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The Infrastructure for the Next-Generation Datacenter

Executive Briefing

10 REASONS TO ADOPT DATACORE SOFTWAREOver 10,000 satisfied clients and more than 30,000 installations worldwide, clients in every sector and of every size, testify to DataCore’s success and innovative spirit. It’s no wonder that we know precisely what it takes to deal with the challenges our clients face. We are there to assist you with a range of solutions aimed at dealing with increasing volumes of data and complex management of a disparate variety of infrastructures. This is why we are in the top ranking in the market of software-defined storage and hyper- converged infrastructure. Whether to boost the performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency, structure for enhanced availability, ensure high availability or business continuity - with DataCore you are always in control.

No Hardware Vendor Lock-In enables greater buying power. With DataCore, you gain the freedom to buy from any hardware vendor which significantly improves cost effectiveness.

Standardized management that works infra-structure-wide including joint administration of classic SAN & hyper-converged infrastructure which substantially reduces operating costs.

Achieve world-record shattering business critical application performance with Parallel I/O technology & DataCore’s self-tuning & adaptive caching.

Protect your most mission critical data with our high-speed, metro-wide auto-failover and auto-failback mirroring which adds a higher level of protection and requires no human intervention.

Investment Protection; Stop the „Rip and Replace“ Cycle. With DataCore software, you can add features as you need them without having to replace your storage hardware.

Future-proof your storage with software-defined flexibility; be ready for whatever comes next. Your infrastructure is ready to bring in new storage innovations and put them to work.

Get the most from what you already own befo-re buying more. DataCore software lets you op-timize the utilization of your storage resources, extending the time to hardware refresh.

Unique Infrastructure-wide Auto-Tiering en-ables optimal performance and cost efficiency. DataCore provides fully automated, infrastruc-ture-wide storage tiering that spans 15 tier levels.

DataCore supports all major Hypervisors, even in mixed environments. Allow your business to enjoy the highest degree of flexibility.

Ensure the highest possible levels of availability with DataCore’s 24x7x365 multi-lingual, around the globe support. Avoid surprise warranty cost increases with DataCore’s predictable and stable support pricing.

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SINGLE PLATFORM FOR EVERY TYPE OF STORAGE CONCEPT

With this comprehensive range of state-of-the-art storage services, you will achieve up to ten times more output, up to a four-fold improvement in capacity utilization, up to 100 percent less storage-related outages and up to 90 percent less time spent on routine storage-related tasks.

Hyper-converged Cluster Converged Server SAN Virtualized Storage Server

Combine compute and storagefor smallest footprint

Separate storage and compute in one chassis

Integrate, manage, and enhance existing storage array(s)

SANsymphony Software-defined Storage PlatformDataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN

NAS/SAN (UNIFIED STORAGE)Supports fast and highly accessible NAS for file sharing (NFS/SMB (CIFS))

CENTRALISED ADMINISTRATIONGreater productivity and administrative efficien-cy; infrastructure-wide control and monitoring of storage pools via a single console

CLOUD INTEGRATIONAccess to cloud storage from a variety of providers; expands storage pools to include external clouds; with a gateway that supports automatic tiering to the cloud

VVOLSGenerically provides the advantages of VMware VVol for all storage systems, regardless of whether they explicitly support them or not; this allows vSphere administrators to make virtual volumes available without having to recognize the storage hardware

ANALYSIS & REPORTINGOffers real-time and historical analysis, ‘heat maps’ to identify I/O bottlenecks; Reporting for capacity planning, tuning and asset tracking

Administation

Only DataCore offers all the relevant storage services in a universally compatible format

DataCore SANsymphony SDS Platform

VIRTUALIZED HOSTS PHYSICAL SERVERS

EFFICIENCYAVAILABILITYSynchronous Mirroring

Snapshots / BackupsCDPAsynchronous Replication

PERFORMANCE High Speed Caching

Random Write Accelerator

Auto-tiering

Quality of Service (QoS)

Thin Provisioning

Storage Pooling

Data MigrationDeduplication/Compression

NAS/SAN (Unified Storage)

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Cloud Integration

MANAGEMENTVVols

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SYNCH MIRRORINGZero downtime, zero touch high availability by continuously mirroring active/active copies bet-ween physically-separate locations accessible to local/metro clusters as shared disks

ASYNCH REPLICATION Fast, simple, remote-site disaster recovery and migration; Maintains distant copies up-to-date without impacting local performance

CDPBusinesses can roll back to a previous point-in-time prior to a disaster, virus attack or other disruptive event without doing an explicit backup

SNAPSHOTS/BACKUPSCaptures point-in-time images quickly across storage devices; efficiently clone system images, speed-up recovery and enable off-line analysis

Availability

STORAGE POOLINGConsolidates like or unlike disks - enabling cost efficient tiering of resources by price-performance and capacity

THIN PROVISIONINGImproves utilization of the storage environment and facilitates cost savings by allocating disk spa-ce according to actual need

DATA MIGRATIONTransparently moves and migrates data; Allows non-stop business operations during data center reloca-tions, VM moves, system refreshes

DEDUPLICATION/COMPRESSIONReduces storage needs in order to save multiple copies of the same data

Efficiency

HIGH-SPEED CACHINGAccelerates disk I/Os and the performance of mission-critical applications by increasing use of available RAM

AUTO TIERINGBased on cost and output, intelligent automated real time optimization of available capacity across a variety of storage classes

RANDOM WRITE ACCELERATORSignificantly increases performance for workloads characterized by many random writes, such as fre-quently updated databases, ERP & OLTP systems

QUALITY OF SERVICES (QOS)Ensures high-priority workloads meet SLAs with predictable I/O performance by regulating resour-ces consumed by lower priority requests

Performance

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When to get started with DataCore!

Let us help you solve your most pressing storage-related challenges by putting our Software-defined Storage or Hyper-converged Virtual SAN platform into action.

Before purchasing Flash or SSDs

When expanding server or desktop virtualization

When developing your Business Continuity, High Availability or disaster

recovery plans

Before your next storage purchase When evaluating hyper-convergedSolutions

Significant advantages for businesses of any size!

� Parallel I/O� Caching� Auto-Tiering

Improved Performance

� Zero Downtime� Zero Touch failover & failback

Reduced Downtimes

� Thin Provisioning� Deduplication/ Compression� Storage Pools

Improved Utilisation

� Centralised Administation� Hardware- independent storage services

Lower Costs

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