More on DataCore SANsymphony-V

Sometimes it’s difficult to understand why some storage companies do not really succeed as they offer good products and have smart management. Here is the example of DataCore.

Its flagship product, SANsymphony, regularly updated, is a nice solution for users that do not want to invest in monolithic and expansive boxes with their numerous associated software like NAS and SAN from EMC and NetApp, with a rich software integrating all capabilities, running on two standard servers and able to manage properly all the storage resources of a company. It is able now to work on the most popular virtualized environments for servers and desktops (Citrix, Microsoft, VMware). But it’s a fact: the market proves that the large majority of users prefer to pay more, buying pricey dedicated hardware rather than software with commodity storage devices.

DataCore, getting $112 million since its inception 13 years ago, remains relatively unknown and continues to be a small entity with annual revenues in the range of $30 million to $40 million, according to CEO George Teixeira, selling 20,000 licenses to 6,000 customers, even if he says that "DataCore doubled in the last three years". Teixeira does not like the comparison with FalconStor: "They are mainly in tapes, VTL", he said. But also in storage virtualization, FalconStor, born later, in 2000, is more than twice bigger with FY10 revenues at $83 million.

Maybe the new SANsymphony-V will help.

What’s new in this version:

Ease of use

• New GUI
• Workflow integration and automation
• Self-guided wizards
• Task-oriented design
• Consolidated stats / events across nodes
• Automated support bundle
• Simpler licensing structure

New functionalities

• Integrated CDP
• 5x faster asynchronous replication protocol
• Two-click reverse replication
• Pass-through drives  
• Built-in task scheduler
• Audit trail of changes
• Auto port selection
• Event-driven e-mail notifications

Price
€10,000 for two licenses for two servers and one year of maintenance, plus around €600 per terabyte (user capacity without compression).

Read also the press release already published:
New DataCore Storage Virtualization Software
Solves the storage problem stalling server and desktop virtualization projects.