DataCore and VirtualSharp in Technology Partnership

DataCore Software Corp. and VirtualSharp Software Corp., provider of recovery solutions for private and public clouds, announced a technology partnership that integrates storage virtualisation with DR automation to deliver the next step in DR management: Disaster Assurance.
 
"The time and resource costs of DR plan exercising, especially that which is supported by manual or semi-manual processes, have become the most significant IT DR Management pain point for many of Gartner’s clients," wrote John Morency, research VP at Gartner, Inc. in Best Practices for Planning and Managing DR Testing. (Research Paper G00215785)
 
"Non-stop, reliable BC is an absolute imperative today, regardless of an organisation’s size or market," stated Carlos M. Carreras, VP of alliances and business development, DataCore. "SMBs, private cloud operators and even the largest enterprises require the ability to recover from an IT disaster without losing any data. Together with VirtualSharp, we are bringing complete assurance to the cloud and grant IT administrators the peace of mind knowing their information will always be protected and retrievable."
 
"Virtualisation’s benefits now extend to storage, and DataCore’s storage hypervisor makes storage more efficient and agile for thousands of companies worldwide," said Carlos Escapa, co-founder and CEO of VirtualSharp Software. "It was an easy decision to partner with DataCore to make BC and DR simpler, certain and more affordable."
 
The DataCore SANsymphony V storage hypervisor gives customers a foundation for BC and delivers infrastructure-wide, device-independent storage virtualisation that can manage environments of all sizes and quickly roll out agile, scalable storage infrastructures, including cloud. It provides snapshots, synchronous mirroring for HA, and asynchronous replication to remote DR sites. DR procedures can be periodically tested and verified without disturbing production activities at other points in the storage environment. Similarly, the software allows rapid resynchronization and resumption of a temporarily suspended site.
 
VirtualSharp Software’ ReliableDR adds 100% automated DR testing for guaranteed push-button failover and failback across clouds. Without any footprint or impact on the production environment, it works with the SANsymphony-V to create application and service-aware snapshots at a DR site that are guaranteed to work, to enforce RPO and RTO.
 
"DataCore and VirtualSharp integrate seamlessly to leverage storage and server virtualisation and enable highly resilient enterprise clouds," said John Greenwood, sales director at NCE Computer Group, Inc. "We are impressed by the synergy and close collaboration that these two vendors are demonstrating."