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2007 Q3 (July - September)

DataCore's Quarterly Newsletter - DataCore In The News: July Edition


TechWorld: Virtualised SANs for virtual servers
DataCore cosies up to virtually everybody.
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=10021&pagtype=all

Computerwire: Storage Players Step Up for VMware
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=7B703E03%2D7778%2D4F62%2D8349%2DC57CE2A8AE07

ByteandSwitch: DataCore Software reseller AccessFlow sets a feverish sales pace in 2007
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=132774

Enterprise Storage: The Skinny on Thin Provisioning
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/3696526

"We were buying more storage than we actually needed at any time because we had to over-allocate to make sure that the capacity was there when we needed it," said Ryan Engh, IS Infrastructure Manager at Wasatch Advisors, a financial firm operating out of Salt Lake City. "Now, with DataCore thin provisioning, we only allocate what we need when we need it, we've dramatically reduced our storage over-capacity, and we have effectively reduced our costs and energy footprint by more than 50 percent."

Techworld: DataCore's thin provisioning trial offer
http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsid=9785

DataCore's 'thin storage' can trim conventional 'fat storage' from 10TB down to 4TB, that's a 60 percent savings - call it 'Green", call it what you like, but in the end it does make storage use more efficient and therefore it does save energy costs."

Data Storage Connection: Thin Provisioning Plays a Revolutionary Role in Storage Management
http://www.datastorageconnection.com/read/sp20070822/651547

According to Mike Karp, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates, "Thin provisioning can be great solution for budget-strapped IT managers. It saves money, time, worry, and is 'green', so it makes companies good environmental citizens. The DataCore approach, like that of VMWare, and Citrix, is not wrapped in expensive hardware. A customer's investment is protected because DataCore thin provisioning will keep working even if their hardware infrastructure changes."

Healthcare ITnews: "LifeService" helped by failsafe storage provider
http://healthcareitnews.eu/content/view/640/41/

Telematics Journal: Germany's 'LifeService' Emergency Call System Is Always Online with DataCore's Failsafe SAN Virtualization Solution
http://www.telematicsjournal.com/content/newsfeed/10951.html

Andreas Fendl, IT consultant at Bjvrn Steiger Foundation - "For this project we were looking for a fault tolerant storage solution that we could totally rely on. We needed high availability throughout our design and it starts with Internet access and ends with the backend; therefore a reliable and failsafe SAN solution was critical as the backbone of our system. We operate in cases of emergency - so uptime for us is a matter of life and death."

DM Review: DataCore First to Offer Downloadable, 'Free to Try' Thin Provisioning and Virtualization; No Forklift Required
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/3696526

Thin provisioning solutions as offered by other vendors, such as 3PAR and HDS, require the purchase of their proprietary storage hardware that typically cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, making it difficult or impossible for those who are interested in trying out thin provisioning. Pricing for DataCore™ thin provisioning software solutions starts at $1,000.

SearchStorage Newsletter: Thin Provisioning Update
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1267610,00.html

According to Mike Gayle, Director of IT, Calvary Chapel Ft. Lauderdale, "Thin provisioning is a great solution. What made us choose DataCore, besides its low cost of implementation, is that it's portable software that's not dependent on a single vendor's expensive hardware. My investment is protected because DataCore thin provisioning will keep working for me over different generations of platforms for much longer than any hardware-based solution can."...

Tech Target: CDP gains ground one app at a time
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid5_gci1260390,00.html

Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, which employs both a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) and a video surveillance application, needed to shorten backup windows and speed up recoveries, notes Carlos Cabrera, manager of enterprise systems. To do that, says Cabrera, the center uses DataCore Software's Traveller CPR CDP product, which is then backed up using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager for extra protection. "Eventually, we'd like to do our daily backups through CDP and then grab the image and back up from the CDP system," he says.

