102 DataCore Software Testimonials

"We are happy with our DataCore investment and we are benefiting from the many functional and financial benefits of putting it in use. The SAN now enables flexibility in administration, ease of expansion and the ability to dynamically allocate storage where and when we need it. DataCore caching accelerates overall performance and delivers a much higher data throughput. The software approach ensures the ease of transfer and the ability to use SAN-wide features on different hardware arrays and devices. Thus it is a very cost-effective way to mirror data. For our demanding ERP application, the fact that we could run FusionIO Solid State Disks under the DataCore virtualization and management solution was critical. We gained tremendous performance from adding FusionIO SSDs and overall we reduce energy and cooling costs."

“Budgetwise and performance-wise, SANmelody won out. The performance numbers on SANmelody are right there with any of the top vendors and we are able to use servers that would either be doing nothing or would be offered up for auction. The main business drivers for going with SANmelody were the price point, the scalability, as well as the breadth of storage services that can be taken advantage of with the product.”

“We are a 24/7 operation and while products are important, our main priority is providing safe, high-quality, efficient care to the community we serve. As a state-of-the-art healthcare facility, there are greater expectations and zero tolerance for error – whether in IT or the OR (operating room).”

“The original decision to go with DataCore boiled down to numbers – particularly the fact that Pee Dee Electric could get twice as much storage and better performance in going with DataCore. For the cost of one EMC SAN, we were able to deploy synchronously mirrored, DataCorepowered virtualized storage servers and achieve everything Pee Dee Electric wanted as far as high availability. We were able to give them more storage, better performance, as well as fault tolerance. They would not have had this had they stuck with the single EMC SAN.”

“We do not know what will happen in five years’ time as far as IT ‘must haves’ and industry innovations. Even though nothing is planned as yet, we are considering desktop virtualization. If that is the case – we know we will require another set of storage devices and those will be managed by another SANsymphony-V powered storage virtualization platform, which we will deploy at that time.”

“The gains we have achieved by deploying DataCore technology to virtualize storage resources include increased reliability, performance, and peace-of-mind for all of us. We also benefit from centralized management, from being able to consolidate servers, as well as less refresh of hardware. Using SANsymphony-V for storage virtualization has improved the utilization of the firm’s existing hardware onehundred times over.”

“I can now sleep at night and the time that I spent dealing with the storage I now use for something else. We are really happy with the purchase.” He continued, “Up until earlier this year, we had the classic silos of individually hard-wired servers. Each server could only control and use its own little storage area, the internal disks that were directly attached. We were running out of space as our requirements grew. We were operating on less and less space and had no flexibility to port a server that did not have any space left to one that had an excess of storage space available.”

“Beyond providing me consolidation and capacity, SANmelody currently supports the whole VMware infrastructure at Rocklin USD and it is working very well. One of the biggest things I have seen so far is the flexible way that I can manage my environment. I can look at all my servers at-a-glance and see whether we are having problems with one, or whether any are over-taxed. Again, with DataCore thin provisioning and optimizing the storage utilization in support of our VMware systems, I get excellent utilization of servers and storage and I see no reason to add more physical machines from here on out. Going virtual is good.”

"Recently, we had a meeting with another school district, and, within one hour of talking about server costs and replacement costs, the district made the bold decision to move everything out of their data center this summer and into ours. They see that costs are just so much less when we can consolidate and put all the servers in our VMware, DataCore and Xiotech environment for them."

"This is Samsung Server's first partner supplied business solution. We have worked hard to understand user requirements and evaluated a number of solutions for well over a year. We are now confident that DataCore is the right solution. The price performance makes these systems a compelling solution. The combination of Samsung systems and DataCore software will enable SMB customers to better manage their growing storage and gain the flexibility and data protection infrastructures they need at surprisingly cost-effective prices."

“The ramifications of this seamless install have been far reaching for PWS trading patterns, from responsiveness of each transaction through to allowing us to add parameterised product navigation, and expand our entire product portfolio, safe in the knowledge that changes will be implemented instantaneously giving our clients the best possible experience.”

“Like all things in IT, dramatic improvements to the infrastructure remain invisible to the user who only notices when things go wrong. But in this instance, no one could fail to notice the dramatic leaps in performance that was now afforded. That was the second stage of our plan completed.”

"Downtime for maintenance and provisioning new servers is not acceptable. To enable this, we have used a combination of two IBM servers along with DataCore's SANmelody to provide a synchronously mirrored high availability architecture."

“What used to take me an hour and a half of on some of the more involved processes I run on the SQL server – like defragging the indexes – takes me about three minutes now that DataCore powers the virtualized storage platform.”

“If we are under-utilizing our resources then in a sense it is wasted money. In terms of resource utilization, we can get over 80% utilization of our storage investment with DataCore. Make no mistake about it – the attraction to DataCore for us was that it is not a hardware devicebased SAN solution. The software-based approach of DataCore was absolutely ‘key’ for us. Hardware is hardware. The bottom-line for us is that DataCore allows us to do a lot of the things we already knew were possible in the virtualization world, but with storage.”