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Press Room | Industry Analysts Reports
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IDC Viewpoint:
IDC Viewpoint Report: Removing storage-Related Barriers to Server and Desktop Virtualization
Extending Virtualization to the SAN. This IDC Viewpoint discusses an alternative to costly investments in high-end storage systems. It proposes using storage virtualization software to create scalable, robust SANs using equipment already in place. This hardware-independent approach complements server and desktop virtualization without compromising availability, speed, or project schedules. Properly implemented, value-added functions like replication and snapshots can be used in a heterogeneous storage environment across storage model and manufacturer boundaries. Just as importantly, it can significantly lower capital and operational expenditure for physical and virtual environments alike, making such transitional initiatives viable.
Storage Switzerland
“DataCore is one of a few vendors that is answering user demand to do more with less. With solutions like this you can not only drive down capital [CapEX] costs while improving reliability you can also improve administrator and operational [OpEX] efficiency by centralizing storage operations to a single platform,” states Crump. See Article.
Virtualization is the Alternative to 'Rip and Replace' for Upgrading Storage
Virtual Storage Infrastructure – Can Software Take Center Stage?
We’ve been conditioned to think of infrastructure as hardware. Is it time to rethink?
Serious About High Availability?
Solutions like DataCore enable non-stop data access using commodity-priced storage devices from vendors of your choosing. Each side of the mirror can use different types of storage; they need not be from the same supplier. In fact, some of the solutions can reconfigure the equipment that you already have to eliminate storage downtime.
“VMware customers are demanding that the many storage-related interruptions they face while making metro-wide, virtual machine migration, failover and load balancing be eliminated. Solutions like those offered by DataCore are addressing these interruptions and are critical to making these tasks practical,” said George Crump, founder and senior analyst at Storage Switzerland.
Enterprise Management Associates
DataCore is offering new SAN software starter packages for small and medium sized organizations that are priced under $10,000...
"I'm very excited about the DataCore announcement. The SMB area can now enjoy the reliability and security of their data, previously only available to businesses with large storage budgets," stated Curtis Breville, senior analyst in storage management at Enterprise Management Associates.
Bloor Research:
DataCore's 'solid state SANs' with mega-caches to make storage virtualisation performance soar
The 451 Group:
The 451's Dan Kusnetzky on DataCore's Advanced Site Recovery Software
The concept of automated failover among multiple sites isn't brand new, especially in the mainframe world, pointed out 451 Group vice president of research operations Dan Kusnetzky. "What's new is this capability becoming available on industry-standard hardware with industry-standard microprocessors," he said. All of that has its roots in server virtualization, but "as we move to a virtualized environment it's critical to consider storage virtualization, as well as ways to do access virtualization, so end users don't necessarily know where the application and data store they're talking to are located."
Storage virtualization stalwart DataCore reels in $30m funding round
"DataCore has taken in $30m in VC funding from Insight Venture Partners and Updata Partners. The company's recent strategy to tap into server virtualization appears to be paying dividends. It's adding 300 customers a quarter, and hopes to finish 2008 with 5,000 in total...DataCore attributes its recent renaissance to its decision to work directly with server virtualization resellers instead of selling through more traditional storage channels DataCore has persevered through the tough times to get where it is today, but all that hard work now appears to be paying off"
IDC:
DataCore Software debuts Advanced Site Recovery for physical and virtual disaster recovery
IDC's Rick Villars and TechTarget's Beth Pariseau discuss DataCore's Advanced Site Recovery Article - Podcast
Product Flash: DataCore Takes Virtualization to the Next Level
This IDC Flash discusses the announcement by DataCore Software of the availability of VM Starter SAN that runs on VMware, Sun, Oracle, Virtual Iron, Microsoft, and Citrix XenServer virtualization platforms. This is a new, unique offering that simplifies server consolidation, especially in remote offices, and business continuity.
"opens up an opportunity to increase DataCore's revenue by capturing the segment of the market that has not been able to afford such a solution as well as improves DataCore's market share from where it is currently (with an estimated market share of
2.5% for 2007)."
Jon William Toigo:
Enterprise Systems journal: DataCore Has Reason to Celebrate
"I have yet to find an unhappy customer using their stuff."
"At the end of the day, DataCore Software, once dismissed by the storage industry analyst community, is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S. market, capitalizing on a mixture of trends ranging from the current fascination with server virtualization and storage thin provisioning (which they pioneered), to a shift in buyer habits that favor software over proprietary hardware and iSCSI over Fibre Channel"
"DataCore Software...I see their software today as offering even greater value in the context of the recessionary economy."
- Jon William Toigo
Info-Tech Research Group
John Sloan, a senior research analyst specializing in infrastructure, consolidation, servers and storage says "DataCore's storage virtualization solutions bode well in terms of opportunities for the channel".
Storage I/O
"DataCore's software approach to storage virtualization has put this vendor on the map for all sizes of enterprises that rely on multiple brands of storage hardware", observed Greg Schulz, senior analyst and founder at Storage I/O.
Taneja Group:
DataCore storage virtualization and SAN solutions run 'hardware-free' on virtual machines
According to Arun Taneja, Founder, president and consulting analyst of the Taneja Group, "What DataCore has done here by putting DataCore virtual storage servers on virtual machines is a subtle way of further emphasizing that its hardware independent software solutions can go places and do things that hardware-based solutions can't because of their physicality and built-in limitations on the other devices and systems with which they will work. This will not be lost on the server virtualization players, like VMware, Microsoft and Xensource, and is likely to spur opportunities for technical and commercial collaboration with DataCore."
Taneja Analyst Group: The Storage Challenged Virtual Enterprise: The 5 Top Storage Challenges Confronting Virtual Server Deployments ( includes a Profile of SANsymphony 6.0 ) Download White Paper.
Ideas International:
Storage Is a Key Aspect of Server Virtualization
"While most vendors at VMworld were understandably rushing to support VMware, DataCore announced support for server virtualization platforms Xensource and Microsoft Virtual Iron in addition to VMware. DataCore's SANsymphony, Traveller, and SANmelody products allow virtual SAN storage servers to be created on VMs. Such a capability provides an extra level of integration and collaboration between server and storage virtualization"
The Clipper Group:
DataCore Revolutionizes Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
"DataCore has brought to the market a new class of disaster recovery and business continuity products under its Virtual Infrastructure Foundation," said Dianne McAdam, Director, Enterprise Information Assurance, Clipper Group. "These offerings provide a rich set of functions at a very affordable price for the small to medium sized business."
Datacenter Infrastructure Group:
Aligning Network-Based Storage Virtualization With Business Needs
(Jerome Wendt)
"DataCore's SAN Domains begin to change the focus of the conversation
from how companies manage their storage to how they manage their
enterprise."
DataCore Software's SANsymphony 6.0's inclusion of SAN Domains into its
architecture takes network-based storage virtualization to a new level
in providing users with greater control to regulate service levels and
manage their performance and resource usage. This capability now puts
network-based storage virtualization on par with the state of the art
advances seen in LAN and server based virtualization technologies. By
allowing companies to create SAN Domains in their virtualized storage
infrastructures, SANsymphony delivers the virtualized, consolidated
storage infrastructure that companies want and the appropriate levels of
control and flexibility that they need to operate successfully in
today's corporate computing infrastructure.
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