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DataCore Customer Statistic

Realizing a Significant Impact with DataCore

87% of surveyed IT organizations improved performance by 3x or more since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.

87%

Thanks to DataCore, we reduced our storage-related downtime:

100%: 25%

90% or more: 35%

75% or more: 10%

50% or more: 12%

Less than 50%: 17%

Stennis Space Center

Introduction

This case study of ASRC Federal, Stennis Space Center, MS is based on a December 2015 survey of DataCore customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“DataCore SANsymphony not only provided Stennis Data Center the virtualization of our SAN, but also provided the capability to mirror our SAN environment. That alone has protected out critical applications from unplanned outages. The Engineering and Test Directorate at Stennis Space Center is currently testing the new rocket engines for the Space Launch System, and a system outage could have scrubbed a test, costing millions of dollars to reschedule. DataCore has been extremely important in ensuring the Stennis Data Center services are high performing and highly available.”

Use Case

Decreased the amount of time spent on routine storage tasks by 50% or more since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
Completed 20+ non-distruptive/seamless data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes since DataCore was installed.
Has been able to defer 3 storage hardware refresh cycles using DataCore software.

Results

Realized a positive ROI in the first year with DataCore.
Effectively reduced their storage-related spending by 25% or more with DataCore.
Improved performance by 10x since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
Reduced their storage-related downtime by 90% or more since implementing DataCore.
Agrees the transition to DataCore was:
- Well planned and expertly executed
- Accomplished with minimal disruption

Major Cost Saving

DataCore effectively reduced our storage-related spending by:

75% or more	10%
50% or more	37%
25% or more	35%
Less than 25%	19%

Case Study: Medium Enterprise, Industrial Manufacturing Company

Introduction

This case study of Radlberger Getraenke GesmbH & Co is based on a February 2014 survey of DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“It runs without problems .. In German .. das läuft und läuft und läuft ohne das jemand irgend etwas machen muss. Genau soll es sein.”

Challenges

Has been running DataCore without any storage-related planned or unplanned downtime for 2+ years.

Use Case

Decreased the amount of time spent on routine storage tasks by 90% since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
Has been able to defer 1 storage hardware refresh cycles using DataCore software.

Results

Realized a positive ROI in < 6 months with DataCore.
Effectively reduced their storage-related spending by > 50% with DataCore.
Improved performance by 5x since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
Reduced their storage-related downtime by 100% since implementing DataCore.
Cut planned downtime on data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes by 100% with DataCore.
Turned stranded storage capacity into > 50% more free space with DataCore.

SANsymphony™ Customer Review

5/5 Stars

Please describe your experience when calling DataCore Technical Support:

I always have a very good experience when talking to Datacore support – the staff are always very knowledgeable in the working of the product.

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Realizing a Significant Impact with DataCore

Thanks to DataCore, we reduced our storage-related downtime:

Stennis Space Center

Introduction

Use Case

Results

Organization Profile

About DataCore

Major Cost Saving

Case Study: Medium Enterprise, Industrial Manufacturing Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

About DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software

Please describe your experience when calling DataCore Technical Support:

Would you recommend the DataCore Technical Support team, and if so, why?

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About SANsymphony™

SANsymphony™ is DataCore’s flagship 10th generation storage virtualization solution. In use at over 10,000+ customer sites, it maximizes IT infrastructure performance, availability and utilization by virtualizing storage hardware.