ComputerWorld: Saving storage for a rainy day? Bad idea, say analysts
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029198&pageNumber=1

VMblog: DataCore is Versatile, Network Software: No Forklift Required
http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/08/08/datacore-first-to-offer-downloadable-free-to-try-thin-provisioning.aspx

Grid Today: "Green" Technology Promotes Energy Efficiency, Saves Money and Is Now Available to All to Try
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1720708.html

Computer World: Five tips for no-brainer virtualization
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9029220&pageNumber=1

...Tell that to manager of network operations Thomas Williamson, who purchased VMware ESX to virtualize 25 servers at the Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He wasn't aware that he could also virtualize the storage for those virtual machines. It was only after purchasing a 4TB Dell/EMC CX300 SAN (storage area network) that he learned from a user's group about DataCore Software Corp.'s SANmelody storage and virtualization management software.

The Register: Genetic researchers fill 1TB a week
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/03/wtchg_nexsan/

The Wellcome Trust manages its storage using DataCore's SANmelody software, which allows users to access data via iSCSI and Fibre Channel.

InfoWorld: TechWorld Announces 2007 Award Winners
http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2007/07/techworld_annou.html

Winning "Storage Virtualization Product of the Year" was DataCore Software with its SANsymphony 6.0 product.

And winning "Virtualization Product of the Year"? It may not come as any surprise - VMware scores with its VI3 virtualization platform.

DataCore’s vision of storage virtualization past, present and future (Virtual Strategy Magazine)
http://www.virtual-strategy.com/article/articleview/1972/1/2/

Storage Virtualization back on the Menu
http://www.theregister.com/2007/02/06/sansym_v6/

"We run DataCore in tandem with VMware and together they allocate resources as needed, where needed, over our IP and Fibre Channel networks," said Michael Gayle, IT director at Calvary Chapel and an early adopter of SANsymphony 6. "Instead of wrestling with hardware, SANsymphony has made storage a network utility - a service for our users and applications."

DataCore Goes for Thin Provisioning
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=173A9774-BBB8-4CF8-8AC0-BA9762B38CF9

DataCore Software Corp has joined a relatively exclusive technology club by adding thin provisioning to its low-end and mid-range appliance-based storage virtualization software.

Among the very few suppliers already offering the facility are Network Appliance Inc, and 3PAR Corp. But DataCore says that unlike those suppliers’ systems, prices for its thin-provisioning begin at $948.

DataCore targets SMBs with DR, BC
http://www.infostor.com/display_article/282705/23/ARTCL/Display/none/DataCore-targets-SMBs-with-DR,-BC/

DataCore Software announced this week that it has expanded its Virtual Infrastructure Foundation to provide disaster recovery and business continuity for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The software offers thin-provisioning to automate and optimize storage capacity, SANmotion features to simplify data migration, and storage performance acceleration software. Also included are auto-fail-over, auto-recovery, and IP SAN mirroring protection services.

DataCore touts a next level for virtualization
http://weblog.infoworld.com/tcdaily/archives/2007/02/datacore_touts.html

"Our advantage is that we don't have to carry around a locomotive sized chunk of hardware"

DataCore Updates V-Word Software
http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=49D60F8A-5F5B-4246-BAB4-7D9D52CBF8B3

Having shipped the first version of SANsymphony almost seven years ago, DataCore is one of the veterans of the storage virtualization market. Taneja Group analyst Arun Taneja said that because of this history, the company has developed functions and services in its software that "[rival] newcomers have yet to fathom."...

DataCore Intros 6.0
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=116044

"Storage virtualization is a game for experienced players. During the six plus years that DataCore has been in business they did the basics and learned a lot from their customers. They are applying this knowledge now in building a platform for the future that addresses a range of services that newcomers have yet to fathom. After the announcement of Enterprise Edition 6.0, if someone thinks DataCore is a niche player, think again! The timing couldn't be better as we see 2007 as the ‘year storage virtualization goes mainstream." – Arun Taneja, Founder, President and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group.

In-band’s Virtual Song
http://www.byteandswitch.com:80/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=252

DataCore's SANsymphony is becoming more enterprise-ready. At least one analyst who saw DataCore as a high-volume low-end play until now says the new features should make SANsymphony enterprise-ready. "DataCore graduated into an enterprise storage virtualization player with this release," Arun Taneja of the Taneja Group says. "I had always shoved them into the SMB category before."

