New Solutions for Virtualization and Business Continuity From DataCore

Appearing at VM09, DataCore Software unveiled New Business Continuity Starter SAN packages and promotions, new capabilities such as Advanced Site Recovery (ASR), a simple pre-configured Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), Citrix Essentials StorageLink adapter for Hyper-V and XenServer and support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

 
The DataCore presence at the show for the first year consolidates the recent announcements and inroads that DataCore has made into optimising storage virtualisation:
DataCore Announces New Advanced Site Recovery Solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft
DataCore Software Now Supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
DataCore Virtual SAN Appliance and Citrix Essentials StorageLink Adapter for Microsoft Hyper-V
DataCore Software and VMware vSphere are VMware Ready Certified
 
Each day at 10.30am DataCore will be hosting a speaking session in the main conference theatres on ‘Extending High Availability to Disaster Recovery scales’. 
 
There is also significant news and promotions for Citrix, Microsoft and VMware resellers who are visiting the show and need to reduce the cost of storage hardware that often price them out of virtualisation deals.
 
DataCore has packaged several promotions that are now available to virtualization solution advisors and resellers. These promotions will enable partners to reap the rewards and benefits of having DataCore storage virtualisation solutions in their arsenal of product offerings.

They include:

• Academic programmes offering 50% educational discounts
• A ‘Revitalise or Repurpose’ existing storage arrays or SANs promotion
• A 1TB Starter SAN Software Promotion for Business Continuity & DR
• Special government programmes and discounts

New Storage Virtualisation Resource Centre
for Virtualization Solution Advisors and Resellers
The new Solution Advisor Resource Centre provides essential sales training and positioning to help resellers and solution advisors grow their virtualisation business with DataCore’s storage virtualisation solutions.
 
“By launching a ‘Quick Start’ Solution Advisor Resource Center that includes vital sales and marketing resources, DataCore is making it easy for both current and prospective resellers to propose solutions to their clients’ storage infrastructure requirements and to profit from the sale of DataCore’s storage virtualisation software solutions,” states Augie Gonzalez, director of product marketing, DataCore Software.
 
Select materials of the new Solution Advisor Resource Center include:

• An eight-minute ‘Get Acquainted with DataCore‘ introduction
• Video Sales Training Presentations
• An Overview of Bundles, Promotions & Packaging
• VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Sales reference cards, including ‘Tips for selling DataCore solutions to Server & Desktop Virtualisation clients’. And more.

DataCore makes it easy for any virtualization reseller to sell DataCore storage virtualisation solutions. The new resources are on the DataCore web site, unlike traditional portals all the info in the ‘Quick Start’ site is available for use without having to fill out applications. Therefore, partners can immediately review what they need to know to sell. All they have to do to resell is contact an existing authorized distributor.

DataCore’s UK distributors are: Bell Micro, DNS Arrow and Magirus.