VMware Partner Exchange 2010 closes with VMware Solution Providers heralding DataCore Software as the 3rd dimension to their virtualisation practice.
DataCore™ storage virtualisation software deemed strategic to their Server Virtualisation and Desktop Virtualisation business
As the doors closed on last weeks VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, DataCore Software assessed the strategic value that its storage virtualisation software brings to VMware solution providers. Simply put, DataCore fulfills the 3rd dimension required by VMware value- added resellers (VARs), service and hosting providers to complete their virtualisation offerings. “Failing to include storage virtualisation software to address IT storage challenges results in an incomplete, two-dimensional solution,” comments Augie Gonzalez, Director of Product Marketing, DataCore Software. “Virtualisation solutions must concurrently address server, desktop and storage challenges presented by the many variations of hardware that get deployed over the course of multiple years.”
With DataCore storage virtualisation software, VMware customers gain storage hardware flexibility and improved disk space utilization. Importantly, VMware users do not have to spend a lot of time and money ripping out and replacing perfectly good disks to set up a shared storage infrastructure. DataCore Software enables solution providers to easily repurpose their customers’ existing hardware into a highly-available storage network that supports VMware features like VMotion and remote site disaster recovery (DR) – perfectly complementing their virtual servers and desktops with virtualised storage.
Testimonials from VMware VARs
The following testimonials reveal just how important DataCore is to meeting customer needs in virtual IT infrastructures and cloud initiatives.
“Virtualisation is a 3-dimensional puzzle,” states Pat Sigg, Regional Vice President of Sales at Software Information Systems (SIS), a VMware partner. “What we consistently find when engaging in virtualisation deployments is – first and foremost – the need to virtualise storage resources with the flexibility, high-availability and performance to support numerous virtual servers and desktops without single points of failure. It is this 3rd dimension to virtualisation – the storage virtualisation dimension – that DataCore brings to our virtualisation practice.”
“As a VMware partner specializing in virtualisation solutions, what we have found is that to really get the magic out of VMware, you need DataCore storage virtualisation – be that hardware independence as well as just an astonishing degree of flexibility – that combine to literally pave the way for each of our virtualisation deployments to perform as promised,” comments Chuck Renfro, CEO, ThinkingCap Technologies, LLC. “The bottom-line is that DataCore is vital in enabling our virtualisation customers to meet their business objectives – chief among which is realising high-availability.”
“Virtualisation projects are three-dimensional,” explains Andy Judge, Founder and CEO of Grove Networks, a VMware Enterprise Partner. “Server and desktop virtualisation software address two of those dimensions. DataCore storage virtualisation software is as important, financially and operationally, to a successful virtual infrastructure project as are the server and desktop virtualisation aspects.”
Virtualising Storage in the Cloud: “Priority One”
Any cloud computing platform, just like any virtualisation deployment, needs to have portable software as its building blocks – providing the highest degree of flexibility and openness. DataCore partner Host.net knows intuitively that storage virtualisation software is priority one.
“We chose DataCore in the core design of our virtual private data center (vPDC) platform alongside VMware and Cisco because it delivers the very best storage virtualisation component,” notes Jeffrey Slapp, Vice President of Virtualisation Services for Host.net. “Virtualising the storage is paramount to us for two reasons. First, we required a solution that would allow us to expand storage resources rapidly and non-disruptively to meet increasing demand. Second, we needed a solution that could leverage various hardware storage platforms simultaneously in order to keep pace with technology changes. Accomplishing both allows us to provide high-end enterprise-level services while remaining agile and cost-effective.”
VMware Partner Exchange 2010 ran from February 8 -11 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.
