10 REASONS TO ADOPT DATACORE SOFTWARE Over 10,000 satisfied clients and more than 30,000 installations worldwide, clients in every industry sector and of every size, testify to DataCore’s innovative spirit. It’s no wonder that we know precisely what it takes to deal with the challenges our clients face. We are there to assist you with a range of solutions aimed at dealing with increasing volumes of data and complex management of a disparate variety of infrastructures. This is why we are in the top ranking in the market of software-defined storage and hyper- converged infrastructure. Whether to boost the performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency, structure for enhanced availability, ensure high availability or business continuity - with DataCore you are always in control.

1. The Data Infrastructure Software Company www.datacore.com
The Infrastructure
for the Next-Generation Datacenter
Executive Briefing
10 REASONS TO ADOPT DATACORE SOFTWARE
Over 10,000 satisfied clients and more than 30,000 installations worldwide, clients in every sector and of every size,
testify to DataCore’s success and innovative spirit. It’s no wonder that we know precisely what it takes to deal with
the challenges our clients face. We are there to assist you with a range of solutions aimed at dealing with increasing
volumes of data and complex management of a disparate variety of infrastructures. This is why we are in the top ranking
in the market of software-defined storage and hyper- converged infrastructure. Whether to boost the performance of
mission-critical applications, increase efficiency, structure for enhanced availability, ensure high availability or business
continuity - with DataCore you are always in control.
No Hardware Vendor Lock-In enables greater
buying power. With DataCore, you gain the
freedom to buy from any hardware vendor which
significantly improves cost effectiveness.
Standardized management that works infra-
structure-wide including joint administration of
classic SAN & hyper-converged infrastructure
which substantially reduces operating costs.
Achieve world-record shattering business
critical application performance with Parallel
I/O technology & DataCore’s self-tuning &
adaptive caching.
Protect your most mission critical data with
our high-speed, metro-wide auto-failover and
auto-failback mirroring which adds a higher
level of protection and requires no human
intervention.
Investment Protection; Stop the „Rip and
Replace“ Cycle. With DataCore software, you
can add features as you need them without
having to replace your storage hardware.
Future-proof your storage with software-defined
flexibility; be ready for whatever comes next. Your
infrastructure is ready to bring in new storage
innovations and put them to work.
Get the most from what you already own befo-
re buying more. DataCore software lets you op-
timize the utilization of your storage resources,
extending the time to hardware refresh.
Unique Infrastructure-wide Auto-Tiering en-
ables optimal performance and cost efficiency.
DataCore provides fully automated, infrastruc-
ture-wide storage tiering that spans 15 tier
levels.
DataCore supports all major Hypervisors, even in
mixed environments. Allow your business to enjoy
the highest degree of flexibility.
Ensure the highest possible levels of availability
with DataCore’s 24x7x365 multi-lingual, around
the globe support. Avoid surprise warranty cost
increases with DataCore’s predictable and stable
support pricing.
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2. SINGLE PLATFORM FOR EVERY TYPE OF STORAGE CONCEPT
With this comprehensive range of state-of-the-art storage services, you will achieve up to ten times more output, up
to a four-fold improvement in capacity utilization, up to 100 percent less storage-related outages and up to 90 percent
less time spent on routine storage-related tasks.
Hyper-converged Cluster Converged Server SAN Virtualized Storage Server
Combine compute and storage
for smallest footprint
Separate storage
and compute in one chassis
Integrate, manage, and enhance
existing storage array(s)
SANsymphony Software-defined Storage Platform
DataCore Hyper-converged
Virtual SAN
NAS/SAN (UNIFIED STORAGE)
Supports fast and highly accessible NAS for file
sharing (NFS/SMB (CIFS))
CENTRALISED ADMINISTRATION
Greater productivity and administrative efficien-
cy; infrastructure-wide control and monitoring of
storage pools via a single console
CLOUD INTEGRATION
Access to cloud storage from a variety of providers;
expands storage pools to include external clouds;
with a gateway that supports automatic tiering to
the cloud
VVOLS
Generically provides the advantages of VMware
VVol for all storage systems, regardless of whether
they explicitly support them or not; this allows
vSphere administrators to make virtual volumes
available without having to recognize the storage
hardware
ANALYSIS & REPORTING
Offers real-time and historical analysis, ‘heat maps’
to identify I/O bottlenecks; Reporting for capacity
planning, tuning and asset tracking
Administation
Only DataCore offers all the relevant storage services in a universally
compatible format
DataCore SANsymphony SDS Platform
VIRTUALIZED HOSTS PHYSICAL SERVERS
EFFICIENCYAVAILABILITY
Synchronous Mirroring
Snapshots / Backups
CDP
Asynchronous Replication
PERFORMANCE
High Speed Caching
Random Write Accelerator
Auto-tiering
Quality of Service (QoS)
Thin Provisioning
Storage Pooling
Data Migration
Deduplication/Compression
NAS/SAN
(Unified Storage)
Centralized
Management
Analysis
& Reporting
Cloud
Integration
MANAGEMENT
VVols
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3. SYNCH MIRRORING
Zero downtime, zero touch high availability by
continuously mirroring active/active copies bet-
ween physically-separate locations accessible to
local/metro clusters as shared disks
ASYNCH REPLICATION
Fast, simple, remote-site disaster recovery and
migration; Maintains distant copies up-to-date
without impacting local performance
CDP
Businesses can roll back to a previous point-
in-time prior to a disaster, virus attack or other
disruptive event without doing an explicit backup
SNAPSHOTS/BACKUPS
Captures point-in-time images quickly across
storage devices; efficiently clone system images,
speed-up recovery and enable off-line analysis
Availability
STORAGE POOLING
Consolidates like or unlike disks - enabling cost
efficient tiering of resources by price-performance
and capacity
THIN PROVISIONING
Improves utilization of the storage environment
and facilitates cost savings by allocating disk spa-
ce according to actual need
DATA MIGRATION
Transparently moves and migrates data; Allows non-
stop business operations during data center reloca-
tions, VM moves, system refreshes
DEDUPLICATION/COMPRESSION
Reduces storage needs in order to save multiple
copies of the same data
Efficiency
HIGH-SPEED CACHING
Accelerates disk I/Os and the performance of
mission-critical applications by increasing use of
available RAM
AUTO TIERING
Based on cost and output, intelligent automated
real time optimization of available capacity across a
variety of storage classes
RANDOM WRITE ACCELERATOR
Significantly increases performance for workloads
characterized by many random writes, such as fre-
quently updated databases, ERP & OLTP systems
QUALITY OF SERVICES (QOS)
Ensures high-priority workloads meet SLAs with
predictable I/O performance by regulating resour-
ces consumed by lower priority requests
Performance

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When to get started with DataCore!
Let us help you solve your most pressing storage-related challenges by putting our Software-defined Storage or
Hyper-converged Virtual SAN platform into action.
Before purchasing Flash or SSDs
When expanding server or
desktop virtualization
When developing your Business
Continuity, High Availability or disaster
recovery plans
Before your next storage purchase When evaluating hyper-converged
Solutions
Significant advantages for businesses of any size!
� Parallel I/O
� Caching
� Auto-Tiering
Improved
Performance
� Zero Downtime
� Zero Touch failover &
failback
Reduced
Downtimes
� Thin Provisioning
� Deduplication/
Compression
� Storage Pools
Improved
Utilisation
� Centralised
Administation
� Hardware-
independent
storage services
Lower
Costs
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