The fifth coming of SANsymphony.

DataCore Software has shipped SANsymphony 5.0, providing uniform management across the diversity of enterprise storage resources while serving as a base platform lot advanced functionality, substantially faster performance, broad connectivity, and extensible services for mission-critical applications. With this platform, storage consumers gain cost savings and enhanced business productivity through breakthroughs in storage network manageability including automation, robust business recovery options, 4x performance acceleration, simple administrative interfaces, and a broad range of wire-agnostic connectivity.

SANsymphony consolidates storage management for all three tiers of corporate consumers, dramatically improving asset utilization and business productivity from large back-office application servers, LAN-attached workgroup servers, and NAS systems, as well as remote servers, personal computers, and mobile laptops. As a completely open solution, the product controls, allocates, protects, and replicates disk capacity residing on all major storage devices (Compaq, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, and Sun) and offers a wide choice of "IP-based storage" and Fibre Channel connections (IP/LANs, IP/WANs, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and Hybrid IP/FC networks).

An open storage networking platform enables corporations to consolidate space allocation and data protection across the enterprise, independent of the underlying size and shape of hardware This can create tenfold increase in the managed space per person the elimination of storage-related downtime, and affordable and pervasive business continuance.

Network managed volumes move volume management largely out of each client's operating system and consolidates it as a network-wide automated facility. Arbitrarily large virtual disks are assigned to hosts and automatically apportioned physical space in smaller chunks only as needed. The benefits include "just enough and just-in-time" dynamic capacity allocation from network storage pools, disk space requirements collapsed to a minimum, fully utilized capacity without over provisioning and no downtime or administrator intervention to resize or repartition host disks.

Flexible storage domains support the need to align facets o control and accounting along organizational lines by providing departmental visibility and control for metrics important to charge-back and billing, distributing administrative responsibility when appropriate, and centralizing security policy. Storage domains also ensure that quality of service delivered by the storage network is prioritized according to the relative importance of the competing workloads and the class of storage required.

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