Advocacy Inc. Deploys DataCore Storage Virtualization Software for Increased Capacity, Better Performance and Greater Flexibility.Large, Non-Profit Organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. That Fights on Behalf of the Disabled Sees Numerous Benefits after Deploying DataCore in Conjunction with VMware AUSTIN, Texas & FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla. -- DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization Treating storage as a single logical entity without regard to the hierarchy of physical media that may be involved or that may change. It enables the applications to read from and write to a single pool of storage rather then individual disks, tapes and optical devices. , business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced that its SANmelody[TM] storage virtualization software has been deployed by Advocacy Inc. The network administrator at Advocacy Inc. was confronted with disk space issues after allowing employees to scan relevant documents onto shared drives. The organization was compelled to find a better solution to enable users to use the system without interruption. The objective was to find a solution to the organization's capacity issue that would enable the business - and its data - to grow. Federally-funded, there is an "Advocacy" in every single state. The organization is mandated by the federal government to provide legal services legal services n. the work performed by a lawyer for a client. to people with disabilities. Meeting Objectives: Storage Virtualization Delivers Business Benefits Austin-based Advocacy Inc. has thirteen offices throughout Texas and employs about 115 people. Five regional offices support 10-18 employees, while other offices are 1-4 person offices. The remote sites of Advocacy Inc. are connected through VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. back to the main office in Austin where all the servers and networking equipment are located. In terms of data storage, prior to DataCore[TM], Network Administrator Carlton Whitmore was trying to cope with shared drives on a Windows server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. , the drives contained personal information and documents that were shared with work colleagues in a given region. "When we opened up the drives for users to scan and save documents, what we found was that certain departments - particularly Legal - began overwhelming the system - from a capacity perspective - with PDF files as well as videos," explained Whitmore. Advocacy Inc. is now running DataCore's SANmelody using iSCSI on a Dell server, effectively transforming that server into a dedicated storage area network (SAN) courtesy of DataCore. SANmelody runs on Windows on a Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. 2950. In terms of the data pool, Whitmore has split the storage in half - so that half is dedicated to the aforementioned shared storage drives, while the other half is serving as a SAN for VMware virtual machines that Whitmore has also deployed. The network administrator has also set up a virtual LAN Also called a "VLAN," it is a logical subgroup within a local area network that is created via software rather than manually moving cables in the wiring closet. It combines user stations and network devices into a single unit regardless of the physical LAN segment they are attached to and (VLAN See virtual LAN. VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network ) because he did not want to run the traffic to the SAN through the same sub-net. From a capacity perspective, Advocacy Inc. now has the storage they need at their disposal as opposed to the limited hard drives they had previously. As far as maintenance goes, Whitmore notes, "There really is no maintenance to speak of. The thing just runs on its own and I have never had any problems with it. If we have to reboot To reload the operating system, which restarts the computer. See boot. (operating system) reboot - (From boot) A boot with the implication that the computer has not been down for long, or that the boot is a bounce intended to clear some state of wedgitude. See warm boot. one of the servers that is attached to the SAN, it automatically re-attaches back to the SAN." Supporting VMware VMs Just three months ago, Advocacy Inc. started consolidating many of its servers by way of using VMware. SANmelody now serves as a SAN for the VMs at Advocacy Inc. as well - serving as a storage location for the virtual machines so that these VMs do not have to use local storage on the Dell machine on which they reside. The Verdict: Performance, Flexibility and Simplicity - Powered by DataCore In terms of supporting both physical and virtual machines, the IT staff at Advocacy Inc. has been amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. at the performance the SANmelody SAN provides. "It is incredibly fast," stated Whitmore. "You would think that by going through a switch with an Ethernet line that it would be a lot slower than having local storage - but it isn't. The reality is quite the contrary." Moreover, Whitmore and team no longer have to worry about backing up existing servers, adding bigger hard drives and then restoring the data back to those new drives. Now, the network and system administrators can allocate additional storage space from the existing SAN. These administrators also tout the benefits of having all of the storage they need in one place - versus buying, for example, five separate hard drives for a server. For Advocacy Inc., the virtual storage approach is a far simpler one. Now when the organization buys additional hardware, it just buys one or two servers for the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. and attach that to the SAN, thereby saving on hardware costs. "If it wasn't for DataCore, there is no way that we would have been able to deploy a SAN," Whitmore continued. "We could not afford a SAN from Dell or HP - or any of the traditional, hardware-based SAN vendors." Free 30-day trial - Try DataCore Today! For a free 30-day test drive, please visit: http://www.datacore.com/trialsoftware. About Advocacy Inc. Advocacy, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation nonprofit corporation n. an organization incorporated under state laws and approved by both the state's Secretary of State and its taxing authority as operating for educational, charitable, social, religious, civic or humanitarian purposes. funded by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Congress to protect and advocate for the legal rights of people with disabilities in Texas. It is not a part of state or local government. It has offices throughout the State of Texas, and a Board of Directors appointed mainly by disability organizations. The Board of Directors selects annual priorities which are the issues the organization will focus on that year. For more information on Advocacy, Inc. priorities and programs, go to http://www.advocacyinc.org. About DataCore Software DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. DataCore lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and virtual. DataCore's portable storage server software simplifies and automates capacity expansion and centralizes storage management for Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux, MacOS, NetWare, VMware and other leading open system and virtual server platforms. DataCore is privately held and its corporate headquarters are in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit http://www.datacore.com. DataCore, the DataCore logo, and SANmelody are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation DataCore Software is a privately held, computer software corporation founded in 1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. DataCore manufactures storage virtualization software, focusing in Storage Area Networks (SAN), Continuous Data Protection (CDP), and Software Acceleration and . 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. |
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