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Do More. Save More.

Non-Stop, Lightning-Fast,Waste-Free SANs

Do More. Save More.

Non-Stop, Lightning-Fast,Waste-Free SANs

April 2009April 2009

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NON-STOP, LIGHTNING-FAST, WASTE-FREE SANS


Virtualization is Strategic

Virtualization ranks as the No. 1 strategic technology for this year,

not for its ability to virtualize servers, but for its increasing capability to virtualize just about everything else in a data center...

in storage, for instance, virtualization allows users to "to combine different kinds and generations of storage technology.“

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DataCore Solutions4


DataCore = Savings and Productivity

Consolidate & Optimize Your Storage by 60% Get full use of what you own, purchase storage on ‘as needed basis’ Save on floor space, capacity costs and energy

Lower Initial and On-going Costs by 50% plus and Future Proof Your Storage Investments

Value protection upgradability – pay as neededFuture proofing - enduring Software, lives beyond the hardware

Slash Business Downtime Costs (From Weeks to minutes or zero)

Cost-effective solutions make HA and DR practical More Productivity - ‘True High-Availability” Business Protection

Enhance Performance (2-4X) & Improve Admin Productivity (3-10X)

Automation, SAN-wide Centralized Management, Thin ProvisioningDo more in the same timeframe – Accelerate Performance 2-4X!

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Storage Virtualization & the Economy

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"It's a lot easier for customers to put off the purchases of servers, some software and applications, and even desktops than it is to put off storage purchases. Once a company moves into the digital world ... information just piles up. You've got to have some place to put it."

“Software - do more with less”

“Storage Virtualization let’s you get the most from your existing investments.”

“ DataCore Software...I see their storage virtualization software today offering even greater value in the context of the recessionary economy.” - Jon Toigo, Storage Industry Analyst

http://www.pund-it.com/


Savings & ROI from DataCore Virtual SANs

vs Traditional Direct Attached Storage (DAS) Better Storage Capacity Utilization: Thin Provisioning/Reclamation, etc.

• DAS = 25%-40% (i.e., 60% to 75% of storage assets are wasted)• SAN = 85%-90% DataCore = Maximum Utilization!

Faster Performance & Lower Admin & Environmental Costs: Accelerate performance 2-4X: Get more work done faster!

Simplify Management: Universal Commands, Automation, etc.• Ratio of DAS to SAN costs = 3 to 10X Better Productivity • Pooling of cost-effective storage = Choice of Savings

Do More with Less in the same given time.Avg. Admin Burdened Cost = $75,000+

More Uptime – SANs dramatically increase availablity: Auto Failover/Failback, Disk Backups, CDP, etc,

• Average revenue lost per employee-hour is $275.00 • 100 employee impact = $27,500 per hour• DAS = 98.0% uptime (60 hours/yr downtime)• SAN = 99.9%+ uptime (1hour/yr downtime or less)


Virtualization & SAN

Storage growth never stops…

High-Availability SAN are critical to protect against “all the eggs in one basket” impact of virtual server consolidation…

Virtualization magnifies I/O load…

High Cost of traditional SAN limit and delay Virtual Server deployments…

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Business Continuity DataCore does high-availability better… Sweet Spot – ‘High-Availability SAN for SMB’

“DataCore does high-availability better… making business continuity and disaster recovery

solutions practical"

• Simple Fail-safe SAN data protection • Unique Automatic Failover and Failback• Priced right for Small and Mid-size Business

• Full-featured HA SAN software from $10,000• No-penalty upgradability and “future proofed” growth path

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Before Server Virtualization: Physical Isolation

~30 Users

~35 Users

~20 Users

~30 Users

~15 Users

Few people depend on each physical resource

Hardware changes more confined


5X MoreUsers

After: Concentrated Workloads

Physical Server

Virtual

Machines


5X MoreWorkload

Result: Pronounced Dependency on Storage

Magnifies impact of: I/O Bottlenecks Interruptions

Physical Server

Virtual

Machines

Shared Resources


Overcome I/O bottlenecks & Business Disruptions

DataCore accelerates Storage I/O… • Cost Effective & Fast Caching and Load Balancing

DataCore does high-availability better…• Simple Fail-safe SAN data protection • Insulate Failures Transparent to Applications• Unique Automatic Failover and Failback• Priced right for Small and Mid-size Business

• Full-featured HA SAN software from <$10,000• No-penalty upgradability and “future proofed” growth path

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Known-good copy

High-Availability & Disaster Recovery

VirtualServer Pool

VirtualSAN

Main Computer Site

DisasterRecovery

Site

VirtualDisk Pool

InternetAuto

Failover

AutoReplicateRemotely


DataCore: Value, Cost Savings and R.O.I.

Waste-FreeDouble disk utilization 40% 80%+

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ConsolidationStorage Pooling

Thin Provisioning

Slash Downtime

attributed to storage

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Auto Failover/FailbackBusiness ContinuanceDisk-to-Disk Backups

Disaster Recovery

2X PerformancePerform twice the work in the same given time

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UnmatchedPrice

Performance

10X Moremanaged capacityper administrator

CentralizedManagement

& Automation

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Case In Point

Customer Challenge:$200,000 budgeted for virtual infrastructure. Surprised to learn that SAN alone cost over $190K

Solution: Business Continuity within budget using DataCore

300 Users SQL Server, Exchange 40 App Servers Windows VMs 10TB

Police Station

Co-location

10 Miles


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DataCore = Savings and Productivity

Consolidate & Optimize Your Storage by 60% Get full use of what you own, purchase storage on ‘as needed basis’ Save on floor space, capacity costs and energy

Lower Initial and On-going Costs by 50% plus and Future Proof Your Storage Investments

Value protection upgradability – pay as neededFuture proofing - enduring Software, lives beyond the hardware

Slash Business Downtime Costs (From Weeks to minutes or zero)

Cost-effective solutions make HA and DR practical More Productivity - ‘True High-Availability” Business Protection

Enhance Performance (2-4X) & Improve Admin Productivity (3-10X)

Automation, SAN-wide Centralized Management, Thin ProvisioningDo more in the same timeframe – Accelerate Performance 2-4X!

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Get the Most From Your Storage

Fullest Utilization

Highest Availability

Yet, More Economical to Acquire, Manage, Protect & Maintain


Thank You …

www.datacore.com

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