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DataCore Software Joins VMware
as a Technology Software Alliance Partner
In the spirit of working together to expand deployments of
virtual infrastructure technology, DataCore Software, a leader
in storage virtualisation solutions, today announced that
it has joined the VMware Technology Software Alliance program.
This is a logical next step since many DataCore customers
are benefiting from the combination of VMware virtual machines
and DataCore virtual storage, and the announcement further
signifies the new reality in virtualisation: virtual servers
and virtual storage make sense.
"The products work hand-in-hand to accelerate the time
it takes to allocate and assign systems and storage,"
said Kosmas Schütz, Director of Information Systems,
Munich’s Schwabing Hospital. "With a small staff,
it makes it possible to manage a lot of user storage and hundreds
of servers in our dynamic environment. Together, VMware ESX
software and DataCore virtual storage reduce workloads on
administrators, ease server provisioning and automate serving
disk capacity to users and applications."
By adding DataCore to the virtual infrastructure mix on the
storage side, VMware software in combination with DataCore
solutions give administrators what they need to streamline
the way they work.
Administrators can scale and rescale the processor capacity,
memory and automate disk space as well as interfaces for the
applications, as needed. The time it takes to deliver a customised
server and storage and get it live is reduced often by a factor
of 10.
"By working with VMware, DataCore Software can optimise
and support the interoperability of our SANsymphony and SANmelody
software with VMware software to enhance performance and functionality
and assure the best customer experience," said George
Teixeira, President & CEO, DataCore Software. "As
a Technology Software Alliance partner, DataCore gains additional
access to software, technology support and access to VMware
software technical consultation and training.
According to TPI Technologies CTO Jeremy Evans, "DataCore
does for storage what VMware does to servers - the combination
really makes sense. DataCore’s virtualisation storage
solution received top marks when we tested it in ease-of-use
when integrated with VMware software, the leading server virtualisation
product. The combination extends the value proposition beyond
server utilization to include the storage investment."
DataCore Triumphs Alongside
VMWare and Microsoft in TPI Technologies Usability Tests
TAMPA BAY, Florida - JUNE 22, 2005 — TPI Technologies,
the premiere consumer-focused storage testing laboratory,
today announced that it has completed an exhaustive testing
regime matching DataCore Software's SANmelody 2.0 software
with EMC VMWare GSX Server 3.0 and Microsoft Virtual Server
2005. According to TPI Technologies CEO Jeremy Evans, the
integration of DataCore's SANmelody storage virtualisation
solution, with the two leading server virtualisation products
in the market today, has enormous potential to simplify the
management and provisioning of IT resources to applications
running in small-to-medium-sised enterprises (SMEs)
Evans, who had previously reviewed SANmelody's support for
IP-based storage configurations, tested the solution with
eight virtual servers sharing a common storage pool. "Allocating
and reallocating computer and storage resources to various
application workloads produced excellent results," he
noted. "I can readily see how SANmelody technology could
be leveraged to simplify administrative and management tasks
- a godsend in the multitasking, 'do more with less' environments
that currently exist in most SME shops."
Evans said that deployment of the SANmelody to virtual server
platforms required only a few additional steps, when compared
with the procedure for deploying the product in non-virtualised
operating system environments. "The increasing stability
of server virtualisation technology, combined with the leading-edge
storage pooling capabilities of DataCore's product, produced
a powerful set of management improvements that promise to
contribute increased flexibility and more efficient utilization
of IT resources to end users," said Evans. "For
many SME IT managers, this will be exactly the technology
they need, exactly when they need it."
Evans views SANmelody's first-to-market support for virtualised
storage across IP networks as a significant advantage for
DataCore going forward. "SANmelody can now aggregate
any storage LUNs, exposed via any interconnect technology
and including iSCSI, into a shared storage pool," he
said. "The vendor's passionate agnosticism with respect
to brand of storage hardware adds enormous value by enabling
consumers to buy only the storage they need for their applications.
Purpose-built storage infrastructure, overlaid with a common
virtualisation and management software layer, is the only
way to drive cost out of storage - the most expensive infrastructure
component in most IT hardware budgets."
Evans says that he cannot see expensive storage interconnects
and brand name monolithic storage platforms gaining any sort
of real traction among SME consumers. "The combined cost
of their full complement of servers does not come close to
offsetting the price for a Fibre Channel Fabric," said
Evans. "Moreover, very few enterprises have applications
that require a FC Fabric SAN." Going forward, he foresees
enormous potential for less expensive network-based storage
technologies, including NAS and iSCSI, in the SME space. "Server
virtualisation is just icing on the cake - extending the value
proposition and capacity utilization efficiency of the IT
and storage investment," he noted.
To read the TPI Technologies test report, please go to: www.tpitechnologies.com
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