Over the past decade CTOs have been faced with the following central pain points related to their organization's storage solutions. DataCore specifically addresses these issues, providing an exceptional ROI.

Problem 1. Storage system upgrades are difficult

It is a common belief that storage system upgrades are complex and risky, and come with a significant amount of operational disruption.

DataCore allows system upgrades with zero downtime. The migration of your existing infrastructure to a DataCore solution also comes with little or no downtime.

Problem 2. Only about 40% of storage is actually used

Waste is a significant problem when it comes to storage solutions. Gartner estimates that on average, organizations purchase about 60% more storage hardware than actually needed. This is the only way to provide sufficient storage for all the different applications. But this also means that 60% of your investment into storage hardware is wasted.

DataCore dynamically provides storage where needed and so helps your organization almost double the value from your existing infrastructure.

Problem 3. Perfectly good storage is decommisssioned

After each storage upgrade, the old storage is decomissioned. This means that often terabytes of perfectly reliable  storage are thrown out.

DataCore allows your organization to include all legacy storage in the new virtual storage infractructure. This means that you can use the older and slower storage for less demanding tasks like email archiving. DataCore's real-time mirroring will ensure 100% reliability of the old storage.

Problem 4. Complex disaster recovery

Disaster recovery and business continuity planning are often complex and disruptive. Bare-metal recovery at the very least includes the re-imaging of all virtual hosts and the restoration of the affected SANs. During this time, the application servers are often unavailable or their performance is significantly compromised.

With DataCore's multi-path failover, disruptions to the actual end-user can be avoided entirely, as operations continue from the disaster recovery site. As soon as the main site is ready for business again, DataCore will automatically heal all mirrors and restore storage redundancy.

Problem 5. Intelligent storage is expensive

Highly-available application-aware storage is expensive, as it always comes bundled with specialized hardware.

DataCore commoditizes hardware and allows your organization to add on capacities as needed. The actual "brain" of the system will never have to be replaced, but can be expanded as needed. The DataCore investment never depreciates as the software is always upgraded to provide the latest virtualization features.

Problem 6. Performance

Often storage arrays have to be replaced as their performance is not up to the requirements of modern application servers. New high-end disks are expensive and depreciate quickly.

DataCore provides up to one Terabyte of cache, making legacy storage arrays perform up to 50% faster. Please see the following performance benchmarks directly on the DataCore website.

Problem 7. High availability

Switches break, server admininstrators pull the wrong cable, network cards go bad, server rooms flood, fiber cables fail, etc. In other words, even if your organization's storage is backed up in real-time, storage downtime still can happen as long as the actual storage units are not geographically separated and are not connected to the application servers through separate physical paths.

DataCore's high-availability concept includes the physical separation of storage units and the automatic multi-path failover between the different locations.