embracing an end-to-end approach in managing, virtualizing and optimizing their server and storage resources together.

DataCore Solutions help Government users:

• Avoid risks – By preventing storage from becoming a major source of disruptions or a single point of failure.
• Boost Productivity – By speeding up responses (accelerating disk read/write performance by a factor of 2 to 3 times) while eliminating storage-related downtime.
• Contain Costs – By taking advantage of existing drives/arrays and lower cost devices in a SAN to significantly reduce capital expenditures. DataCore enables customers to optimize their utilization rates (typically from 40% to over 80%) and defer spending on capacity expansion because they offer SAN-wide thin provisioning, pooling and low-impact snapshots.
• Protect Investments – By maintaining the same SAN-wide functions across multiple generations of hardware devices and manufacturers. This also enables the movement of DataCore’s solutions to faster, higher performance platforms when desired – in order to increase performance, scalability and overall value.