N-TEC Appliances With DataCore Hypervisor

DataCore Software Corporation announced that N-TEC GmbH, a European system builder and storage vendor, will build and deliver a range of storage appliances under the new DataCore Ready programme, which is designed to help system builders grow their storage business and serve the increasing market demand for easy to use storage solutions.

The DataCore Ready programme is for system builders to develop turnkey storage systems and appliances based on DataCore's SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor. As one of the first partners to announce solutions under this new programme, N-TEC has launched a new RapidCore Storage Appliance product line which comes pre-installed with DataCore's storage hypervisor software. The N-TEC RapidCore Storage Appliance provides SMBs a solution to meet the needs of managing storage growth and the growing demand driven from virtualisation projects for BC and performance.

The 'Powered by DataCore' N-TEC RapidCore Storage Appliance is available as a one-stop turnkey solution offering from N-TEC with pricing for hardware, software, installation, support and services all included. The flexibility and simplicity provided by these pre-configured appliances make them a SAN solution for SMBs. The built-in storage hypervisor software ensures HA for BC, performance, resource efficiency and ease of administration.

"Businesses are demanding affordable, reliable, universal and scalable storage solutions. The storage hypervisor software from DataCore complements the N-TEC portfolio ideally. We are very excited about the collaboration and the rapid certification of the solution", says Sven Meyerhofer of N-TEC. "With the N-TEC RapidCore Storage Appliance 'powered by DataCore' we now offer a cost-effective turnkey high-availability solution that integrates the industry's most advanced storage technologies in an appliance form factor that anyone can easily use."

The RapidCore Storage Appliance is available in three versions ranging in capacity from 2 to 64TB. Additional storage devices can be integrated and expanded to add capacity on-the-fly. The solution supports SATA, SAS or SSD storage devices, both iSCSI or FC connectivity are available either included or as an option. HA via a continuous mirroring design prevents downtime and data loss. In addition, features thin provisioning, automatic failover and failback multipathing (MPIO) and asynchronous replication are integrated within the appliances. The management of the appliance is based on a GUI to administer and perform operations via wizards, automation and simple mouse clicks.

"Over many years, N-TEC has established itself as a major manufacturer of storage solutions in the German/European market, that makes N-TEC an ideal first partner to launch our DataCore Ready Programme for system builders. The RapidCore Storage Appliance is a high-performance solution that is cost-effectively priced to address the growing market for virtualisation projects in the SMBs environments. With this partnership, DataCore opens up the larger volume market potential available to SAN appliances who demand a one-stop turnkey solution", says Siegfried Betke, director of business development and CE strategic channel sales at DataCore.

The DataCore Ready Programme
It identifies solutions that are trusted to enhance SANsymphony-V Storage Hypervisor-based infrastructures. While DataCore solutions inter-operate with common open and industry standard products, those listed as DataCore Ready have completed additional verification testing thereby providing customer confidence in joint solution compatibility. The DataCore Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have met the verification criteria set by DataCore through the execution of a functional test plan.

Through the programme, third-party products and solutions can gain exposure to DataCore customers and resellers.The DataCore Ready designation enables partners to generate revenue opportunities, improve customer satisfaction, and also increases mind-share leveraging the DataCore brand. The programme is designed for software vendors, hardware vendors, hosting service providers and cloud technology firms who have demonstrated product and solution compatibility with DataCore products. The DataCore Ready logo helps customers identify partner's products and solutions that are tested and optimised for SANsymphony-V.