DataCore Parallel I/O Software Takes the Gold in the Storage System Software Category of Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Products of the Year Awards

DataCore, the leader in Parallel-Powered Software-Defined Storage, Application-Adaptive Data Infrastructure and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN solutions, today announced that its Adaptive Parallel I/O software was named a Gold winner in the Storage System Software category of the 2015 Products of the Year Awards announced this month by Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com. The awards, presented annually by the editors of TechTarget's Storage Media Group, were judged by the Storagemagazine/SearchStorage.com editorial staff, in conjunction with a team of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants.

The judging panel rated DataCore^TM Adaptive Parallel I/O first in performance among the 13 finalists in the Storage System Software category. Comments from the judges included that there is nothing else like DataCore's Adaptive Parallel I/O on the market, and one called the software "potentially revolutionary." Another noted that most software-defined storage products, or storage virtualization, are not capable of parallel I/O.

The award comes on the heels of DataCore setting a new world record for price-performance in the Storage Performance Council's SPC-1, the industry's most recognized and peer reviewed storage benchmark. Due in large part to the breakthroughs of parallel I/O technology that harnesses the untapped power of multi-core processors, DataCore achieved an audited SPC-1 Price-Performance of $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS, making it the number one result for SPC-1 Price-Performance overall. This result was certified with DataCore's SANsymphony and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software featuring parallel I/O technology on a powerful 2U Lenovo System x3650 M5 multi-core server featuring Intel® Xeon E5-2600 v3 series processors. On this same platform, DataCore also booked record-breaking response times of 0.32 milliseconds at 100% load. At the incredibly fast 0.32 milliseconds response time, the results are 3x-10x better than all other reported results including those from all-flash arrays and million dollar plus systems.

Additionally, DataCore received a Silver Stevie Award for the Front-Line Customer Service Team of the Year - Technology Industries Category of The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service in March, the world's leading sales, business development, contact center, and customer service awards. This tops off a banner year for DataCore in 2015 when its SANsymphony-V and DataCore Hyper-Converged Virtual SAN both received the Virtualization Review 2015 Editor's Choice Awards, with DataCore SANsymphony-V being called one editors' "favorite technology product in 2015." The readers of Storage-Insider and IT Business also awarded SANsymphony-V with the Reader's Choice Award for Best Software-Defined Storage.

Furthermore, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) named DataCore Software's SANsymphony-V the "Best Enterprise Solution for Software-Defined Storage" in the EMA Radar Report for Enterprise Software-Defined Storage. DataCore SANsymphony-V was named a category value leader in the same report.

"Why Partners Build their Practice Around DataCore"

Here is an interesting article stating the DataCore case for partners taken from the VMblog. (www.vmblog.com)

We couldn't agree more!

DataCore Makes High-Availability SANs Practical for a Slew of New Storage Virtualization Customers

and here are a couple of choice quotes if you don't have time to link through right now:

• "With DataCore, the client can pick their favorite hardware vendor and even mix and match them,” Rettig said. “When the requirements encroach on the system’s limits, we can non-disruptively upgrade what they have with faster, newer technology, possibly from a different supplier who offers better price/performance at the time."
• “DataCore enables us to put together solutions for our clients that fit within their budgets,” explained Rettig. “What is more, we feel strongly that our clients are getting robust, enterprise-level SANs at SMB prices.”
• “A real differentiator for DataCore is their elegant approach to dual-node redundancy, coupled with auto-failover and auto-failback, as well as physical separation of disk arrays to eliminate storage-related disruptions,” commented Rettig. He also admits that a big advantage of DataCore is that it is an open platform, which enables his team to tailor the hardware components to each customer’s manufacturer preferences."