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Virtualization Forum 2007 DataCore Software Showcases Virtual iSCSI...

DataCore Software, the leading vendor of hardware independent, storage virtualisation SAN solutions, today announced that it will showcase its storage virtualisation thin provisioning, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions at the Virtualisation Forum 2007 (Sydney October 4, 2007). DataCore does for storage what VMware does for servers, providing users with dramatically improved disk utilisation through automated thin provisioning, in addition to advanced data protection and the flexibility to easily manage storage and its growth. VMware users can evaluate the cost saving impacts of thin provisioning and SAN virtual storage by simply downloading DataCore's free to try storage server software are available at: www.datacore.com/VMstoragefoundation

Real-life Scenarios: Virtualising and Integrating Storage and Server Infrastructures

Melbourne-based Kingston City Council recently virtualised and integrated seamlessly its storage and server infrastructures using DataCore SANmelody and VMware ESX servers. Kingston had numerous servers with directly attached storage, making administration and the sharing of storage across systems difficult at best. "DataCore's SANmelody provided our business with the technology to build an active cluster in production - ensuring we have maximum uptime, almost identical to what we have achieved by implementing VMware ESX for our server infrastructure," stated Kevin Chan, IT infrastructure manager, Kingston City Council.

"It's become indispensable," said DataCore and VMware user Ryan Engh, IS Infrastructure Manager, Wasatch Advisors. "Before DataCore, we were buying more storage than we actually needed at any time because we had to over-allocate to make sure that the capacity was there when we needed it. Now, with DataCore thin provisioning, we only allocate what we need when we need it. We've dramatically reduced our storage over-capacity, and we have effectively reduced our costs and energy footprint by more than 50%."

The Power of Thin Provisioning: Revolutionising Storage Management and Promoting Energy Savings Worldwide

Thin provisioning is revolutionising storage management and energy savings in data centres around the world, but most potential users have limited access to the technology because vendors restrict their thin provisioning solutions to work only with their own higher priced storage arrays and disks. DataCore's affordable, hardware independent, thin provisioning software solutions enable any business to fully participate in the cost saving benefits of virtualising and consolidating storage. By offering storage virtualisation and thin provisioning as a complete solution, DataCore gives users the two-punch combination required to knockout inefficient storage proliferation and its damaging consequences to their businesses and our world.

"Green" Technology Promotes Energy Efficiency, Saves Money and Is Now Available to All to Try

DataCore thin provisioning non-disruptively and automatically allocates physical storage capacity to application servers only when it is actually used. This dramatically improves storage utilisation and can reduce the total number of disk drives required, and the energy needed to operate and cool them, by half or more.

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