A Sixth Major Version of DataCore’s SANsymphony Coming
http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureID=3141&pagtype=samecatsamechan

Michael Gayle, Director of IT, Calvary Chapel, a beta user, said: "Just buying more hardware would not have solved our problems. We needed a smarter approach that would allow us to control and automate storage across our entire environment, and decided to ‘go virtual’ with DataCore. Once you do so and look back, the old storage box approach seems so primitive. SANsymphony 6.0 made the jump easy."

DataCore Storage Virtualization Certified on Virtual Iron Virtual Infrastructure
http://www.virtualiron.com/news_events/releaseDate-013007_DataCore.cfm

"We searched the virtualization market for a solution that delivers the complete benefits of virtual infrastructure management," said Dermot Reynolds, Managing Director, NewDatum, a leading virtualization consultancy and reseller in the United Kingdom . "The combination of Virtual Iron and DataCore was the clear leader on price and capability. The ability to create virtual infrastructure from low cost industry standard servers dramatically improves the reliability and capacity of the data center at a price that is a fraction of VMware-based solutions. This provides tremendous price value to our customers."

"Together the Virtual Iron and DataCore solution provided by NewDatum offer us tremendous flexibility," said Mark Aylwin, Flexible Lamps IT Support Manager. "DataCore runs on industry standard hardware and can utilize any vendor’s storage that’s connected to it, while Virtual Iron allows us to replicate our server infrastructure without purchasing multiple servers to do it. The joint solution delivers an extremely cost-effective virtual infrastructure and disaster recovery solution at a fraction of the cost of alternatives."

Prime Time for SANs
http://www.crn.com/sections/hardware/hardware.jhtml?articleId=197000455

...A SAN can be affordable if solution providers work with a variety of solutions to meet small storage budgets, said Eryck Bredy, president of Bredy Network Management, a Woburn, Mass.-based solution provider.

One option is a custom solution. Instead of buying a name-brand iSCSI storage array, Bredy helps many of his customers install DataCore Software's SANmelody software on an off-the-shelf PC-based server and turn it into an iSCSI array. "The software starts at $1,178," Bredy said. "It can be set up for IP SAN or Fibre Channel. There's no need to go out and buy an EMC box. Then the customer says, 'Oh, I thought it would cost tens of thousands of dollars.' " ...

8 Key Players in Storage Virtualization
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197001124&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

A thumbnail guide to the heavy hitters in this key storage arena.

DATACORE SOFTWARE: SANmelody software from DataCore, Fort Lauderdale Fla., can be installed on any PC-based server to virtualize a pool of hard drives behind an iSCSI interface for Microsoft Windows environments. It has options for auto failover, high-availability and Fibre Channel.

DataCore Unveils SMB Solutions That Surpass Enterprise-Class Offerings
http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/monthly/art.php?2900

Users get all the software they need to fully manage and protect multiple terabytes of critical business data across different sites at a price point that makes it practical for small to mid-size businesses to implement high-end, data center class disaster recovery and business continuity. No other software solution on the market includes such a rich set of capabilities.

DataCore offers disaster recovery for SMBs
http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1762

DataCore has brought to the market a new class of disaster recovery and business continuity products under its Virtual Infrastructure Foundation, according to consultant firm, Clipper Group Inc. of Wellesley , Massachusetts . The new offerings provide a rich set of functions at a very affordable price for the small to medium sized business (SMB), Clipper Group added.

DataCore unveils affordable SMB solutions that claim to surpass enterprise class offerings
http://www.snseurope.com/snslink/news/news-full.php?id=5545&result=datacore

The new DataCore packaged solutions create a new price class in the market. Steve Kaplan, industry author and co-founder/CEO of AccessFlow, a leading DR and virtualisation solution provider commented - "DataCore has reset what is possible for small-to-mid-size businesses in terms of data protection. These new solutions deliver a level of disaster recovery only seen in high-end data centres at a fraction of the cost. Systems with auto-failover and remote site replication for disaster recovery typically are priced at $100,000 and up. What DataCore has done with its new Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions is to bring enterprise-class, data centre disaster recovery down to the level where these high-end features are affordable. Smaller businesses need to eliminate downtime and protect their systems. And just like big companies, they also want to know that in the event of a failure, they will be protected."

