- DataCore Software
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DataCore Software Corporation Type Private Industry Computer Software Founded 1998 Headquarters 76300 NW 5th Way
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USAArea served Worldwide Key people Ziya Aral, Chairman
George Teixeira, CEO
Roni Putra, CTOProducts SANsymphony-V
SANsymphony
SANMelodyEmployees 125+ (2010) Website www.DataCore.com DataCore Software is an independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking. Founded in 1998, the privately-held firm operates global sales, support and service from headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida along with worldwide subsidiaries and distribution partners. The company's main software product is its SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor.
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History
DataCore was founded on February 4, 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The original team of 12 employees had previously designed and pioneered high-end storage subsystems at Encore Computer. The company was formed with the vision of building portable storage virtualization software to manage and control storage resources and insulate users and applications from storage-related disruptions. The original team worked without pay throughout 1998 before receiving nearly 8 million dollars from angel investors and venture capital firms NEA and Flagship Ventures in January, 1999.[1] DataCore received $30 million of venture capital investment on May, 2008 from Insight Ventures and Updata Partners.[2]
Products
SANsymphony-V Release 8.0 [January 31, 2011]
After two years in development, DataCore released SANsymphony-V on January 31, 2011. SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor and virtualization software enables datacenters to use existing equipment and conventional storage devices to achieve the robust and responsive shared storage environment necessary to support highly dynamic virtual IT environments. SANsymphony-V software solves difficult storage-related challenges introduced by server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing and more general expansion, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives.[3] It forms an active, transparent virtualization layer across disk storage devices to maximize the availability, performance and utilization of data centers of all sizes. The integrated set of centrally-managed data protection, provisioning, caching, replication and migration functions operates uniformly over different models and brands, assimilating current and future equipment non-disruptively. SANsymphony-V speeds up applications, delivers uninterrupted data access and extends the life of tiered storage investments.[4]
SANsymphony V7.0 & Before
SANsymphony software is an open storage management software platform for larger enterprise systems and can manage an unlimited amount of storage while fundamentally improving the way enterprises manage, purchase and scale their storage infrastructure. SANsymphony elevates SAN management, control and automation from the, arduous and limiting, individual device and volume level to higher level constructs such as groupings, storage pools, regions, domains, and attributes such as high availability, channel paths that can be managed on a SAN-wide basis. SANsymphony can thin provision storage capacity, create storage domains, control Quality of Service (QoS), migrate data, accelerate storage performance (read and write caching), and create high-speed snapshots for fast disk-to-disk backup and recovery. SANsymphony also supports both fibre channel and iSCSI connectivity, Scalable N+1 high-availability configurations, advanced prioritized recovery and 'Hot Swap' Thin Provisioning storage pools.[5]
See also
- Storage Hypervisor
- Storage Virtualization
- SAN
References
- ^ StorageNewsletter.com. "Exclusive Interview With the CEO of DataCore." 3 February 2010.
- ^ Virtualization News. "Storage Virtualization Company DataCore Gets $30 Million" 8 June, 2008.
- ^ PCmag.com. "DataCore Introduces SANsymphony-V Virtualization Software." 2011.
- ^ Network Computing. "DataCore Tackles Storage Virtualization Barrier." 2011.
- ^ Clarity IT Advisors. "Frequently Asked Questions about DataCore SANmelody, SANsymphony & SANsymphony-V." 2011.
General references
- DataCore Software: "Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2001"
- DABCC: Who really invented Thin Provisioning?
External links
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