"The DataCore platform gives us the opportunity of configuring our storage infrastructure flexibly, regardless of whether we expand our SAN in the future, set up a virtual SAN or migrate a data centre. We can respond to actual needs as required regardless of which manufacturer's products we're using."
"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."
“The DataCoreHyper-V combination really fit our needs. I certainly like the virtual environment. I also really like having redundant storage. And having seamless failover was key for us as well.”
“In terms of reducing storage costs, decreasing the time we spend on routine storage tasks, and reducing storage-related downtime, software defined storage from DataCore means we are able to ally business objectives with IT – and through DataCore’s technology, we can meet those objectives.”
“When the real-time operation of the systems started in October, the users were delighted when they saw response times reduced by five percent or more,”
“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.”
“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.”