Channel Partners Find the SANsymphony-V
Storage Hypervisor Essential for
Solving Customers’ Most Pressing Data Storage
Challenges
DataCore Software announced that resellers are supporting the new release of
DataCore’s SANsymphony-V 9.0 storage hypervisor to
address the top storage challenges their customers are facing, including:
budgetary constraints, systems performance, application uptime and the need for
flexibility and freedom of choice. DataCore reseller partners serve as trusted
IT solutions and services providers, solving significant storage and business
challenges for their customers.
“The trend to virtualize storage-intensive, tier 1 applications
like databases and mail systems has really pushed the limits of performance and
business continuity for many storage architectures,” explained Jason Cherveny,
president and CEO, Sanity Solutions, a DataCore reseller partner. “DataCore
makes it practical to help clients meet their demanding application needs and
not have to rip and replace everything to do it.”
Moreover, according to Barry Martin, partner and chief technical
architect of The Mirazon Group, another IT solutions provider and DataCore
partner, “Chief among the obstacles our customers are facing is flexibility of
storage. The challenges we hear range from affordability of technology to
overcoming performance roadblocks to ensuring non-stop business operations and
uptime through high availability. Most organizations have multiple concerns and
every customer comes to us with a different perspective on what is most
important to them.”
A large hospital that recently engaged Mirazon was a perfect
example of the wide variety of problems that organizations face with their
storage environments. Chiefly, they needed to replicate data to a disaster
recovery (DR) site and required a solution that would ease the migration to
their next storage array of choice.
“SANsymphony-V is the ideal, flexible software platform for
building completely virtualized infrastructures,” continued Martin. “In fact,
we run our business on a SAN powered by DataCore SANsymphony-V. I can tell you
from our own internal use of the product, and as a small business, that it has
provided us with a very robust SAN at a very affordable price, one that is
built to our precise needs and specifications. This is exactly why we deploy
the DataCore storage hypervisor for our customers. As with us, it gives them
the ability to have both choice and control of their storage.”
Freedom
of Choice and More: Performance and Uptime
“SANsymphony-V 9.0 is the latest version of an intelligent
virtualization solution from an experienced, independent software provider with
no bias for specific hardware manufacturers,” stated Jim Steinlage, president
and CEO at Choice Solutions, a DataCore reseller partner.
Resellers also emphasize the performance enhancements that
SANsymphony-V 9.0 delivers.
“DataCore’s storage hypervisor improves performance and protects
the investments of any legacy equipment our customers already own as well as
equipment they purchase in the future,” explained Martin. “SANsymphony-V 9.0
simply makes any storage faster, while delivering maximum ROI.”
Resellers agree that SANsymphony-V 9.0 solves perhaps the most
pressing of all IT challenges – uptime. With synchronously mirrored copies each
running the storage hypervisor, customers can perform maintenance of their SAN,
even in the middle of the day, without disruption to end users. It also allows
customers to eliminate storage downtime, which is paramount for avoiding
performance issues with all other aspects of their virtualized infrastructure,
including servers, desktops and tier 1 applications. This uptime is not just
critical to resellers meeting the maintenance needs of their customers, but
also for building out or replacing backend disks and storage arrays.
“If a storage array is front-ended by DataCore, we can literally
expire those disks, add new storage and bring that into the pool with zero
downtime,” noted Martin.
Resellers
Praise Enhancements to SANsymphony-V
“DataCore is ‘on the move,’” added Martin. “They have demonstrated
very well over the past year and a half that they are taking SANsymphony-V to
the enterprise after experiencing tremendous success in the SMB space. What we
are seeing in SANsymphony-V 9.0, and what we have been exposed to in terms of
features beyond release 9.0, removes all barriers to selling the product to any
organization – small or large. From a business standpoint, it’s a great time to
partner with DataCore Software.”
DataCore development is primarily driven by direct partner and
customer feedback. According to resellers, the following enhancements to
SANsymphony-V 9.0 are proving particularly effective, listed
in order of significance:
·
Auto-tiering and Heat Map Fine Tuning for optimal performance and
SSD utilization
·
Integration with major system monitoring tools (i.e., Microsoft,
VMware, Hitachi and SNMP)
·
Scalability and High-Availability: N+1 grid, scale up and out
·
Multi-site replication and recovery: many-to-one, one-to-many, DR
readiness test mode
“We love working with DataCore and providing solutions to our
customers based on the SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor,” concluded Cherveny.
"DataCore enables us to solve tough problems, perform non-disruptive
migrations and cost-effectively insert new technologies like flash storage into
customers’ existing infrastructures.”
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