DataCore SANmelody

Is it for me?

DataCore is a high performance and affordable solution to your SAN (Storage Area Network) needs, and as flexible as you need it to be.

What does it do?

Base Capabilities

The base software package enables you to transform a general purpose PC server into a Powered by DataCore™ disk server with the following features: 

• iSCSI disk emulation
• Support for numerous types of disk drives
• Performance Acceleration - I/O read and write caching
• Secure LUN allocation (access controls)
• Supports Windows Server 2003 Storage Services
• Virtual LUNs
• Intuitive administrative GUI
• Performance displays
• Event logging
• SANmotion

How will it help my business?

Put simply, DataCore will deliver cost and energy savings, simplicity, performance and productivity to your business. 

It can dramatically improve your disk utilisation through storage consolidation, pooling and automated thin storage provisioning that reduces energy and space requirements by as much as 50%. It will reduce operational burden by centralising and automating storage administration across equipment. And you’ll be able to slash planned and unplanned downtime using non-disruptive, automatic failover and failback recovery and disaster recovery techniques. 

All of which means that you’ll increase performance, connectivity and productivity, allowing you to get more work done in less time, and support more users with existing personnel and resources. 

Additionally, your business will reap the rewards from the following features of the product:

• Least costly mechanism to expand disk space beyond existing server capacity 
• No need to deploy another copy of an application on a separate machine just to add disks 
• Addresses broader requirement for higher availability and better data protection by allowing a redundant copy of critical volumes to be kept separate from application servers 
• Enables rapid recovery from catastrophic application server failure by allowing redundant copy to be quickly reassigned to a replacement server without hardware changes 
• Follows familiar approach of commissioning a general purpose server to handle a specialized task 
• Eliminates wasteful disk space that may have been orphaned behind dedicated servers 
• Makes it easy to take advantage of advanced data protection functions when they are needed

Why Codestone?

We’re proud to be a DataCore Gold Partner. We offer a fully managed support service, including off site SAN back up to our Disaster Recovery Data Centre, end user performance monitoring, storage resource monitoring, scheduled maintenance and reporting.