DataCore Announces Pay-as-You-Serve Cloud Service Provider Program

DataCore Software Corporation
announced that providers of hosted IT services may now rent DataCore’s
SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor through the company’s Cloud Service Provider
Program.

Under the program, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) pay for the use of the
software monthly based on the amount of storage they serve versus having to
purchase it outright. This allows participating providers to reduce capital
expenditure and better align costs to revenue.

DataCore’s storage hypervisor software manages and protects hosted IT
environments, providing a performance, scalable, tiered storage
infrastructure upon which providers can build and offer their
hosted IT services.

‘Pay-as-You-Serve’ business model aligns storage costs with revenue generating services.

The Cloud Service Provider Program goes a step further in
the direction of ‘on demand’ infrastructure with its ‘Pay-as-You-Serve’
proposition to hosted IT service providers – they pay for the software as they
use it, based upon the storage they serve to their subscribers.

"In order to offer the most
competitive pricing for their services, CSPs and other hosting companies seek
to lower capital expenditures and keep expenses and their timing aligned to
revenue-producing activities," said Carlos M. Carreras, VP of
alliances and business development, DataCore Software. "The DataCore storage hypervisor ‘software
advantage’ gives us the unique ability to offer the kind of service provider
program that other leading software companies, like VMware, have developed, but
apply it to the storage-side of the infrastructure. Ideally tailored for the flexibility,
efficiency and predictable expenses they seek."

Storage Hypervisor: 
‘Buying Power’,
Productivity and Operating Expense Savings

New
technologies will also be of interest to CSPs. These innovations
designed to satisfy large scale, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
requirements to building cloud storage infrastructures are
packaged in the company’s product, SANsymphony-V R9.0, described
as ‘The Storage Hypervisor for the Cloud.’

The storage hypervisor’s storage management capabilities and
interchangeable hardware design empowers hosters with cost-savings
flexibility, new levels of automation for increased resource productivity and a
storage infrastructure that incorporates the latest innovations.

"The new DataCore CSP pricing model
reduces our upfront costs – thereby enhancing our margins," comments
Philippe Merckel, CEO, Merckel SAS. "DataCore
understands that as data centers move to the cloud in the form of virtual,
private data centers, cloud platforms need the storage virtualization
functionality that DataCore brings to the table with its storage hypervisor.
The key, however, for CSPs lies in making the adoption of this technology
cost-effective. That is what this Cloud Service Provider Program does. It makes
it far easier for us to standardize on DataCore for storage virtualization
because we pay as we go rather than paying for everything upfront. It
fundamentally suits our own business model whereby our own clients lease our
cloud platform."