DataCore Software

DataCore Software Corporation
Private
Industry Computer Software
Founded 1998
Headquarters Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Key people
 Ziya Aral, Chairman
George Teixeira, CEO
Products SANsymphony-V Software Defined Storage Platform
Number of employees
 200+ (2013)
Website datacore.com

DataCore Software is a Florida based Parallel Processing and software defined storage vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking.[1][2]

Company

The company began as DataCore Software on February 4, 1998 and worked on building a storage virtualization software to manage and control storage resources and insulate users and applications from storage-related disruptions.[3][4] The original team of 12 employees had a background in the industry and had designed parallel processing and high-end storage subsystems at Encore Computer. The company also describes itself as a leader in software defined storage architectures based on its solutions being hardware independent and managing and auto-tuning the performance[5] and utilization of all forms of storage including flash memory technologies, spinning disk drives and Cloud storage.[6][7] The original team worked without pay throughout 1998 before receiving nearly 8 million dollars from angel investors and venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates and Flagship Ventures in January, 1999[8] A $30 million round in 2001 was led by Vista Equity Partners.[9] Initial funding helped them in building their product and establishing their roots in the growing industry.[10][11]

Funding

DataCore received their first round of $30 million round in 2001, led by Vista Equity Partners.[12] From inception until 2008, it has received a total of $85 million in venture capital. In addition to the $85 million raised prior to 2008, DataCore received an additional round of $30 million of venture capital investment on May, 2008 from Insight Ventures and Updata Partners; bringing their total raised capital to $115 million.[13]

SANsymphony

SANsymphony was released in the year 2000 as an open storage management software platform for larger enterprise systems. SANsymphony manages higher level constructs such as groupings, storage pools, regions, domains, and attributes such as high availability, channel paths in a storage area network (SAN).[14] SANsymphony (Release 1.0 through 7.0 which supported up to 8 nodes was released in 2010 as well as a subset version SANmelody which was limited to 2 node configurations) can thin provision storage capacity, create storage domains, control quality of service, migrate data, accelerate storage performance (read and write caching), and create high-speed snapshots for fast disk-to-disk backup and recovery. SANsymphony supports both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity and other features.[15][16]

SANsymphony-V

After more than two years in development, DataCore revamped and released SANsymphony-V on January 31, 2011. SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software enables datacenters to use existing equipment and conventional storage devices to achieve the robust and responsive shared storage environment necessary to support highly dynamic virtual IT environments. SANsymphony-V supported desktop virtualization, cloud computing, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives. It forms a virtualization layer across disk storage devices to maximize the availability, performance and utilization of data centers of all sizes.[17] The centrally-managed data protection, provisioning, caching, replication and migration functions operates over different models and brands.[18] DataCore announced SANsymhony-V 9.0 on July 2, 2012.[19] DataCore announced a Software Defined Storage update release to SANsymphony-V on Nov 4, 2013 which supports up to 16 nodes and new features including self-healing storage. DataCore announced hyper-converged setup with Huawei .[20]

Hyper-converged Virtual SAN

In 2014, Datacore launched Hyper-converged Virtual SAN, an integrated software platform to virtualize all aspects of a data center by adding additional modules to compute and store on a single x86 server chassis.[21] It leverages improvements through a software-defined data center at the storage controller software layer to allow these systems to scale out.[22]

Parallel I/O

DataCore Parallel I/O was launched in 2015, that enables the performance of multiple input and output operations at the same time.[23][24] It is a type of distributed file system that distributes file data across multiple servers and provides for concurrent access by multiple tasks of a parallel application across multiple CPU cores.[25] DataCore running Parallel I/O software on their SANsymphony system recorded $0.08/IOPS on a system which was one sixth cost of its competitors with the average response time of 0.32ms.[26] The Adaptive Parallel I/O technology is included with DataCore SANsymphony-V virtualization software.[27][28] The product received Gold award in the 2015 Product of the Year Awards held by Storage Magazine.[29]

