DataCore,
a leader in software-defined storage and converged virtual SAN
solutions, today announced at Dell World 2014 that it has become a
certified Dell
Technology Partner. The program certification recognizes DataCore
for successfully passing the rigorous testing process required to
validate the integration and interoperability of its software on Dell
PowerEdge server platforms. The partnership instills customer confidence
and gives enterprise IT greater flexibility and more freedom to choose
certified, pre-tested platforms and infrastructures that combine
industry-leading Dell PowerEdge servers and storage with DataCore’s
software-defined storage software solutions.
DataCore SANsymphony-V
and Virtual
SAN software transform Dell
PowerEdge servers into fully featured software-defined storage
servers that are able to virtualize, enhance and derive the utmost
productivity from a company’s present and future storage investments.
DataCore’s powerful software solutions enable Dell’s PowerEdge servers
and the full range of Dell’s storage products to be easily integrated
with all the popular brands and models of installed storage and solid
state disk technologies regardless of the original vendor. With DataCore
software, it is easy to leverage Dell PowerEdge performance acceleration
over the entire infrastructure of storage assets. The combination
supports powerful features like metro-wide shared storage for clusters
and business continuance, and automates tiering, provisioning and
migration of data storage across the diversity of new or installed disk
and flash-based technologies.
Dell and DataCore solutions combine to deliver enterprise-class
performance and highest levels of availability. In addition, Dell
PowerEdge servers and DataCore Virtual SAN software make an ideal
solution for the mid-market, especially for Microsoft virtualization
projects and mixed Hyper-V and VMware environments running business
critical applications such as SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, Dynamics, SAP,
Oracle and VDI. In these use cases, DataCore users report nearly a 100
percent reduction in storage-related downtime, storage costs decreased
by up to 75 percent and I/O performance improvements of virtualized
applications by up to 10x.
DataCore is showcasing its DataCore Ready Software-Defined Storage (SDS)
software running on Dell PowerEdge servers at the Dell World 2014
conference this week in Austin, Texas. Attendees, please stop by
DataCore’s Booth, #3E20A, to meet the DataCore team and learn more about
the newest DataCore and Dell solutions.