DataCore Offers SANs to SMBs and SMEs

October 22, 2007: DataCore has announced a new suite of ‘transplantable’ iSCSI SAN and disaster recovery solutions that it reckons are perfect for SMBs and SMEs.

The company says its new range of Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) Acceleration Bundles have been designed specifically for small and midsize businesses and enterprises, enabling them to implement iSCSI Virtual SANs and fault tolerant shared storage for virtual server systems, and do it without completely breaking the bank.

The firm claims its SANmelody-based, bundled solutions, which range from US$1000 (AU$1115) to US$20,000 (AU$22,300), make it possible for any business to get started with virtualisation.

Backed by a DataCore virtual SAN, the solution includes advanced storage management, fast disk I/O performance acceleration and thin provisioning. According to the company it also features SANmotion data migration, remote site disaster recover and auto-recovery high availability.

Coming in several different bundles, the solution can be upgraded as required, and done so by merely paying the difference in price.

The Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) Acceleration SAN Bundle is the first of these. Designed with SMBs in mind, the solution supports multiple terabyte thin provisioning storage pools, SANmotion and self-learning caching algorithms for performance acceleration. Next, the VIF Business Continuity Acceleration BC Starter Bundle for SMEs includes these features plus adds shared storage SAN fault tolerance, auto failover and recovery and high availability that spans multiple sites synchronously.

Finally the VIF Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Acceleration BC/DR Bundle for SMEs includes Campus-wide local auto failover and recovery SAN, plus long distance remote site storage replication over IP connections.

“Our VIF and DR packages are value rich offerings aimed at solving the real world storage problems faced by smaller businesses. The bundles provide a solid stepping stone for SMBs considering affordable shared storage for virtual server deployments, iSCSI storage networking and/or disaster recovery solutions for the first time and for the long term,” said George Teixeira, CEO and president, DataCore Software Corporation.

“Virtualisation and iSCSI storage networks are major forces driving cost savings and modernisation in large businesses and data centres worldwide,” added Teixeira. “The impact on small and midsize companies will be equally profound; therefore, we created these solutions and priced them to accelerate adoption - so that any SMB can afford their own virtual SAN.”

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