DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization software, has scooped up the Virtualization Product of the Year Award at Network Computing Magazine’s prestigious 2008 Annual Awards dinner held last week at the Tower Hotel in London, beating stiff category competition from semi-finalists VMware, Citrix, Vizioncore and NetApp.  

George Teixeira, president and CEO, DataCore Software, commented, “It’s great to receive this award. For network managers, virtualization is all about lowering costs, reducing time-consuming tasks and keeping their users happy. DataCore makes it simple to enhance the user experience; providing powerful and easy-to-use storage services for better utilization, manageability, productivity, up-time and performance. It was a well represented category, so to win demonstrates SANmelody’s dramatic impact and its ability to deliver affordable best-of-breed virtualization.” 

The Awards, voted on by thousands of Network Computing Magazine’s readership, signify the readers’ appreciation of SANmelody and how it easily and cost effectively converts  physical Intel/AMD servers or virtual machines (VMs) into fully capable, virtual storage servers that are able to optimize, protect and manage storage over existing networks to fulfill the needs of application servers.  

Other features that enticed winners’ votes include SANmelody’s thin provisioning for disk space capacity automation, point-in-time snapshots for fast disk-based backups, and powerful data protection services that provide auto failover across redundant disk servers and long-distance asynchronous replication for disaster recovery over IP WANs.  

The Network Computing Awards were established in 2004 to recognize best-in-breed, easy-to-use solutions that make the working lives of network managers easier and more effective. Mike Duxbury, Senior Networking Specialist, Volkswagen Financial Services agrees with the selection of SANmelody, “For us, it represented a painless, straightforward SAN experience with what otherwise would have been classified as a major infrastructure change.” 

For more information on the full-line of Feature-Packed Virtual Storage Solutions, please visit: www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelody_buy.asp.