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The award was given by IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) at this year's Storage Networking World Spring 2003, the premier conference for the data storage industry. "The SNW 'Best Practices in Storage' Awards Program recognizes the imaginative applications of storage technology that have enhanced companies' business," said Maryfran Johnson, editor in chief of Computerworld and one of the programs' judges. "The diverse roster of winners has achieved key storage networking goals, like getting more out of existing resources while cost-effectively protecting mission-critical data -- essential mandates for just about every enterprise." Since installing SANsymphony to automate the management and allocation of storage, Conseco Finance has achieved significant savings. Most notably, the company has doubled its effective capacity utilization and deferred new storage purchases -- despite continually expanding data requirements. Conseco Finance was previously only able to tap 40 percent of its 70 terabytes of high-end capacity; today, its IT team is "buying back" capacity by migrating existing resources under the control of SANsymphony, boosting utilization rates to 85 percent. "The ROI from reconfiguring our entire storage management architecture to take advantage of SANsymphony's capabilities was immediate," said Rod Lucero, chief architect for Conseco Finance. "We recently had an initiative that required nearly 1.4 terabytes of capacity; SANsymphony enabled us to tap previously unavailable resources to meet this need. At a cost of 8 cents per megabyte, we saved $136,000 in storage costs on this one project alone." Conseco Finance makes good use of DataCore's Network Managed Volumes feature of SANsymphony to remove the guesswork from storage allocation, assigning "virtual" volumes to applications and letting the software automatically provision physical space in smaller chunks, only as needed. This capability eliminates over-provisioning, manual labor and downtime needed to resize or repartition volumes and re-configure arrays. As an added benefit, SANsymphony's robust caching capability accelerates I/O performance, improves the efficiency of the business and increases the productivity of applications. DataCore's Asynchronous IP Mirroring feature gives Conseco Finance the industry's most cost-effective disaster recovery offering to back-up critical data from the St. Paul, Minn. company headquarters to a second production data center in Tempe, Ariz., leveraging existing IP networks between the sites. "Like just about every enterprise weathering today's economy, Conseco Finance needed to do more with less," said Ken Horner, DataCore's vice president of marketing. "With SANsymphony, Conseco Finance can extract the full value from its storage assets without the premium cost, eliminating the need to choose between reliability, response time and budget." The complete list of "Best Practices in Storage" Awards Program winners can be found online at www.snwusa.com. About Conseco Finance Conseco Finance Corp., with managed assets of $38 billion, is one of America's largest finance companies. Conseco Finance is a subsidiary of Conseco, Inc. (CNCEQ:OB), headquartered in suburban Indianapolis. About Computerworld Computerworld is the only integrated media company focused exclusively on the information needs of IT Leaders -- those who manage and implement technology in Global 2000 organizations. The company's flagship weekly newspaper -- along with its Computerworld.com website and conference series for IT Leaders -- form the U.S.-based hub of the world's largest (58-edition) worldwide IT media network. Publishing since 1967, Computerworld has been recognized numerous times by Folio: Magazine and the Computer Press Association as the best computer newspaper, is winner of the 2003 Jesse H. Neal Award for "Best News Coverage," and was named to the "Media Power 50" in 2002 by Crain Communications' BtoB Magazine. Winner of more than 70 print and online editorial awards since 1998, Computerworld has a newspaper circulation of 202,000, a total print audience of 1,846,000 (according to IntelliQuest CIMS v.9.0), and an online audience of 800,000 unique monthly visitors (according to DoubleClick). Breaking news and resources for IT Leaders are available at www.computerworld.com. Computerworld is a business unit of IDG, the world's leading technology media, research and event company. IDG publishes more than 300 magazines and newspapers and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (www.idg.net), which comprises more than 330 targeted Web sites in 80 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related events worldwide, and IDG's research company, IDC, provides global market intelligence and advice through 51 offices in 43 countries. Company information is available at www.idg.com. About the SNIA The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization, made up of over 300 companies and individuals spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete, and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For information visit the SNIA Web site at www.snia.org. About DataCore Software DataCore Software Corporation's award-winning software automates and consolidates storage management for enterprise customers worldwide, significantly reducing their costs and increasing the return on investment from information technology assets. The company's SANsymphony™ software sets the standard for open storage networking platforms, supporting all major brands of disk arrays and operating systems. It is available and supported through major OEMs, system integrators and resellers. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com. DataCore, the DataCore logo, Powered by DataCore, Network-Powered Storage, ROI Street Smarts, SANsymphony, SANcentral, SANcollege and SANvantage are trademarks or registered 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. ### Corporate Contact: DataCore Software Corporation (954) 377-6000 pr@datacore.com Media Contacts for DataCore: (954) 377-6000 Megan Sayce msayce@corporateink.com pr@corporateink.com
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