LSI Adds DataCore SANsymphony-V R9 to Portfolio

DataCore Software Corporation and LSI Corporation announced that LSI has become a DataCore Premier Partner.

LSI earned its Premier Program status in order to add DataCore’s SANsymphony-V R9 storage virtualization platform to its portfolio of IT solutions. LSI is now qualified to help customers maximize their return on storage investments and design cost-effective and flexible software-defined datacenters and infrastructures that leverage DataCore’s technology.

“When it comes to software-defined solutions and storage virtualization, SANsymphony-V is clearly best-of-breed,” said the president and CEO of LSI, Derek Flint. “DataCore’s technology has been proven in the field for more than 15 years. It allows organizations to treat storage as a single, easy-to-manage pool, while also offering powerful enterprise features such as automated storage tiering, adaptive high-speed caching and rapid provisioning to support the most demanding business environments. Most importantly, we share a ‘vendor-agnostic’ approach that is critical for maximizing storage investments regardless of the underlying hardware, enabling customers to realize the full benefits of storage virtualization now and in the future.”

Headquartered in Houston – with additional regional offices in New Orleans, Tempe, AZ and Bellevue, WA – LSI delivers technology from the vendors to provide IT solutions that meet and continually adjust to customers’ changing business needs. Leveraging its expertise in areas of data and infrastructure management, virtualization and analytics, LSI develops integrated solutions and provides professional services supported by expert consultants and certified engineers. LSI will use SANsymphony-V to serve its array of customer markets, including healthcare, energy, education, financial, manufacturing, government and retail.

SANsymphony-V is a storage virtualization platform that enables companies to avoid hardware lock-in and purchase only the equipment that best suits their business goals. The software empowers customers’ existing storage and improves business critical application performance. Features such as automated storage tiering, allow IT administrators to get the ROI from expensive hardware purchases, such as flash and SSDs. This assures that only applications and databases that require powerful computing are ever stored on them, while less frequently used, non-critical data is sent to less costly and lower performing equipment or even cloud-based options.

“While storage virtualization has become a high priority, LSI realizes that taking the right approach is imperative to their customer’s immediate and long-term success,” said the director of partner sales for DataCore, Devin Schiffman. “LSI enjoys a strong reputation for listening to their customers and ensuring the solutions they develop are cost-effective, powerful, and not limited by vendor lock-in. They’re versed in virtualization, data and infrastructure management and know how to fully leverage the capabilities of SANsymphony-V. We are gratified that DataCore continues to attract such quality partners and look forward to helping LSI deliver the best storage virtualization solutions available today.”

DataCore Software’s Premier Partner Program enables IT consultants and solution providers to answer growing market demand for more cost-effective storage, such as the implementation of flash and SSDs into tiered storage networks alongside conventional disk systems to improve application and virtualized workload performance, as well as making it easy to do migrations to the benefits of software-defined storage.