Today at Microsoft Management
Summit 2011 in Las Vegas, DataCore Software, the
industry’s premier provider of storage virtualization software,
announced that cloud services provider AcXess is using DataCore’s SANsymphony
software to create a dynamic, resilient virtual storage
infrastructure that cost-effectively supports the
company’s Microsoft Hyper-V server virtualization environment and its business
model.
AcXess has built its
business around flexible virtualization technologies designed to meet the needs
of key customers such as Microsoft who rely on AcXess to provide reasonably
priced services such as on-demand sales demos, proof-of-concept (POC) labs, and
training sessions in virtualized environments to thousands of employees,
partners, and customers. Leveraging the combination of Hyper-V and DataCore,
AcXess has doubled the number of users year over year and has grown its business
300 percent, while saving $5 million in hardware costs. A full case study is
available on Microsoft’s
website.
“DataCore storage
virtualization software has proven itself to be the ideal solution.
We run a number of large
systems for Microsoft in the cloud today and it was a very logical choice to
choose DataCore to run the SAN component of the AcXess V-Works™ platform,”
states Tom Elowson, president and cofounder of AcXess. “The reason that we
chose DataCore was the flexibility and cost savings we gained from their storage
virtualization solution and the way that it worked within our system to provide
very powerful experiences to accelerate revenue for Microsoft sales people and
other clients around the world.”
Powerful and Agile Cloud
Services Built on Microsoft and DataCore Virtualization
Software
DataCore’s
SANsymphony software enables small- and medium-sized enterprises like AcXess to
use their existing storage equipment and devices to achieve the robust and
responsive shared storage infrastructure necessary to support highly dynamic
virtual IT environments. This contrasts sharply with the alternative “rip and
replace” approach, which is often prohibitively expensive and results in a rigid
infrastructure that cannot adapt to future business needs.
AcXess V-Works is used by companies such as
Microsoft and Citrix to deploy and manage hosted
applications and workspaces. Microsoft’s
global field and technical force sales teams use V-Works to demonstrate and sell
Microsoft solutions to customers worldwide. AcXess V-Works uses DataCore
SANsymphony for the virtual SAN and storage management needed to support more
than 1,000 Microsoft Hyper-V-based virtual machines. Microsoft has thousands of
registered employee-access users on V-Works running 25,000 virtual sessions per
year and has logged more than 250,000 hours of enterprise quality demonstrations
and V-labs on this platform.
Combination
of Microsoft Hyper-V and DataCore Storage Virtualization Saves Millions
To
support growing and unpredictable customer usage demands, AcXess deployed
DataCore’s
SANsymphony storage virtualization software to increase the performance and
scalability of its existing storage infrastructure. SANsymphony created a
virtualized storage environment providing critical functionality such as
high-speed caching to boost performance, non-stop availability and space
efficient thin provisioning for dynamic capacity allocation.
“As
a cloud service provider, AcXess’ client workloads and storage demands are
highly unpredictable. To accommodate the changing needs of their customers,
they require flexibility in terms of performance, reliability and scalability,”
said George Teixeira, president and CEO of
DataCore Software. “DataCore’s storage virtualization software enables
companies like AcXess to save money, time and effort so they can focus on
delivering best-value pricing and driving their services performance and
reliability – the three biggest reasons customers keep coming
back.”
See DataCore at Microsoft Management Summit 2011 in Booth
529
Microsoft Management Summit 2011 runs March 21-25 at Mandalay Bay in
Las Vegas. Please visit DataCore in Booth 529.