When
businesses change, whether in response to a new opportunity or a competitive
challenge, the applications and the data they depend on have to change too.
That can be really hard with legacy storage solutions, whose rigid boundaries
tend to hold data captive. This is especially true if, as is often the case,
the storage infrastructure has been built up over time out of various “point solutions.”
This creates inefficient data silos that make it hard to optimize the match
between storage capabilities and application needs or take advantage of new
hardware capabilities. Availability and disaster recovery capabilities can
suffer as well.
The Fluid Data™ architecture
from Dell is designed to overcome these storage challenges by making data as
dynamic as the businesses that depend upon it. DataCore is a long-time Dell ISV
partner, and we’ve been working with our reseller partners around the world to
help our customers realize the benefits of Fluid Data. “We have thousands of
DataCore storage hypervisor customers using Dell storage platforms,” says
Carlos Carreras, DataCore’s Vice President of Alliances & Business
Development. “We see many DataCore partners like The Mirazon Group and Sanity
Solutions penetrating non-Dell accounts and leveraging SANsymphony-V to make it
easier for customers to meet their storage needs with Dell solutions.”
The DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor lets Dell resellers seamlessly
harness the Dell Fluid Data architecture and its wide range of products to
address the storage appetite of their customers, including platforms such as
Compellent, EqualLogic, and the PowerVault MD Series. Customers can add these
cost-effective Dell solutions to their storage portfolio without a forklift
upgrade, preserving their storage investments and prolonging the useful life of
existing storage (e.g., moving it down-tier) while leveraging the power of
Fluid Data for increased storage efficiency and performance. The DataCore
storage hypervisor and enterprise-wide
auto-tiering makes it easy to penetrate and refresh existing storage
installations and add new Dell storage to modernize the infrastructure and
lower overall costs. With the SANsymphony Cloud
Gateway, customers can even add popular public cloud hosting services as a
low-cost tier in their storage strategy. With DataCore and Dell, customers get
infrastructure-wide storage management and the compelling benefits of Fluid
Data across all their storage investments.
For DataCore partners, the
new DataCore SANsymphony-V Migration Suite makes it easy to introduce new
customers to Dell storage with completely non-disruptive data migration. The
suite enables a DataCore partner to set up a temporary dual-node SANsymphony-V
installation that can turn a hardware refresh into a zero-impact process. A
pass-through architecture assures that the customer’s environment remains “hot”
the entire time. Users never even know a migration has taken place.
“In customer meetings, I am often met with skepticism that there is no way to
do an easy migration without a lot of disruption. After they see the power of
DataCore storage virtualization software in action, their jaws literally drop
because they cannot believe that it can be that simple to migrate their storage
and VMs,” said Barry Martin, partner and chief technology officer at The
Mirazon Group.
Barry also notes that the heat map recently introduced in SANsymphony-V 9.0 is
an especially powerful analytical tool. “While the migration suite is in place,
you could show the customer all their storage I/O ‘hot spots,’ and where, for
instance, a SSD tier could boost the performance of critical applications.
Being able to give that kind of strategic advice is key to our business
success, and the visual impact makes it all the more powerful.”
These and other features make SANsymphony-V a natural complement to the Dell
Fluid Data architecture. You can start learning more about SANsymphony-V here, or check
out case
studies in a variety of industries and applications to see how the DataCore
storage hypervisor can go to work for you.
SEE DATACORE SOFTWARE
AT THIS UPCOMING DELL EVENT
Dell Storage
Forum Paris 2012
DataCore will be a Petabyte Sponsor at the upcoming Dell Storage Forum.
The event takes place 14-16 November 2012 in Paris. Address follows:
Marriott Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center
17 Boulevard Saint Jacques
Paris, 75014
France
Description
This is a channel partner and an end-user focused event. DataCore will present
the newest version of its storage hypervisor – SANsymphony-V
9.0.
For more information on the show, visit Dell Storage Forum
Paris 2012.
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