TechValidate Research on SANsymphony™

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise energy & utilities company is based on a February 2014 survey of DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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 75% since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
• Has been able to defer 2 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% with DataCore.
• Improved performance by 3x since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
• Reduced their storage-related downtime by 75% since implementing DataCore.
• Cut planned downtime on data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes by > 75% with DataCore.
• Turned stranded storage capacity into > 50% more free space with DataCore.

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise health care company is based on a February 2014 survey of DataCore SANsymphony-V Storage Virtualization Software customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

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 75% since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
• Has been able to defer 3 storage hardware refresh cycles using DataCore software.

Results

• Realized a positive ROI in the first month with DataCore.
• Effectively reduced their storage-related spending by > 25% with DataCore.
• Improved performance by 3x since virtualizing their storage with DataCore.
• Reduced their storage-related downtime by 90% since implementing DataCore.
• Cut planned downtime on data migrations, upgrades and technology refreshes by > 95% with DataCore.
• Turned stranded storage capacity into > 50% more free space with DataCore.