DataCore Revolutionizes Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/01/15/datacore-revolutionizes-business-continuity-and-disaster-recovery.aspx

According to Jon Toigo, industry watchdog and founder of the Data Management Institute, "DataCore's latest contribution builds on a solid foundation of products offering virtualization and continuous data protection off the array, enabling companies to buy the storage they need at a price they can afford and add value in the form of software to better protect and manage information. This is key to right-sizing infrastructure to meet business requirements rather than buying hugely expensive "value-add" arrays whose real value, in financial or practical terms, is open to question."

"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."

SMBs offered virtually cheap disaster recovery
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/15/dcore_smb_dr/

"The reason people like products such as EMC's SRDF is that they serve multiple operating systems and it protects everything," said George Teixeira, DataCore's president & CEO. "Ours is the same - it serves any O/S and any number of virtual or physical servers. The difference is you don't need a $100,000 SAN behind it."

"We've seen huge growth in the whole VM space," he said. "Software such as VMware puts all its eggs in one basket, so you need to put high-availability storage behind it - we give you the software to create an IP SAN with auto fail-over for $7998, plus $2000 for a year's support."

He added that thin provisioning…has a big role in the VM space as well.

"We put thin provisioning into these packages because we learnt that virtual system images reserve a lot of space, but it's space you're not actually using," he said. "We found that with this, our 3TB is worth maybe 10TB from someone else."

The movement to 'total enterprise virtualization' and iSCSI are driving new users to virtual storage
http://www.snseurope.com/snslink/news/news-full.php?newsid=5458

"DataCore claims that hundreds of new, small to medium-sized customers installed DataCore's SANmelody storage virtualization software in the second half of 2006 for the following reasons."

According to DataCore companies world-wide are clearly moving beyond component level virtualization to 'total enterprise virtualization,'which spans servers, desktops and storage. The growing success of VMware and its support for new, low cost iSCSI storage connectivity has also spurred virtualization deployments in smaller to medium-sized companies, which want the data protection and greater uptime benefits of a SAN.

iSCSI set to boom, boom, boom
http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=364&blogid=3

...DataCore sold hundreds of its SANmelody low-end SAN virtualisation product in the second half of 2006. Most of those were going into SME iSCSI shops.

DataCore Announces "Surf's Up" for Storage Virtualization
http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/01/07/datacore-announces-surf-s-up-for-storage-virtualization.aspx

"VMware environments and storage networks go hand-in-hand, but the cost to implement a SAN was a major limiting factor until we found and evaluated DataCore's Virtual Infrastructure Foundation," said Chris Cooper, president, Span the Wan. "The software was easy to install on our existing systems with Ethernet connections. Moreover, SANmelody gave us a lot of flexibility and - most importantly - it worked seamlessly with the VMware set up. The price made it a simple purchase decision."

DataCore Recognizes "Total Enterprise Virtualization"
http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1188634.html

When servers are consolidated, more users are depending on fewer physical servers and, therefore, a single failure can affect many users. DataCore claims that most iSCSI storage solutions that are affordable do not perform true and reliable fail-over. On the other hand, they claim that most SAN solutions that provide high quality business continuity to FC SAN data centers are too expensive, and are often unavailable, for iSCSI implementations.

SANmelody racing up the charts
http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=3&entryid=360

Is DataCore's SANmelody top of the IP SAN virtualisation charts? Here is an extract from a recent company release: "Hundreds of new, small to mid-size customers have installed DataCore's SANmelody storage virtualization software in the second half of 2006. New users include Span the Wan, S&S Cycle, Coastal Range Systems, LifeSearch, Hedgemetrix LLC, Fox Williams, Hamilton Beach, Hallmark Financial Services, Inc., ETO, Herakles LLC, Olin Corp., Paragon Engineering, Alchemy Plus, City of Carmel, Wilcox & Savage, First Hawaiian Bank, University of Arkansas, ADMN, John H. Harland Company, Teachers Media Company, Dennis Publishing, VerdictMAX, Adolfson & Peterson Construction, EngenderHealth, Spectranetics, LTK Engineering Services, All Medical Personnel and many more.


