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DataCore Unleashes Significant Performance Enhancements for Software-Defined Storage and Enterprise Class Hyper-converged SolutionsFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- DataCore today announced significant performance enhancements to two of its product lines: DataCore™ SANsymphony™ Software-Defined Storage (SDS) platform and DataCore™ Hyper-converged Virtual SAN. In addition to incorporating the latest advances in DataCore's record-breaking Parallel I/O technology, the new upgrades include deeper hypervisor integration; certified VVOLs support; richer performance monitoring, charting and capacity planning tools; more granular Quality of Service (QoS) and access controls; and lower cost bulk storage options. "EMA has previously awarded DataCore with top honors as Best Enterprise Solution for Software-Defined Storage and our research has shown that their most recent Parallel I/O optimizations significantly lower server and storage costs," said Jim Miller, senior analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). "They are raising the bar once again with this latest software release." DataCore™ Parallel I/O technology and application-adaptive software solutions exploit the full potential of servers and storage to solve data infrastructure challenges and elevate IT to focus on the applications and services that power business. DataCore's solutions revolutionize the performance, cost-savings, and productivity gains that businesses can achieve from their servers and data storage – delivering greater value, industry-best performance, availability and simplicity. Powerful enhancements in the new software release (Version 10 PSP5) include: Faster Performance and Next-Gen Connectivity Meet Enterprise Workload Demands Foremost among the new capabilities are technology optimizations for DataCore™ Parallel I/O, yielding up to 50% faster performance, compared to previous releases, when running SANsymphony™ and DataCore™ Hyper-converged Virtual SAN products on multi-core x86 servers. Objective measurement of Parallel I/O's performance benefits for enterprise-class OLTP and database workloads is illustrated in DataCore's previously published SPC-1 benchmark results[1]. In head-to-head comparisons with long-established storage manufacturers, DataCore achieved audited results that included record-setting numbers for the fastest response time at 100% load: 0.320 Milliseconds; best price performance: $0.08 per SPC-1 IOPS™; and highest IOPS per rack unit: 459,290.87 SPC-1 IOPS™ in a 2U enclosure (approximately 3.5 inches or 89 millimeters) -- a small fraction of a standard 42U rack. All of these numbers rank three to ten times better than popular storage products from leading manufacturers, including all-flash arrays and many multimillion-dollar systems. The PSP5 release further elevates DataCore's revolutionary Parallel I/O performance advantage. The maximum high-speed cache in PSP5 rises from 1TB to 8TBs per node. Bigger RAM caches accelerate applications such as larger databases, where the amount of data being actively referenced typically exceeds 1TB. Speeding up I/O response by sericing more I/O requests from memory (RAM) masks the latency of slower back-end devices such as SSDs and spinning disks, so transactions and analysis complete quicker. Both reads and writes benefit from larger caches. Additionally, DataCore adds support for higher speed, next-gen, Qlogic 32 Gbps fibre channel host bus adapters (HBAs), allowing more concurrent requests to be serviced over the same physical channel, and I/Os to travel quicker over the faster connections. The new HBAs are backwards compatible with 16 Gbps, 8 Gbps, 4 Gbps and 1 Gbps HBAs to smooth the upgrade from prior generations of the network fabric. Hyper-converged for the Enterprise Deeper Microsoft and VMware Hypervisor Integration and Universal VVOLs support PSP5 includes enhanced support for VVOLs VM-centric storage policy-based management (SPBM) using multi-tiered storage pools. The new virtual disk templates can be tailored to establish different classes of service (storage profiles) that the vSphere administrators can choose from when creating virtual machines (VMs) or adding disks to those VMs. Richer Performance-Monitoring, Charting and Capacity-Planning Tools More Granular Quality of Service (QoS) and Access Controls Lower Cost SANsymphony™ Bulk Storage Options "Our proven solutions have already been validated by thousands of customers worldwide for their record-breaking price performance, fastest response times, enterprise-class high availability, and lowest total cost of ownership, among other notable benefits," said Robert Bassett, vice president of engineering DataCore. "The new features in the latest software release open the door to even more demanding use cases such as larger scale virtualization clusters, database storage, ERP applications, financial on-line transactional systems and enterprise clouds. Our customers are eager to deploy the latest software in converged, hyper-converged and SAN environments as well as in private and hybrid clouds to solve their most pressing storage challenges." The enhancements will be generally available in June, 2016. Current DataCore customers may upgrade their software to the new release (Version 10 PSP5) at no-charge under their existing software update service and support contracts.* About DataCore Storage Performance Council, SPC-1, SPC-1 IOPS, SPC-1 Price-Performance and SPC-1 Result are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Storage Performance Council. DataCore, the DataCore logo and SANsymphony are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT * Some new features are separately-priced options. [1] SPC Benchmark 1 Full Disclosure Report DataCore Software Corporation DataCore SANsymphony-V 10.0 Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160329/348779LOGO To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/datacore-unleashes-significant-performance-enhancements-for-software-defined-storage-and-enterprise-class-hyper-converged-solutions-300274492.html SOURCE DataCore |