Drive Control Corporation Distributor of StorMagic

Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has been appointed an official distributor for StorMagic, Inc., a provider of virtual SANs designed for companies running small data centres that require cost-effective, flexible and reliable two-server solutions.

Available to South African and SADC channel partners, DCC will be distributing StorMagic SvSAN, a software license that removes the need for a physical SAN by converting the disk, flash and memory of any two x86-based servers into a virtual SAN.

“StorMagic SvSAN provides our channel partners with a software-defined virtual SAN product that will enable them to offer a simple, very low-cost, HA solution to companies with restricted IT budgets that still meets the demands of their computing environments,” says Raul Del Fabbro, enterprise solution sales, DCC. “We’re extremely excited to partner with StorMagic which we believe ushers in a new era in affordable and optimised virtualised SAN solutions for the SA and SADC region.”

“DCC showed the passion and an acute understanding of the virtual SAN marketplace, which made them the perfect addition to the StorMagic family and our move into the South African and SADC region.  We look forward to a mutually successful relationship,” says Noel Wright, regional director, StorMagic.

SvSAN is a SDS solution designed to run on x86 servers, with two servers being the minimum cluster size to provide HA. It has been designed with lightweight system requirements to deliver highly available, shared storage with centralised management.

It is for deployments across any number of ROBOs as well smaller data centres that require small IT footprint coupled with the uptime and performance necessary to process large quantities of data.

The vsolution supports hypervisors such as vSphere, Hyper-V, Red Hat (RVEH) and provides the shared storage necessary to enable the hypervisor features such as HA/Failover Cluster, vMotion/Live Migration and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)/Dynamic Optimisation.

SvSAN integrates with existing virtualised environments and enables centralised deployment and management from one to thousands of sites, removing the need for dedicated specialist IT staff at each site and lowering the cost of management.