World
Premier and Press Event at Cebit 2015
“We are
pleased to launch our new Hyper-Converged Solutions with DataCore and to take
the concept of convergence to the next level. In this digital age, businesses
can grow very quickly and they need datacenter infrastructure that delivers
scalability and improves resilience. With DataCore’s expertise in the
Software-defined storage area and Huawei’s experience in providing cutting-edge
ICT infrastructure such as high performance servers, storage and SSD cards, our
Hyper-Converged Solutions help businesses build a seamless architecture to
compete in a fast-changing environment,” said Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of
Huawei’s IT product line.
Mr. Zheng Yelai, President of Huawei’s IT
product line and George Teixeira, CEO and President, DataCore Software launch
global partnership at Cebit 2015
Combination
of state-of-the-art Huawei FusionServer with DataCore’s proven Software-Defined
Storage software delivers easy-to-use and scalable hyper-converged solutions
addressing Microsoft, VMware and business-critical application environments
requiring continuous availability, high performance and simplified management.
Huawei,
a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions
provider, and DataCore Software, a leader in
software-defined storage and converged Virtual SAN solutions, announced at the
world’s largest IT trade show event at Cebit in Hannover, Gremany the launch of
a new line of jointly certified Hyper-Converged Solutions. The first result of
the strategic partnership between the two companies combines Huawei’s advanced FusionServer series with DataCore’s
SANsymphony™-V10 software.
Optionally, Huawei’s Oceanstor high-performance Flash-based SSD storage systems
and existing legacy storage systems can be easily added via iSCSI or Fibre
Channel connectivity to grow and extend system capabilities beyond the server
attached limitations of most other hyper-converged appliance offerings. The new
DataCore and Huawei Hyper-Converged Solutions are available for shipment this
month and are designed to address the customer need for simple,
high-performance and scalable virtual SANs and hyper-converged solutions
required in today’s dynamic data center and IT environments.
With the combined Huawei and
DataCore hyper-converged solutions, customers can realize the comfort of
deploying state-of-the-art server and storage technology from Huawei with a
flexible and comprehensive software-defined solution from DataCore that has
already been proven in mission-critical applications at over 10,000 customer sites.
Alex
Best of DataCore and Jorg Karpinski from Huawei present the compelling value
proposition
The new hyper-converged
solutions deliver exceptional performance and the highest levels of
availability to meet growing business demands within larger-scale enterprises.
The Huawei FusionServer series of rack servers, blade servers, and data center
servers are designed to address the wide range of customer demands required to
build fast, reliable and efficient IT infrastructures that best suit their individual
business needs. Combined with DataCore’s software-defined storage services
platform, these solutions are able to virtualize, enhance and derive the utmost
productive value from a company’s present and future investments.
“The
partnership between Huawei and DataCore opens up our ability to target a
largely unfulfilled segment of the marketplace and answer the need for
hyper-converged solutions at a whole new price performance level,” said George
Teixeira, president and CEO of DataCore. "Huawei and DataCore have teamed
together to fulfill the customer need for fast, affordable and simple-to-use
Hyper-Converged Solutions and Virtual SANs that support legacy systems as well
as new Microsoft virtualization and Hyper-V projects and mixed VMware ESXi environments
running critical applications such as SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, SAP, Oracle
and VDI.”
Complete
end-to-end solutions
DataCore and Huawei partners
can now provide 100% Huawei hardware solutions, end to end, covering storage,
network, and compute needs in order to provide complete datacenter solutions
with state-of–the –art enterprise storage capabilities. These solutions provide
enterprise-class storage features for both self-contained hyper-converged
solutions as well as architectures that allow independent scaling of storage
and compute, all connected by a Huawei-powered network fabric. Optionally, new
Huawei OceanStor storage systems or existing legacy external storage arrays
from third parties can also be easily integrated and managed as part of these
combined solutions when needed to meet current or future business requirements.
