DataCore
Products: SANmelody, SANsymphony, Traveller, SANmaestro, UpTempo
- SANmelody
SANmelody™ software converts PC servers into cost-effective disk servers and virtual SANs. Their capacity appears as additional internal drives to disk-starved servers on LANs or SANs. Simple, low-cost networked storage combined with virtual infrastructure enables benefits such as no downtime maintenance, automatic capacity management, and business continuity without spare hardware. This simple solution also eliminates the need to commission extra application servers when the existing systems have no more room to add disks. Advanced options include point-in-time snapshots, auto failover across redundant disk servers, auto provisioning of disk space and long-distance asynchronous replication over IP WANs. These functions are host-independent and operate without occupying resources on the application servers.
To enhance application security and availability, SANmelody-equipped disk servers can maintain up to date copies (mirror images) of critical data currently housed on internal disk drives.
SANmelody accelerates performance through built-in caching that minimizes delays from slower mechanical drives. The software equitably distributes the available disk space to multiple applications spread across several machines by carving out smaller logical disks from larger physical disks. Ethernet iSCSI host connections and Fibre Channel high-bandwidth ports are supported. Like other powerful Windows-based software, SANmelody runs on a wide choice of hardware platforms and disk drives. Windows, Linux, Unix, NetWare and MacOS applications may concurrently take advantage of the added gigabytes or terabytes of external disk space.
- 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).
- Traveller CPR - The Continuous Data Protection & Recovery Solution
Traveller™ CPR is a continuous data protection, recovery and timeshifting platform. It combines true continuous data protection (CDP) with the power, simplicity and flexibility of virtualization. With “dial back the clock” simplicity, Traveller restores data to any prior point in time selected, without impact to production and without the overhead of software agents or other host support. The restored data volumes (known as “MakeTime volumes”) can then be assigned to servers directly from the Traveller interface with a simple mouse click, and are immediately ready for use by applications in production or offline. Traveller enables IT organizations to:
- Protect Business Continuity
- Rapidly Recover Applications, Systems and Files for Immediate Use
- Minimize Data Loss With “Any Point in Time” Recovery Point Objectives
- Streamline, Automate and Add New Flexibility to Backups
- Perform Backups at any time with No Impact to Production
- Improve Productivity by Timeshifting for Parallel Workflow
Traveller protects all systems (Windows, LINUX, VMware, Netware, MacOS, Solaris, AIX, UNIX), applications (e.g. Exchange, SQL, Sybase, Oracle) and all storage types across failover site distances spanning systems, rooms, buildings and campuses.
- SANmaestro
SANmaestro™ software is an analysis and decision support tool that helps you improve capacity planning, resource utilization and quality of service.
SANmaestro monitors, reports, charts, gathers and analyzes system performance and resource utilization information from multiple networked systems.
Obtaining and working with the information necessary to manage assets and resources within a large storage or Windows network can be a formidable task. The network’s scale presents challenges to gathering the data needed for current and future utilization and performance profiling, analyzing the data gathered, and communicating that analysis to those who control IT purchases and budgets. For example, many companies have begun “billing” or “charge-backs” of IT costs to company profit centers or affiliates based on usage or quality of service, but in a large IT environment allocating and auditing usage and service can be a monumental task.
SANmaestro software solves these problems by gathering and helping you analyze and report the critical system performance and utilization data you want and need. SANmaestro software is a powerful and “spreadsheet simple” approach to monitor, analyze and report storage and Windows metrics and information across large or complex environments. It is quick to set up, easy to use, and generates useful reports and charts. Most importantly, it is flexible and can be customized to meet your reporting and analysis needs using a simple spreadsheet tool instead of complex programming environments.
- UpTempo
UpTempo™ is powerful, performance accelerator software for Windows-based systems. It dramatically speeds up applications by making the computer system read and write data to its disk drives more efficiently. It does this by overcoming today’s biggest performance barrier - data input/output (I/O) bottlenecks resulting from slow, mechanical, disk accesses - the most common cause of server and desktop application underperformance. UpTempo software adds the intelligence and predictive self-learning caching algorithms to speed up workloads and maximize I/O throughput. UpTempo improves response times, maximizes system utilization and dramatically enhances user productivity providing a high Return on Investment (R.O.I.).