Partners

DataCore also includes incorporation or integrations with partner technologies to provide enterprise-class storage features.[30]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Nathan Eddy (6 November 2014). "DataCore Ready Software-Defined Storage Servers Debut". Eweek. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Chris Mellor (27 October 2015). "DataCore pushing parallel IO, and puts the cores to work". The Register. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  3. ↑ John Webster (9 December 2015). "The Rebirth of Parallel I/O". Forbes. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Storage start-ups gathering steam.(storage-area network products under development)(Technology Information)". Highbeam. 1 February 1999. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "DataCore Offers SAN Justification Tool". Highbeam. 15 January 2001. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Ziya Aral, Chairman on DataCore Software's take on software-defined storage". 2013-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Growth in Software-Defined Storage Drives DataCore Expansion in Australia". CSO. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  8. ↑ "Venture Capitalists in Florida Ripe for Lending Money, Advice.". Highbeam. 25 April 1999. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  9. ↑ Dawn Kawamoto (November 2, 2001). "DataCore raises more than $30 million". CNet news. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  10. ↑ "DataCore Lands $30 Million From V.C.’s". The New York Times. 2008-04-29.
  11. ↑ "Storage Virtualization Company DataCore Gets $30 Million". 2008-06-04.
  12. ↑ "DataCore gets new funding.". Highbeam. 26 January 2004. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "DataCore Gets $30m in Funding.". Highbeam. 5 May 2008. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  14. ↑ "Gadzoox launches storage pooling devices; Company's Axxess hardware/software package lets users mix and match servers, storage devices". Highbeam. 12 June 2000. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  15. ↑ "Frequently Asked Questions about DataCore SANmelody, SANsymphony & SANsymphony-V". clarityitadvisors.com.
  16. ↑ "Fujitsu Expands OEM Deal with DataCore.". Highbeam. 6 August 2001. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  17. ↑ Dan Kusnetzky (29 April 2014). "Software-defined storage, DataCore style". Zdnet. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  18. ↑ Steve Wexler (2011-02-01). "DataCore Tackles Storage Virtualization Barrier".
  19. ↑ Bruce Hoard (2012-06-29). "DataCore Channels its Inner VMware with SANsymphony-V 9.0".
  20. ↑ Chris Mellor (2015-03-16). "Huawei and DataCore spawn a beautiful hyper-converged system".
  21. ↑ "Enterprise Strategy Group’s New Lab Report Validates DataCore Software-Defined Storage, Hyper-converged, Virtualization and Parallel I/O Performance Advances". Virtual-Strategy Magazine. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  22. ↑ "Parallel I/O et le Top 10 des plus grands défis de stockage".
  23. ↑ "DataCore pushing parallel IO, and puts the cores to work". The Register.
  24. ↑ "Huawei, DataCore fire torpedoes into SPC-1 storage box benchmarks". The Register.
  25. ↑ Jon Toigo. echtarget http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/The-significance-of-parallel-I-O-in-data-storage. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑ John Webster (9 December 2015). "The Rebirth of Parallel I/O". Forbes.
  27. ↑ "Parallel I/O technology boosts data storage performance". Techtarget.
  28. ↑ "Cloud Expo Europe Frankfurt 2015 - Cloud Expo Europe-Highlight: Mehr Performance und Kostensenkung mit DataCore Parallel I/O-Software".
  29. ↑ Carol Sliwa. "DataCore SANsymphony-V Adaptive Parallel I/O software". Techtarget.
  30. ↑ "Technology Partners".
  31. ↑ Chris Preimesberger (20 March 2015). "Huawei, DataCore Join Forces for Hyper-Converged System". Eweek. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  32. ↑ Carol Sliwa (25 August 2015). "DataCore Software partners with Curvature to recycle storage". Techtarget. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  33. ↑ "DataCore Software Achieves Cisco Compatibility Certification with the Cisco Solution Partner Program". Highbeam. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  34. ↑ "EMA Evaluates DataCore as the Best Enterprise Solution and Category Value Leader for Software-Defined Storage". Reuters. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  35. ↑ "Winners 2015". Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  36. ↑ "DataCore Software Wins 2010 Storage Award for "Virtualization Product of the Year".". Highbeam. 8 July 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  37. ↑ "DataCore Software is named Runner-Up for 2015 Storage Award for "Virtualization Project of the Year".". SVCAwards. 3 December 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  38. ↑ "Bradford Grammar School graduates to DataCore for software-defined storage.". ComputerWeekly. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.

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