Storage Virtualization

DataCore SANmelody Listing updated: May 31, 2008

SANsymphony software is an open storage networking platform. Customers receive enduring ROI benefits from the storage management services provided by the software. SANsymphony doubles effective disk utilization by pooling disk space from multiple devices and automatically allocating just enough capacity, just-in-time to needy applications. Automating and consolidating storage control easily increases capacity managed per administrator by tenfold.

DataCore solutions will run on many different server virtualization platforms, such as those from VMware, Xensource, Microsoft and Virtual Iron.
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LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) Listing updated: May 31, 2008

The LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) creates a virtual storage node, including disk drives, cache, processors, and controllers, using resources that already exist inside your virtual servers. These nodes can be clustered together to transform your existing server storage capacity into a virtual storage system, which you can then manage as a single iSCSI SAN.

Created for remote and branch offices, virtual storage systems can extend any LeftHand SAN to geographically dispersed locations. Small to medium businesses also benefit from this affordable solution that delivers the high availability and rapid ROI that they require.
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V-SWITCH Listing updated: June 2, 2008

V-Switch SANRAD’s network architecture couples iSCSI and FC connectivity with integrated storage virtualization and management. It delivers SAN connectivity and storage services throughout the enterprise, and is non-disruptive. Customers can create a new iSCSI SAN or maintain and grow their existing FC infrastructures, while using SANRAD’s iSCSI interconnectivity and management to connect to virtualized servers . V-Switches are storage-agnostic. IT managers can utilize existing resources and employ different brands and classes of storage to meet the varying cost, performance and reliability requirements of the organization.
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FalconStor Virtual Tape Library Listing updated: May 31, 2008

FalconStor VirtualTape Library (VTL) Virtual Appliance is a preinstalled, preconfigured, and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine—bringing VTL technology with data deduplication to virtual environments. Developed for quick and easy deployment, the solution reduces infrastructure costs and complexity while maximizing the value of your storage investments. The FalconStor VTL Virtual Appliance improves the speed, reliability, and manageability of backups while optimizing storage and bandwidth efficiency for disaster recovery (DR) and continuous data availability.
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EMC Rainfinity Global File Virtualization Listing updated: May 31, 2008

EMC Rainfinity Global File Virtualization simplifies networked storage management. Part of EMC's complete virtualization portfolio, Rainfinity virtualizes unstructured data environments and moves data (including active, open files) without disruption. You get more value from your storage investment and lower TCO by boosting efficiency and identifying and maximizing underutilized assets.
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VM Insight Listing updated: May 31, 2008

Onaro’s VM Insight builds on SANscreen’s existing service path awareness and change management capabilities in the data center to provide VM teams further visibility into the networked storage supporting their virtualized servers. VMs have the potential to dramatically improve datacenter economics, but introduce a set of challenges as well. VM Insight is a cross-domain application for both VM system and storage administrators that spans virtual server and traditional server deployments. VM Insight provides IT organizations with the information needed to optimize the risk/reward equation in VM implementations in order to maximize server consolidation while minimizing server consolidation risk.
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FalconStor Continuous Data Protector Listing updated: May 31, 2008

The FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure is a pre-built, pre-configured, TOTALLY Open and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system in a virtual machine. Offering disk-based data protection technology, it protects physical and virtual servers simultaneously for continuous data availability, eliminating data loss from corruption or failure.

The CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure offers recovery of mission-critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems, and enables you to consolidate data assets and simplify data protection.
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EqualLogic PS Series Virtualized iSCSI SANs Listing updated: May 31, 2008

EqualLogic storage technology virtualizes the entire SAN to simplify deployment and ongoing management. In the SAN, volumes are automatically provisioned as a single, scalable pool of storage that leverages all storage resources within the SAN. Even as workload demands shift or migrate between virtual machines and their physical host servers, a virtualized PS Series SAN automatically applies storage resources where and when they are needed without intervention or manual tuning.
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EMC Invista Listing updated: May 31, 2008

EMC Invista brings networked storage virtualization intelligence to your existing storage area network (SAN) infrastructure. With EMC Invista, your enterprise can centralize and streamline storage management, ensure smooth-running operations, eliminate planned downtime, and cut costs. You can move, copy, and migrate data across multiple tiers of heterogeneous storage arrays.
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Storage Center Listing updated: May 30, 2008

Compellent virtualizes at the disk level within Storage Center, accelerating data access by spreading read/write operations across all disk drives in the SAN so multiple requests are processed in parallel. Compellent virtualization allows you to create high performance, highly efficient virtual volumes in just seconds without allocating drives to specific servers, without complicated capacity planning and without performance tuning.
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