DataCore Shortens Sales Cycle for Virtual Infrastructure Partners
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061107/nytu067.html?.v=67

"With DataCore Virtual SAN Infrastructure packages starting at less than $1000, SAN cost no longer delays our customers' VMware deployments," said Michael Reilly, President & CEO of Foedus, a DataCore partner and provider of Virtualization Infrastructure technologies and services. "With existing servers they have on site, we are able to easily demonstrate a complete, SAN supported, Virtual Infrastructure, in any proof of concept (POC), without having to wait for the customer to free up budget for SAN hardware."

Infrastructure virtualization is ready to go company-wide
http://www.mcsolutions.co.uk/article/index.aspx?articleid=XS_rzPcZ8gr2ZrT9-C9RNNajcFoPHyJvo_xAKeudzzwA

"We now have the products and services expertise to design and implement Total Enterprise Virtualisation solutions," says Mike Strohl, president of VMware consultant Entisys Solutions. "VMware server opened the broader market to understanding that virtualisation can liberate IT resources and services from the limitations of physical devices, enabling them to be used more efficiently. Once that is understood, it really doesn't make sense to stop with servers, now that products such as DataCore SANmelody are available."

Biggest further education college in Wales goes virtual
http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/12/06/Coleg-Gwent-%E2%80%93-DataCore-Software.html
http://www.snseurope.com/snslink/news/news-full.php?id=5267&result=datacore

Evan Smith, assistant head of IT at Coleg Gwent, comments: "The SAN has had no visible impact on the network performance and has improved the performance in retrieving data. With a growing number of students and staff, the need to increase capacity was paramount. Viglen introducing SANmelody has met our requirements. It is very simple to use and gives us a platform for the future."

Go Back in Time
http://www.redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=387

That's exactly what you want to do after a data-destroying disaster. And now you can.

DataCore Software has a new continuous data-protection product called Traveller, which protects your data by letting you roll back to a previous time prior to a virus attack, power outage or some other disaster.

Traveller uses high-availability data mirroring and storage virtualization to restore data to a known, "good" state prior to disaster. It's a potentially smoother approach than data snapshots, which can leave gaps between recovery points. Traveller chugs away transparently in the background without affecting any applications or other operations, just waiting for Godzilla to crush your data center.


DataCore Previews SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 and 'Virtualization II'
http://www.ecnasiamag.com/article.asp?id=11684

Providing centralized management and administration, the SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 lays foundation for Universal Storage Interface networking scheme that expands virtualization and management beyond storage devices. Enterprise iSCSI capabilities are built on fault tolerant N+1 scalable architecture to ensure business continuity while delivering thin-provisioning storage capacity over existing Ethernet LAN/IP base infrastructures. Program supports path failover across FC or iSCSI.

DataCore Brings Thin Provisioning to the Masses
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=21024

International News Coverage:

German Press Coverage:
http://www.konzept-pr.de/kundenuebersicht2.cfm?Handle=DataCore

Datacore läutet 'Virtualisierung II' ein
http://www.silicon.de/enid/client_server_host/25262

Datacore reitet weiter die Virtualisierungswelle
http://www.speicherguide.de/magazin/aktuelles.asp?todo=de&theID=6219&bhcp=1

Business Continuity und Disaster Recovery im Paket
http://lanline.de/article.html?thes=&art=/articles/2007002/30962169_ha_LL.html

French Press Coverage:
http://www.clipping-tu.com/extranet/scripts/communiques.php?param=11&idClient=23

Stockage : DataCore poursuit son approche virtuelle avec SANsymphony 6
http://www.vnunet.fr/fr/vnunet/news/2007/02/09/datacore-poursuit-approche

SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 et la stratégie Virtualization II de DataCore
http://www.mag-securs.com/article.php3?id_article=7272

Continuité et reprise après sinistre : la solution DataCore
http://www.toolinux.com/news/logiciels/continuite_et_reprise_apres_sinistre_la_solution_datacore_ar8734.html