DataCore, a leader in software-defined storage, today announced that Nexus has become a DataCore Premier Partner. Nexus, a Dimension Data company, is a leading international provider of end-to-end technology solutions for public and private organizations. In April, the company was recognized with the Global Award for Americas Partner of the Year at Cisco Partner Summit.
“DataCore is an important strategic partner for us in complementing the extensive practice we have built using Cisco UCS (Unified Communications System) Servers,” stated Mike Heiman, SVP of engineering at Nexus. “DataCore’s technology allows us to better meet our overall objective of driving operational agility with scalable, highly available, application delivery infrastructure. As a result, we can deliver one unified software platform to our customers.”
DataCore SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software will enable Nexus to better deliver on the promise of the agile data center because it provides customers one software platform for any storage hardware – pooling and protecting heterogeneous storage devices (including flash, SAN or Cloud), while centralizing management and automating many of the functions. Moreover, SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software enables any organization to synchronously mirror, failover and failback between unlike storage systems – for example, between EMC, NetApp, Dell and HP.
“Nexus is the ideal IT solution provider for deploying our new SANsymphony-V10 virtual SAN software, which is one of the most powerful and scalable systems in the marketplace,” stated Steve Houck, chief operating officer at DataCore Software. “Nexus puts a premium on the importance of the data center as the essential change agent for IT efforts designed to protect, optimize and grow the organization.”
SANsymphony-V10 Virtual SAN: The Ultimate Virtual SAN for the Data Center
DataCore’s new Virtual SAN is a software-only solution that automates and simplifies storage management and provisioning while delivering enterprise-class functionality, automated recovery and significantly faster performance. It offers inexhaustible performance, continuous availability and significant scalability – spanning an N+1 grid (up to 32 nodes) that stretches over metro-wide distances. As Nexus has built its business offering infrastructure architecture to enable organizations to protect critical applications and confidential data, enhance data center operational efficiencies and rapidly create new secure application environments to support new business processes, DataCore’s Virtual SAN is an ideal software platform for Nexus to offer its data center customers.
Nexus customers, who range from small businesses to Fortune 500 and public sector companies, are looking for a unified approach to storage management. With DataCore’s technology, these users can centralize and automate storage management, accelerate the performance of databases and applications, pool storage capacity and protect their data by ensuring continuous availability, whether on virtual machines, physical servers or virtual desktops.