DataCore SANsymphony-V combined
with Huawei offers multiple solution use cases, including:
An ideal
hyper-converged solution for Microsoft and mixed Hyper-V and VMware projects - The certified DataCore and Huawei
FusionServer RH Series based hyper-converged solutions include pre-installed
Microsoft server software and is delivered optimized to support demanding
Microsoft applications and virtualization projects as well as mixed Hyper-V and
VMware environments running business critical applications such as Microsoft
SQL server, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics ERP, SharePoint, Exchange, SAP and VDI.
These solutions are simple and quick to install and easy to use thereafter.
Metro-clustering
for business continuity and disaster recovery – The new hyper-converged solutions have undergone rigorous joint
testing and are currently scalable to 64 nodes, yet they require only two nodes
minimum to provide fault tolerant data protection and data services. Two or
more Huawei based server nodes can be used to pool external storage to easily
form a stretch cluster over multiple datacenters. With this, organizations can
reliably introduce DataCore’s proven zero-touch failover to provide
mission-critical resilience and non-stop data in disaster scenarios. Huawei and
DataCore partners can easily enable a broader set of enterprise customers with
application availability and mobility, regardless of storage infrastructure, by
combining DataCore with Huawei technologies. Asynchronous replication can be
enabled to provide further protection in DR scenarios, including failover to public
cloud services.
Extreme
acceleration for mission-critical business applications – Huawei servers provide a multitude of Direct Attached Storage
(DAS) hard drive and flash media options. Combined with SANsymphony-V software,
these can be used to deliver data via Fibre Channel or iSCSI to external
application clients or internally to applications or VMs inside the FusionCube
Converged Infrastructure. DataCore’s write optimization technologies can
accelerate random IOPS hard drive performance to match performance associated
with Flash SSD media capabilities. DataCore’s new breakthrough Random Write
Accelerator capability, an innovation designed to highly optimize random
write processing, can boost speeds up to 30 times faster depending on workloads,
especially for transaction-oriented applications such as databases and ERP
systems. DataCore’s real-time auto-tiering capabilities and ‘heat map’
visualization tools automate and simplify the movement and management of data
hotspots to high-performance storage media and can be used to accelerate SAN
storage with DAS flash.
Infrastructure-wide
storage services; hyper-converged plus external SAN pooling via Huawei for
end-to-end connectivity and management – Modern IT infrastructures often contain a complex mix of
incompatible legacy SAN arrays and emerging storage products. Storage systems
can be easily connected to a DataCore-powered Huawei server or rack to
eliminate storage silos. Data can be easily replicated, migrated, and tiered
across previously incompatible storage products while new products can easily
be brought on-line. Thin provisioning, pioneered by DataCore, allows capacity
to be added efficiently, automatically or on-demand, as needed.
With DataCore software,
Huawei’s servers and storage products are now able to be easily pooled and
integrated with existing storage from a variety of vendors, including EMC,
Hitachi, HP, IBM and NetApp. DataCore’s automated caching and tiering
technologies also make it easy to leverage the power and resources of Huawei’s
servers to accelerate performance over a company’s entire infrastructure of
storage assets. This combination supports powerful features like metro-wide
shared storage for clusters and business continuance, and automates the
optimization, provisioning and migration of data storage across the diversity
of new or installed disk and flash-based technologies.
Huawei
and DataCore -- Partners in Action
“We are excited about DataCore
Software's comprehensive enterprise storage software capabilities and how they
strongly complement our extensive practice,” states Uwe Kramer, general manager
at Systems Integrator Kramer & Crew. “DataCore’s Software-Defined Storage
technology combined and certified with powerful Huawei IT systems allows us to
help customers achieve business agility with highly flexible and performant
hyper-converged solutions. With the cooperation of systems integrators like
Kramer & Crew, we are able to provide comprehensive services for implementation,
maintenance and monitoring of state-of-the-art IT infrastructure from one
single source and help customers to easily meet their objectives around
business-critical data.”
Pricing
and Availability
The
Huawei and DataCore Hyper-Converged Solutions will
be available for shipment in Q2, 2015. List prices start at
around €20.000.
Additional
product information: [Huawei and DataCore
Hyper-Converged Solution Brief] and [Huawei and DataCore
Whitepaper on Oracle OLTP Performance Acceleration]
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