DataCore Rental Program

DataCore Software introduced a program for 2012 offering qualified cloud service providers (CSPs) rental access to its SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor.

The program fulfills the demand to host advanced storage virtualization services on a subscription basis and complements programs provided by server and application virtualization independent software vendors such as VMware, Microsoft and Citrix.

According to analysts at Gartner, worldwide cloud services revenue growth is projected to reach $148.8 billion by 2014.

DataCore’s program enables CSPs to offer storage hypervisor services without incurring up-front capital expenses to license the software. Instead, these CSPs can rent SANsymphony-V on a monthly basis for predictable operational costs matched to their service offering. Additionally, CSPs gain the ability to easily add storage capacity and quickly scale to accommodate new clients.

DataCore’s SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor provides an architecture that manages, optimizes and spans all the different price-points and performance levels of electronic and mechanical storage, including SSDs, HDDs and inexpensive cloud storage resources.

Cloud providers count on the technology
to address several aspects of their environment, including:

• Reducing short and long-term storage infrastructure costs;
• Expediting and simplifying provisioning;
• Tiering service levels to match workloads and price objectives;
• Scaling disk capacity and I/O performance according to SLAs;
• Maintaining unquestioned dependability and data protection;
• Extending non-stop access to their clients; and
• Rolling out business continuity and disaster recovery services.

"Current and prospective cloud service providers are constantly in the hunt for a technological and pricing edge," said Dan Hascall, vice president of Americas sales for DataCore Software. "We’re giving them both in a form that they can immediately leverage without any CAPEX impediments or hardware lock-in. They’ll also gain negotiating clout when shopping for their next round of storage equipment, thanks to the hardware interchangeability that SANsymphony-V brings. Equally important, we allow CSPs to maintain predictable service levels, despite the unpredictable state of their hardware environment and the fluctuating demands that daily reshape their clouds."

The DataCore CSP Program
offers a monthly rental rate starting with:

• A pair of full-featured SANsymphony-V node licenses;
• 12-month, fixed rate, auto-renewing contract;
• Non-production use licenses for in-house testing;
• Access to technical support 24 x 7, 365 days a year; and
• Access to the latest SANsymphony-V software updates.

CSPs gain access
to a set of SANsymphony-V features including:

• virtual disk pooling
• automated storage tiering
• adaptive, high-speed caching
• thin provisioning
• synchronous mirroring
• pass-through disks
• snapshots
• CDP
• asynchronous replication
• advanced site recovery

Availability
The DataCore CSP Program is available as of January 1, 2012 through distribution partners.