47% of DataCore Customers Reported 50% or More Reduction in Storage Spending

DataCore Software Corporationwww.datacore.com announced the results of a new research study conducted by TechValidate.

The study primarily focused on the experience of DataCore customer’s in terms of performance, availability/reliability and TCO.

Overall, participants reported faster applications with up to 10x performance increases; higher availability with a 90% or greater reduction in storage-related downtime; substantial reduction in costs; and greater productivity with the majority of respondents reporting a 50-90% decrease in time spent on routine tasks.

Highlights from the findings include:

• 47% of customers reported a 50% or more reduction in storage-related spending; over 80% of customers reported at least 25% savings.
• The majority of customers reported that they were able to defer or skip multiple refresh cycles, and over 60% saved by deferring storage hardware acquisitions by using DataCore to extend the life and enhance the productivity  of current investments.
• 79% of customers reported performance improvements of at least 3x, and nearly half of the DataCore customers surveyed reported improvements between 5x-10x.
• 60% reduced storage-related downtime by 90% or more; the majority of customers who had systems deployed for two years or more reported no storage-related downtime whatsoever.
• 72% of respondents reported a 50% or more decrease in time spent on managing routine storage tasks, with some noting a reduction as high as 90%.
• All respondents reported a positive ROI in the first year; 50% reported a positive ROI in six months or less.

Immediate value
We realized a positive ROI from our investment in DataCore within:

(Source: TechValidate survey of 362 users of DataCore)

These findings further support that DataCore offers the best performance and the lowest TCO by complementing new data recently published by the Storage Performance Council (SPC). In a series of recently released SPC-1 benchmarks, DataCore’s current SANsymphony and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software achieved the industry’s best price-performance, coming in at just $0.08 cents per SPC-1 IO/s. The results also measured fast response times of just 0.32 milliseconds which were achieved while running the full load of the demanding enterprise application and database benchmark. At 0.32 milliseconds, the results are 3x-10x better than all other reported results including those from all-flash arrays and million dollar plus systems.
 
To highlight the full impact of parallel I/O on performance, DataCore recently announced the results of new software that will enable servers to utilise multicores to multiply performance. The software, available in Q2, has demonstrated a result of more than 1.5 million SPC-1 IO/s with a new world record response time of just 0.10 milliseconds at 100% load.
 
“This is game changer which is ahead of the trend and a key element to help organisations truly be able to have a software-defined data centre,” DataCore customer Irvin Nio, IT architect, Capgemini, noted during the survey.
 
The new level of enterprise HA and reliability proved by TechValidate research can be attributed to DataCore’s features including hardware interoperability, hardware-independent storage services, data migration capabilities and more. DataCore’s latest addition to its technology portfolio, parallel I/O, takes advantage of today’s multi-core server platforms to execute many independent I/O streams simultaneously across multiple CPU cores – supporting the I/O needed to run more VMs and application workloads faster and at a much lower cost. It reduces the latency  to service and process I/Os while enabling companies to benefit from higher productivity and server consolidation savings.
 
A total of 1,984 responses were recorded from DataCore customers globally. TechValidate research data is sourced directly from verified business and technology professionals.