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DataCore Software Broadens Reach of Storage Virtualisation With SANsymphony 4.0

New Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance Features Extend Scalable Storage Virtualisation from Enterprise to Departmental Organisations

Reading - UK (May 8, 2001) -- DataCore™ Software, the leading provider of advanced storage virtualisation 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 organisations 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 organisations to cost-effectively replicate information to off-site locations over their existing IP (Internet Protocol) 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.

"7 GLOBALs success depends on providing our clients with reliable access to critical business information," commented Graham Crich, Senior VP of Strategic Partnerships, 7 Global. "We face the need to add, upgrade and replicate storage without disrupting our clients business-critical applications and data. SANsymphony helps 7 directly solve the challenge by providing extremely high performance continual access to data while also driving down the costs associated with managing our multi-vendor 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," says Ken Horner, DataCore's vice president of marketing. "With the new release organisations of every size have a scalable solution to meet their needs. SANsymphony 4.0 provides companies with a proven storage virtualisation approach that lets them centralise and offload storage provisioning from their overworked staffs while leveraging their storage hardware from any vendor."

Enterprises and departments within organisations are reporting exponential data content growth and with it, 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. Organisations of all sizes need an affordable storage consolidation offering that takes advantage of their current hardware investments.

SANsymphony 4.0 Features
An IT organisation 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 virtualisation 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 version 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 virtualisation 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, including the new AIM, 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 optimise 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 visualisation and policy-based storage resource management software, lets Fujitsu Softek's worldwide customers visualise, provision and manage their storage assets."

Pricing and Availability
SANsymphony version 4.0 is currently available worldwide through DataCore's SANvantage™ authorised partners and resellers. Configured virtualisation nodes start at under Ѓ15,000 and vary with site-specific requirements.

Many of DataCore's installed bases of SANsymphony 3.1 users will take advantage of the new capabilities through a simple non-disruptive upgrade. Each virtualisation 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 virtualisation 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: 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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