DataCore Developed Software-Defined Storage Benefits Calculator

DataCore Software Corp. launched a software-defined storage benefits calculator as a part of its website.

By providing a few details about an organization’s storage environment, the benefits calculator provides a savings report, which details the benefits of using the solution for storage virtualization, covering six categories:

• Financial savings over five years

• Reduce downtime in hours

• Centralize management

• Pool tiered resources

• Reclaim free space (terabytes)

• Extend functional coverage

“As the software-defined storage market continues to grow at a rapid pace, we felt there was a void in the industry in providing organizations with the tools necessary to realize the full benefits of storage virtualization,” said Paul Murphy, VP, worldwide marketing, DataCore. “The benefits calculator is designed to instantly show the real business impact storage virtualization can have on an organization, something our customers – across more than 10,000 sites – have experienced for the past 16 years.“

DataCore partnered with Alinean Inc. – ROI and TCO company – to develop the software-defined storage benefits calculator. The calculator estimates savings based on:

• Industry estimates for costs associated with downtime (planned and unplanned);

• The reduction of downtime customers experience after introducing DataCore;

• Industry averages for the cost of storage and the staff to manage it;

• The improvement in the utilization of once stranded capacity is pooled, provisioned, cached and auto-tiered using DataCore

• And the coverage that the company’s software-defined storage platform brings through infrastructure-wide services.

In addition to the benefits calculator, the website features customer case studies from different industries and video testimonials demonstrating the real life benefits that customers are experiencing.

The site also features a two minute video that exposes the secret that hardware vendors have been keeping from their customers for years – how software-defined storage will change the IT industry.