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DataCore Software Broadens Reach of Storage Virtualization with SANsymphony 4.0

New Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance Features Extend Scalable Storage Virtualization from Enterprise to Departmental Organizations

NETWORLD + INTEROP - Las Vegas. (May 7, 2001) - DataCore™ Software, the leading provider of advanced storage virtualization and networking software, has introduced additional disaster recovery and fault tolerance capabilities in the fourth generation of its vendor-independent SANsymphony™ storage pooling software. Already field proven in many of today's large-scale enterprise environments, the new release allows departmental organizations to gain similar benefits of network storage pooling and remote replication services that enterprise customers enjoy today.

SANsymphony 4.0 enhancements include the Asynchronous Internet Mirroring (AIM) option that improves disaster recovery capabilities by allowing organizations to cost-effectively replicate information to off-site locations over their existing Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure. Data availability and fault tolerance features, including SANsymphony's alternate pathing and synchronous mirroring capabilities, have been expanded to provide additional alternatives for mixed operating system environments. Users will also experience improved manageability features that will directly reduce related storage costs.

"Availability of our data is critical to our organization's ability to optimally compete. We face the need to add, upgrade and replicate disks without rebooting or disrupting our business-critical application servers," noted Bill Manning, director for technical services at Plumbers & Pipefitters National Pension Fund. "SANsymphony helps us directly solve the challenge of providing continual access to our data while driving down the costs associated with managing our storage resources."

"Managing increasing storage requirements is a challenge for companies both small and large. All companies need storage management resources that provide continuous access to their data, complete disaster recovery capabilities, enhanced performance, and robust security while decreasing the costs associated with managing these resources," said Ken Horner, DataCore's vice president of marketing. "With the new release organizations of every size have a scalable solution to meet their needs. SANsymphony 4.0 provides companies with a proven storage virtualization approach that lets them centralize and offload storage provisioning from their overworked staff while leveraging their storage hardware from any vendor."

"Enterprises and departments within organizations are reporting exponential data content growth, and with it, an unprecedented need for resources to manage storage infrastructure growth. But their operational resources are finite, so they're facing an uphill climb to manage resources in a cost effective manner," said Dan Tanner, senior analyst, storage and storage management at Aberdeen Group. "Organizations of all sizes need an affordable storage consolidation offering that takes advantage of their current hardware investments."

SANsymphony 4.0 Features
An IT shop with a dozen servers and a terabyte of disk spread over one or two sites has several 'Powered by DataCore' options. The various choices allow customers to place their existing storage under a uniform management umbrella and then replicate vital data inexpensively between sites. All capacity allocation and mirroring are securely controlled from a single workstation at any location, while keeping their applications running. SANsymphony executes independent from customers' application hosts, on advanced virtualization nodes that insulate business processing from storage expansion and allocation. These 'Powered by DataCore' nodes connect to servers over Fibre Channel. Yet the storage pool can include a mix of ordinary EIDE/ATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel and even SSA disks. Conventional LANs and WANs are used to remotely mirror selected portions of the pool's data over IP without any unusual or costly arrangements.

Additional data protection features in SANsymphony 4.0 address sites that have Sun Solaris mixed with Windows servers. As a substitute for host-based mirroring, DataCore offers alternate pathing software that offloads these servers from issuing multiple redundant writes -- the virtualization nodes do all the mirroring. Any disk, link, node or channel failures are automatically bypassed without the application being disrupted. The mirror copies can even be redirected to a new remote location without the user being affected. For those customers who require information to reside in three places, DataCore's optional mirroring capabilities allow administrators to select two separate destinations for mirrored copies. Two copies can be kept locally and one remote or one local and two remote.

Partner Reactions
"Fujitsu Softek offers vendor- and platform-agnostic solutions to simplify and optimize data storage resources, while reducing the risks associated with managing complex storage infrastructures," said F. Scott Kennedy, vice president of business development for Fujitsu Softek, a strategic partner of DataCore. "DataCore provides the storage provisioning foundation software that, combined with our visualization and policy-based storage resource management software, lets Fujitsu Softek's worldwide customers visualize, provision and manage their storage assets."

"Businesses are demanding more from their storage infrastructures, and StorNet is able to satisfy their requirements with 'Powered by DataCore' storage networks. With version 4.0 of SANsymphony, when a company asks us to deliver a disaster recovery solution, we not only can offer them several remote mirroring options, but also compelling operational savings designed to fit their needs and budget," stated Derek Gamradt, chief technology officer, StorNet, Inc., a DataCore SANvantage™ Authorized Partner.

Pricing and Availability
SANsymphony version 4.0 is currently available worldwide through DataCore's SANvantage authorized partners and resellers. Configured virtualization nodes start at under $20,000 and vary with site-specific requirements.

Many of DataCore's installed base of SANsymphony 3.1 users will take advantage of the new capabilities through a simple non-disruptive upgrade. Each virtualization node in a network storage pool can be progressively updated while the other nodes continue to operate as scheduled.

About DataCore Software
DataCore™ Software Corporation is the leader in storage virtualization and networking software. The Company's SANsymphony™ storage infrastructure software converts `islands' of disparate storage into networked storage pools, enabling the easy allocation of storage capacity on an as-needed basis, using a simple 'drag-and-drop' interface. Now administrators can move these 'virtual' volumes among different servers - regardless of the underlying operating system. DataCore distributes its software products through channel and OEM partners worldwide. Founded in 1998 by some of the industry's most respected storage technologists, DataCore is headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., with subsidiaries and branch offices worldwide. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.

DataCore, the DataCore Logo, and SANsymphony are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation.

All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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