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 DataCore Triumphs Alongside VMWare and Microsoft in TPI Technologies Usability TestsDataCore’s Virtualization Storage Solution Gets Top Marks in Ease-of-Use When Integrated With Leading Virtualization ProductsTAMPA BAY -- JUNE 22, 2005 -- TPI Technologies, the premiere consumer-focused storage testing laboratory, today announced that it has completed an exhaustive testing regime matching DataCore Software’s SANmelody 2.0 software with EMC VMWare GSX Server 3.0 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. According to TPI Technologies CEO Jeremy Evans, the integration of DataCore’s SANmelody storage virtualization solution, with the two leading server virtualization products in the market today, has enormous potential to simplify the management and provisioning of IT resources to applications running in small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Evans, who had previously reviewed SANmelody’s support for IP-based storage configurations, tested the solution with eight virtual servers sharing a common storage pool. "Allocating and reallocating computer and storage resources to various application workloads produced excellent results," he noted. "I can readily see how SANmelody technology could be leveraged to simplify administrative and management tasks - a godsend in the multitasking, ‘do more with less’ environments that currently exist in most SME shops." Evans said that deployment of the SANmelody to virtual server platforms required only a few additional steps, when compared with the procedure for deploying the product in non-virtualized operating system environments. "The increasing stability of server virtualization technology, combined with the leading-edge storage pooling capabilities of DataCore’s product, produced a powerful set of management improvements that promise to contribute increased flexibility and more efficient utilization of IT resources to end users," said Evans. "For many SME IT managers, this will be exactly the technology they need, exactly when they need it." Evans views SANmelody’s first-to-market support for virtualized storage across IP networks as a significant advantage for DataCore going forward. “SANmelody can now aggregate any storage LUNs, exposed via any interconnect technology and including iSCSI, into a shared storage pool," he said. "The vendor’s passionate agnosticism with respect to brand of storage hardware adds enormous value by enabling consumers to buy only the storage they need for their applications. Purpose-built storage infrastructure, overlaid with a common virtualization and management software layer, is the only way to drive cost out of storage - the most expensive infrastructure component in most IT hardware budgets." Evans says that he cannot see expensive storage interconnects and brand name monolithic storage platforms gaining any sort of real traction among SME consumers. "The combined cost of their full complement of servers does not come close to offsetting the price for a Fibre Channel Fabric," said Evans. "Moreover, very few enterprises have applications that require a FC Fabric SAN." Going forward, he foresees enormous potential for less expensive network-based storage technologies, including NAS and iSCSI, in the SME space. "Server virtualization is just icing on the cake - extending the value proposition and capacity utilization efficiency of the IT and storage investment," he noted. About TPI Technologies About DataCore Software
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