Storage News

DataCore Adds NAS Performance Acceleration

Storage virtualization software provider, DataCore Software, has announced that its SANsymphony-V software addresses the three major roadblocks that have previously made it impractical for critical virtualization projects to utilize Network Attached Storage (NAS). According to this Sys-Con article, SANsymphony-V overcomes these shared storage shortcomings and makes it feasible to employ the widely used NAS services already built into the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform in those environments.

"DataCore’s powerful feature set can be easily configured to enhance these Microsoft services. The integrated combination cost-effectively speeds up performance and adds a new level of fault tolerance to clustered network file system (NFS) and common Internet file system (CIFS) sharing.

"The new solution is particularly well-suited for IT organizations that prefer to store their VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenDesktop virtual machine images under NFS or CIFS. Many of them are eager to eliminate bottlenecks and disruptions in their underlying storage systems, but not willing to spend a lot of money doing it."