SANsymphony software is an enterprise-class open storage networking platform that maximizes the value from IT assets and boosts business productivity. Customers receive enduring ROI benefits from the comprehensive storage management services provided by the software.

Now there is a way to maximize your return on investment, minimize lost opportunity costs and lower total cost of ownership.

DataCore and our world-renowned business partners offer comprehensive storage solutions that immediately improve how your company deploys, protects, expands and manages storage - while also improving the bottom line.

More and more IT organizations are putting a stop to wasteful storage practices with the help of SANsymphony software. This time-tested, open storage networking platform from DataCore dramatically improves the productivity of storage, servers and the people who manage them. With SANsymphony software, customers achieve:

• Dramatically better disk utilization through storage resource pooling, auto provisioning (Virtual Capacity) and tiered storage classes.
• Reduced operational burden by centralizing and automating storage administration across like or dissimilar equipment.
• Slash planned and unplanned downtime using non-disruptive storage provisioning and replication techniques.
• Enhanced performance, connectivity and productivity allowing them to support more users with existing resources and personnel.

All these benefits translate into lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and greater return on investment (ROI), as well as a more versatile and responsive IT infrastructure

 

Overview of Operational Benefits

SANsymphony software consolidates and automates key aspects of storage management, enabling every business, from large enterprises to smaller companies, to:

• Effectively use all disk capacity at their disposal.
• Auto Provision disk space just-in-time.
• Collapse physical space requirements to their minimum.
• Pool disk capacity from multiple storage devices and multiple suppliers.
• Slash storage-related outages, planned and unplanned.
• Add, move and upgrade disks without rebooting storage consumers (hosts).
• Ensure non-stop data access despite hardware, software and procedural failures.
• Overcome physical limitations and vendor-specific nuances of storage devices.
• Accelerate I/O performance from existing disk arrays.
• Match quality of service (QoS) levels to a workload's importance and departmental objectives.
• Centrally manage storage on behalf of mission-critical servers and desktop users.
• Distribute administrative responsibility and privileges for individual storage domains, while retaining global centralized control.
• Incorporate affordable business continuance and disaster recovery practices on campus, regional and global levels
• Rapidly restore applications by reassigning known working image to alternative server.
• Leverage existing storage investments while facilitating technology insertion dictated by new business requirements.