New DataCore Models of Storage Virtualization Appliance

DataCore Software Corp. announced new models of the SVA (Storage Virtualization Appliance) developed with Fujitsu Ltd. and highlight its growing network of strategic alliances with DataCore Ready certified joint solutions from partners like Dell and Microsoft. 

The release introduces breakthroughs in scalability and performance, providing more powerful and comprehensive enterprise functionality to SANsymphony-V10 storage services platform and to its ‘any hypervisor, any storage’ DataCore Virtual SAN.

At Powering the l 2014, the company previewed an update to software-defined storage platform SANsymphony-V10 that will be made available in November 2014. The SANsymphony-V10 and Virtual SAN update release features breakthroughs in the areas of scalability and performance and provides innovations including a capability designed to optimize random write processing, especially for transaction-oriented applications like databases and ERP systems.

DataCore’s new hypervisor, and storage Virtual SAN capabilities were featured at the show. It eliminates the need to deal with the traditional high costs and complexities of storage networks. Unlike alternative approaches, it is not bound to a single hypervisor platform or locked to specific storage hardware vendor’s system. Instead it works cross-platform with all major hypervisors (vSphere, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.) and popular flash and storage device offerings. The update will further enhance enterprise functionality and scaling of DataCore’s hypervisor a,d Virtual SAN by doubling the number of nodes supported up to 64, boosting random I/O performance and providing an extended growth path to integrate and unify physical SANs with SANsymphony-V making it a powerful and scalable systems.

DataCore continues to build customer momentum and has developed a growing market footprint across Europe, resulting in alliances and solutions aimed at helping partners deliver certified and ready-to-go offerings. In Central Europe, Fujitsu and DataCore have recently introduced three new models of their jointly developed and supported SVA with either 16Gb or 8Gb FC connectivity and ‘call home’ services. In addition, PCIe flash cards from Fusion-io, OCZ Storage Solutions and sTec are qualified and supported on these new SAN appliance models.

Another example of the expansion of the partner ecosystem is the cooperation with Microsoft. At Powering the Cloud 2014, DataCore delivered demos and presentations on how to benefit from using Virtual SANs in Hyper-V environments. The partners used the event to announce a new certified solution that allows customers to use DataCore to manage and virtualize on-premise storage and do backups and tier workloads and archive storage to Microsoft Azure-based cloud storage.

“Software is driving the future of storage and our software-defined ‘data anywhere’ architecture enables organizations to manage, virtualize and leverage all resources from server flash and disk to the external SAN and to the cloud from a single point spanning different departments, data centres and remote locations regardless of storage or server brands or hypervisor platforms“, says Christian Hagen, SVP EMEA, DataCore. “So we identified Powering the cloud 2014 is an ideal platform to provide end users and partners with the first preview on our upcoming release of our flagship SANsymphony-V and Virtual SAN solutions and feature our newest certified and ready-to-go offerings that we have developed with strategic partners Fujitsu, Dell, Microsoft and many others.“

DataCore is offering free, non-production licenses of its Virtual SAN software intended primarily for technical specialists, virtualization consultants, certified storage experts, instructors and architects evaluating technologies to manage and optimize storage infrastructures.