DataCore’s New SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 Empowers Users, Raises Bar for Storage Virtualization
Milestone release enables transformative levels of automation and self-optimization
Fort Lauderdale, FL, February 7, 2007 -- DataCore Software today launched its next-generation, flagship storage virtualization solution, SANsymphony™ Enterprise Edition 6.0, which empowers enterprises with a new level of automation and self-optimizing IT management. This milestone sets a foundation for the future and advances the art of SAN data protection, automation, interoperability and usability.
Data center and IT managers have always wanted to manage their storage infrastructures at a high level instead of administering physical devices at the component or detail level. With SANsymphony 6.0, enterprises finally gain control of their resources at the right level and can truly master their SANs, safeguard their data and assure Quality of Service (QOS) through an agile, efficient and dynamic storage infrastructure that is radically simple to operate.
SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 features include:
New SAN Domains: Intelligent Virtual SANs within the physical SAN which dramatically improve resource, performance, and quality of service (QOS) level management
Far-reaching “Span the SAN” Usability and Productivity Services: allows many operations and policies to be applied against entire groups of resources
Next-Generation N+1 GRID Scalability, Business Continuity, and Data Protection Services: these surpass conventional clustered or dual controller systems in failover protection and time to recovery, as well as ease of configuration, change, and growth
Comprehensive, End-to-End, Multi Path SAN Failover: Across FC, iSCSI, or both, resulting in true “wire agnosticism” without sacrificing enterprise service levels
Advanced Automation, Thin Provisioning, and Smart Auto-Recovery Services: prioritize data volume recovery to speed up critical business applications
Powerful Non-Disruptive Data Migration and Re-Purposing Capabilities
New Classes of Virtualization Services: includes Traveller™ time-addressable CDP volumes
“SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 is the first half of our Virtualization II strategy, and as such it lays the architectural foundation for the future,” said Ziya Aral, Chairman and CTO, DataCore Software. “Many of the changes involved in the Virtualization II platform are internal and will remain largely invisible to the user. What is readily visible, however, is a new level of transparency and integration, grouped operations, and automated management. Several new and important concepts also appear for the first time. In the second half of Virtualization II, these capabilities will continue to be advanced and SANsymphony will be updated with an entirely new 64-bit storage micro-kernel.”
A New User-Driven Era in Storage and SAN Infrastructure Management
With SANsymphony 6.0, DataCore Software ushers in a new era for IT:
Industry-standard storage and infrastructures can be managed as sets of services and shared resources that can be dynamically defined for and allocated to different business units or projects; quality of service (QOS) can be regulated and assured to all clients, including virtual machines
IT managers can regulate and automate adding capacity, data protection levels, and performance non-disruptively based on business demand
Storage hardware failures can be automatically overcome with no or minimal disruption
Business data can be protected with no impact to production SLAs
Applications can be provisioned with storage instantly and recovered at the same or remote locations easily, regardless of the operating system and hardware
SANsymphony virtualization transforms what has been a static view of storage, mired in low-level disk administration, into a dynamic and flexible service level management system, simplifying and automating the provisioning of storage resources to meet user and business application demands.
Pricing and Availability
Prices start at $25,000 (MSRP) and fully configured systems are priced in the $50,000 to $80,000 range, depending on options and scale. SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 is available for shipment today. For more information, visit http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANsymphony.asp
About DataCore Software
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