DataCore SANsymphony

SANsymphony™ software is an enterprise-class open storage networking platform that maximizes the value from IT assets and boosts business productivity. Customers receive enduring ROI benefits from the comprehensive storage management services provided by the software.

SANsymphony doubles effective disk utilization by pooling disk space from multiple devices and automatically allocating just enough capacity, just-in-time to needy applications. Automating and consolidating storage control easily increases capacity managed per administrator by tenfold. SANsymphony further enhances productivity by eliminating storage-related downtime through non-disruptive provisioning and affordable business continuance options. With these advancements, as well as unprecedented performance and broad connectivity, three times more users can benefit from existing resources.

Many of the benefits derive from advanced techniques that replace labor-intensive, disruptive and time-consuming tasks typically carried out separately for each server and array. Breakthrough hands-free management features include Automated Provisioning of Volumes, flexible Storage Domains, drag-and-drop administration, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication over a broad choice of connections, point-in-time snapshots, and network-wide performance acceleration. These capabilities eliminate wasted time, money and effort to ensure that storage and personnel are most effectively deployed.

As the industry's most powerful independent storage services platform, SANsymphony centralizes control of global disk capacity, quality of service, availability and security using N+1 redundant high-performance network nodes. SANsymphony's consolidated services operate across most disk subsystems (EMC, IBM, HDS, STK, HP, Fujitsu, Compaq, Sun, Dell, LSI, MTI, etc.), network infrastructures, (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Ethernet, IP LANs / WANs) and operating environments (UNIX, Windows, Linux, NetWare, and MacOS).

Automation

DataCore enables you to keep applications well fed with disk space and storage services by consolidating management over all storage resources, then automating capacity provisioning using Thin Provisioning [link this to the Go Green and Thin provisioning page] Volumes. Simple to configure, easy to maintain and devoid of intrusive host-specific drivers, thin provisioning eliminates the guesswork associated with storage provisioning, giving applications the storage they need precisely when they need it. Running low on space? Choose from a broad range of price/performance devices on the market and replenish the reserves -- without affecting any existing configurations, disrupting services or switching software. SANsymphony™ enables you to unintrusively add them to your centrally managed storage pool.

Consolidation

DataCore gives you comprehensive control over diverse storage resources without tying you down to specific hardware. And you license the advanced storage management features only once, rather than repeatedly paying for the same functions with each storage array you buy. Choose SANsymphony™ software to provide the same functions across the entire storage network, even as the hardware changes over time.

Data Protection

DataCore SANsymphony™ software lets you transfer data protection features and processes across generations of storage hardware and even across vendor lines. DataCore extracted the same software features found in robust, highly available storage arrays from the confines of the sheet metal, enabling them to operate across disks large and small, plain or intelligent, independent of supplier. Buy the functionality once and continue to safeguard the business against storage outages, while you get to pick from the best price/performance disk subsystems of the time.

Performance

Fully leverage the swift advancements of the latest CPU, memory and I/O technology to deliver storage performance that keeps pace with your applications -- at an affordable price. Give all your storage devices a boost while leveraging real-time performance monitoring and automated throttle controls to ensure optimal response from all your applications. Purpose-built storage arrays simply can't match the price/performance advantages in the same way - head-to-head benchmarks and customer experiences provide the proof.

Resource Management

DataCore SANsymphony™ collects, displays and acts on key storage indicators from its central role at the heart of the storage network. Because SANsymphony sees every I/O of the storage pool, it can measure and chart disk usage, performance consumption and path configuration, as well as react to changes in real-time to satisfy specified service levels.

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