High-Availability - The DataCore advantage!

DataCore Storage Virtualization Enhances Server Virtualization

DataCore's application transparent high-availabilty and auto failover and failback capabilities slash downtime while protecting your critical business data.

DataCore's storage virtualization software insulates your virtual server environments from the adds, moves and changes in the physical disk configuration.

DataCore's ability to boost the performance of the disk subsystems helps overcome the sluggishness of concentrated I/O workloads.




DataCore helps overcome I/O bottlenecks...accelerates Storage I/O…
Fast Caching and Load Balancing

DataCore does high-availability better…Simple Fail-safe SAN data protection
Insulate Failures Transparent to Applications
Unique Automatic Failover and Failback
Priced right for Small and Mid-size Business
Full-featured HA SAN software [New SAN Starter Packages]
No-penalty upgradability and “future proofed” growth path

Gartner Report: Virtualization Sector to Grow 43 Percent in 2009; ZDE Report Validates Storage Sector as Healthiest in IT

Gartner Report: Virtualization Sector to Grow 43 Percent in 2009
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualization/Report-Virtualization-Sector-to-Grow-43-Percent-in-2009/Despite the recession, global revenue from the sector will surpass $2.7 billion by the end of the year. The biggest market driver? Enterprises' need to reduce the total cost of ownership of its IT systems; green IT is a welcome byproduct.
ZDE Report Validates Storage Sector as Healthiest in IT
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/ZDE-Report-Validates-Storage-Sector-as-Healthiest-in-IT/

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Customer Migration Story - VMware Storage VMotion & DataCore HA - Failsafe Migrations

Whilst recently on site at a large NHS Customer in the North of England, I gave some serious thought to the process of migrations from physical to virtual storage from an existing physical environment and the ramifications in the case of physical disk failure.

It occured to me that if you utilised VMWare's Storage VMotion and DataCore's High-Avaliability [HA] offering, it was possible to do a seamless, on the fly data migration from physical storage into a DataCore virtual volume, whilst remaining protected from physical disk failure at the destination.

It is often said that the most common time for a disk drive to fail is within 2 hours of being booted for the first time, and whilst 99% of us perform rigorous soak testing beforehand, there is still a chance that a disk will fail mid-migration and severely delay a project at the very least. At the very worst, it can potentially corrupt the data being transferred leading to a full recovery scenario.

If physical failure of the destination occured in this DataCore scenario, then the destination volume would merely switch over to it's highly available partner and the migration would continue seamlessly. A large reassurance in the case of this customer, whilst migrating mission critical, real time data in a 24-Hour environment.