DataCore Showcases Customer Wins Built on Industry-Leading Brocade Storage Networking Infrastructure.Business/Technology Editors FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2002 DataCore Leverages Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program to Complement Multi-Vendor SAN Environments DataCore Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class, open storage networking software  This article is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article in an . , today reviewed some of its customer successes as a member of the Brocade Fabric Threads Developer Program. Numerous storage networking customers worldwide have deployed SANsymphony(TM) software over SAN infrastructures built on Brocade Silkworm silkworm, name for the larva of various species of moths, indigenous to Asia and Africa but now domesticated and raised for silk production throughout most of the temperate zone. The culture of silkworms is called sericulture. (R) intelligent fabric switches to increase disk utilization, and centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. and automate storage administration. Together, the products help eliminate downtime using non-disruptive storage provisioning and replication techniques, while enhancing performance, connectivity and productivity. This allows organizations to support more users, applications and storage with existing resources and personnel. Representative installations include 7 Global, Alcatel, Belgacom, DBCC DBCC Daytona Beach Community College (Florida) DBCC District Business Conduct Committee (NASD) DBCC Desert Breeze Community Church (Glendale, AZ, USA) , Canada's Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. , DeTeline, FAZ - Allgemeiner Zeitung, Fujitsu Telecommunications and TF1. "The combination of SANsymphony software and Brocade's fabric switches has greatly increased our productivity and simplified our storage management challenges for our growing list of heterogeneous servers," said Graham Crich, senior vice president with 7 Global, a UK-based storage services provider. "DataCore and Brocade matched 7 Global's selection criteria by providing a solution with the ability to mirror data across sites, improve application I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output throughput performance and implement centralized storage management." "As companies deploy and grow their SANs at a rapid rate, helping vendors like DataCore leverage the intelligence in Brocade SAN infrastructure to create products and applications that interoperate in Brocade-based heterogeneous storage networks is crucial," said Jay Kidd, vice president of product marketing at Brocade. "Our Fabric Threads Developer Program and our relationship with DataCore are excellent examples of our continued commitment to delivering end-to-end solutions to our SAN customers." "Interoperability and reliability are what we looked for in our storage environments. As storage networks grow across the enterprise, our ability to easily manage vital storage resources across these multi-vendor configurations becomes even more vital," said Mike Burke, director of IS and networking at DBCC located in Daytona Beach, Florida “Daytona” redirects here. For other uses, see Daytona (disambiguation). Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, USA. According to 2006 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, the city has a population of 64,421. . "Our DataCore and Brocade solution delivered ease of management, reliability, and end-to-end interoperability." SANsymphony is a unique software product that lets you organize a mix and match of popular storage devices into a network storage pool. Open systems application servers running Windows, Unix, NetWare and Linux are allocated virtual volumes from the pool on demand. SANsymphony frees disks from being confined to individual hosts, while leveraging Fibre-Channel's enhanced distance, connectivity and performance. The result is a versatile and scalable relationship between application servers and networked storage resources. "Traditional direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. cannot offer the flexibility, scalability and availability to support today's explosive data growth in a cost-effective manner," said Ken Horner, vice president of marketing with DataCore Software. "DataCore is excited about our customer successes and our continuing work with Brocade to satisfy these customer's storage networking needs around the globe." About 7 7 provides a range of Technology Outsourcing and System Integration Services. The services empower its clients to remain focused on their core competencies rather than the chore of managing increasingly complex IT systems. Services combine the latest software and hardware, finest IT talent, systems integration skills, networking capabilities and are delivered on or off site. Please visit www.7GLOBAL.com for more detailed information. About Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). , Inc. Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) provides the world's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. For more information, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com or contact the company at info@brocade.com. About DataCore Software DataCore Software Corporation's award-winning software automates and consolidates storage management for enterprise customers worldwide, significantly reducing their costs and increasing the return on investment from information technology assets. The company's SANsymphony software sets the standard for open storage networking platforms, supporting all major brands of disk arrays and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . It is available and supported through major OEMs, system integrators and resellers. DataCore is privately held with corporate headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For international office locations and more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com. DataCare, DataCore, the DataCore Logo, Powered by DataCore, Networked-Powered Storage, NPS NPS National Park Service NPS Naval Postgraduate School NPS Net Promoter Score (customer management) NPS Non-Point Source pollution NPS Native Plant Society NPS Norfolk Public Schools (Virginia) , ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). Street Smarts street smarts Vox populi Worldly wisdom and wariness in human interactions. Cf Social smarts. , SANsymphony, SANcentral, SANcollege and SANvantage 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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