DataCore and Supermicro Together for Enterprise Hyperconverged Solutions

DataCore Software Corporation partnered with Super Micro Computer, Inc. to create an enterprise hyper-converged solution that delivers the benefits of performance and web-scale simplicity.

While priced to provide a cost-effective option for traditional hyper-converged use cases such as VDI and ROBO, these systems deliver the fast hyper-converged performance and can also run demanding enterprise applications such as databases and ERP systems using a fraction of the nodes required by others to run similar workloads.

Powered by DataCore’s software that is proven in more than 30,000 deployments worldwide, the solution offers hyper-consolidation for top productivity as well as the ‘zero-touch’ continuous availability needed to keep businesses running without disruptions.

The combination of company’s Parallel I/O technology with Supermicro’s multi-core, multi-processor systems super charges I/O performance to deliver productivity and consolidation ratios – all in a single, ready-to-run appliance that combines both storage and servers.

Increase performance and reduce costs
“Hyper-converged does not have to mean underpowered. Deploying a dozen nodes to meet reasonable performance is not only costly but the opposite of the Hyper-converged promise to be simple to manage. Companies are looking to take the next step to fulfill their vision of consolidating and reducing the complexity of their infrastructure,” stated Carlos M. Carreras, senior VP, WW business development, DataCore. “But this has remained an aspiration since surveys show many companies don’t believe they can run demanding enterprise applications on Hyper-converged systems and many have experienced slower applications after server virtualization, with 77% pointing to I/O problems and slower response times as the root cause.“

This lack of performance is the primary reason that enterprises have not seen the consolidation ratios expected from server virtualization, or the resultant cost savings. The companies are focused on improving the productivity gains achievable from better consolidation and cost savings by providing virtualized applications improved I/O performance and faster response times.

Next-generation infrastructure consolidation with hyper-converged
“Supermicro is pleased to partner with DataCore to deliver a Hyper-converged solution based on Supermicro optimized server and storage systems that drives industry-leading I/O performance and consolidation ratios,” stated Don Clegg, VP, marketing and business development, Supermicro. “The net result is increased performance and VM density that enterprises need to realize greater consolidation savings, faster performance and higher availability for virtualized applications.“

The storage and hyper-converged landscape is evolving from premium-priced, proprietary hardware and software solutions to open, industry-standard hardware and the benefits are significant: reduced vendor lock-in and innovation with new technologies.

DataCore is able to capitalize on this industry paradigm by pairing standard hardware devices with world-record shattering performance storage virtualization and hyper-converged virtual SAN solutions.

“Supermicro’s extensive high density storage and compute platforms are a leading choice for DataCore’s powerful Hyper-converged product,” noted Carreras. “The modular design system, with application-optimized platforms, provides maximum performance and efficiency. Moreover, the Supermicro and DataCore Hyper-converged solution enables users to scale their applications with the smallest possible footprint in a modern datacenter or remote office.“

DataCore powers fast hyper-converged solutions
DataCore shattered the performance and price-performance marks for hyper-converged and storage solutions using a benchmark: the Storage Performance Council‘s SPC-1 (which measures IO/s and latency against enterprise database and transaction processing workloads) ^[1]. See.

Compelling advantages for hyper-converged solutions
Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software delivers an available and performance solution for virtualized applications in a cost-effective package.

Compared to other hyper-converged products, the company offers the following advantages:

Faster: Faster applications means more transactions processed in less time, more data analyzed faster and higher VM density.

Always on: Highly available infrastructure and built-in metro-wide stretch mirroring with ‘zero-touch’ automatic failover and failback reduces disruptions to business operations and decreases risk.

Do more with less: Run more workloads, with better performance and availability, on far fewer servers and utilize existing infrastructure, for remarkable cost savings both direct and indirect (less power, cooling and space).
Higher efficiency: Integrated infrastructure means it’s easy to manage everything, with fewer people.

As a global provider in server technology, Supermicro offers a degree of flexibility and customization by providing an array of server configurations from which users can choose the optimal solution for their application.

Parallel I/O technology operates across all Supermicro hardware devices – combining both storage and servers in a single tier.

Base hardware configurations from Supermicro in conjunction with DataCore software in 2-node configurations are available for the following scenarios – large enterprise, enterprise, mid-range, and entry-level.

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