DataCore Offering Fast Hyperconverged Virtual SAN Software

DataCore Software Corporation announced that at VMworld 2016 and during the month of September, it will offer license keys for its Parallel I/O-powered Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software at no cost to VMware vExpert, VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX), VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP), VMware Certified Professional (VCP), and VMware Certified Implementation Expert (VCIX).

The not-for-resale (NFR) license keys – available for non-production uses such as home labs, course development, training, feature testing and demonstration purposes – are intended to support virtualization consultants, instructors and architects involved in efforts aimed at managing and leveraging storage assets.

“DataCore delivers the industry’s fastest performance by leveraging multi-cores to drive unmatched parallel I/O processing. We want the experts to experience the power of DataCore’s Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software for themselves,” said George Teixeira, co-founder and CEO, DataCore. “This offer makes it easy for VMware experts to try the software in their home and office labs and to explore and educate others about the most effective means for utilizing high-performance hyper-converged infrastructure; we believe the power of parallel processing will help benefit the industry as a whole.“

The company shattered the performance and price-performance marks for hyperconverged and storage solutions using one of prestigious benchmark; the Storage Performance Council‘s SPC-1 (which measures IO/s and latency against enterprise database and transaction processing workloads) [1]. (details)

Firm’s hyperconverged Virtual SAN incorporates the advances in the company’s Parallel I/O technology, along with universal vSphere Virtual Volumes (VVols) support. Parallel I/O technology helps increase the performance of Tier-1 business applications for higher productivity, as well as to consolidate infrastructure by doing more workloads and delivering the fastest response times at the lowest cost.

^[1] SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report DataCore Software Corporation DataCore SANsymphony (Current as of 6/13/2016)