Microsoft Azure StorSimple Cloud Arrays Being DataCore Ready

DataCore Software Corporation announced at the Powering the Cloud conference that the Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 and the StorSimple 7000 Series Hybrid Coud Storage Arrays are certified as DataCore Ready.

StorSimple and Azure combine with DataCore’s Virtual SAN and SANsymphony-V storage virtualization and services platform to offer a hybrid cloud storage solution that enhances the utilization and productivity of existing primary storage residing locally, while providing a cost-effective way to utilize and integrate off-premise cloud storage for backup, archive and DR. The StorSimple Hybrid Storage Arrays were awarded the DataCore Ready certification after the completion of a verification and test process.

DataCore and Microsoft combine
to tier, migrate, backup, archive and do recovery from the cloud
StorSimple appliances are able to integrate on-premise, DataCore-managed and virtualized solid state and disk-based storage with the Microsoft Azure Cloud, providing a powerful solution to tier to and access even larger off-premise scalable cloud storage. The appliances make it practical to automate off-site backups, offload inactive archive data from on-premises, and provide dedupe, compression, replication and mobility services to lower costs and accelerate DR. The combination of Microsoft Azure, StorSimple and DataCore helps meet the requirements of enterprises in need of a hybrid cloud strategy and infrastructure that blends on-premise and private cloud resources with off-premise highly scalable public cloud resources.

DaSANsymphony-V software-defined storage and Virtual SAN software solutions are designed to maximize the performance, availability and utilization of IT assets. DataCore’s storage virtualization software provides a common platform that works across any storage hardware – pooling and protecting a mix of storage devices and brands (including flash, SAN or cloud), while centralizing management and automating many of the functions. DataCore’s auto-tiering capability optimizes storage performance and automates the migration of data based on storage classifications and policies to maximize resource utilization across solid-state flash technologies, disks and cloud storage. The software allows organizations to select the most appropriate storage tier and paths to achieve their desired levels of performance and availability.

DataCore can access and auto-tier storage directly to the Microsoft StorSimple appliance, allowing it to optimize on-site storage resources while leveraging the cloud for elastic storage needs such as archival, remote-site backups, snapshot storage and DR workloads.

“A major challenge within the storage infrastructure today is the missing flexibility for growth,” says Robert Gorbahn, senior solution sales professional, Microsoft StorSimple. “With Microsoft Azure StorSimple and SANsymphony-V customers build an extremely cost-efficient solution by integrating different storage classes. The most current StorSimple 8000 series extends every DataCore storage environment seamlessly with a Microsoft Azure cloud-integrated storage tier. The Logos ‘certified for Windows Server 2012 R2’ and ‘DataCore ready’ further prove the validation of these solutions.“

“Our DataCore Ready Program identifies solutions that are verified to enhance DataCore software-defined storage infrastructures. The combination of DataCore and StorSimple appliances provides a seamless way to leverage the Microsoft Azure cloud as a tier of storage within the enterprise’s virtual storage pool,” said Paul Murphy, VP of WW marketing, DataCore. “This provides a very flexible solution to meet the increasing and constantly changing needs of enterprises to cost-effectively offsite data protection, archive and offload corporate data to the cloud.“