Bringing the Speed of Flash to Your Software-Defined Storage Infrastructure

Interested in hearing the top trends we’ve observed at Microsoft’ Ignite 2017?

We have you covered. Join us as we recap the top trends and highlights of the news and interesting tidbits from Microsoft Ignite. It’s the next best thing to being there! If you were able to attend the event, this is a good chance to compare notes with us.

We think differently. We innovate through software and challenge the IT status quo.

We pioneered software-based storage virtualization. Now, we are leading the Software-defined and Parallel Processing revolution. Our Application-adaptive software exploits the full potential of servers and storage to solve data infrastructure challenges and elevate IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business.

DataCore parallel I/O and virtualization technologies deliver the advantages of next generation enterprise data centers – today – by harnessing the untapped power of multicore servers. DataCore software solutions revolutionize performance, cost-savings, and productivity gains businesses can achieve from their servers and data storage.

Join this webinar to meet DataCore, learn about what we do and how we can help your business.

Surveys show that 61% of companies have experienced slow applications after server virtualization, with 77% pointing to I/O problems as the culprit. Companies are desperately trying to improve their I/O performance to speed-up applications and increase VM density.

The most common performance measurement is IOPS, but is this the best metric?

IOPS depends on a number of variables, including the type of workload being simulated, read/write percentages, sequent/random percentages and block size. Most importantly, IOPS doesn’t indicate the response time.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss better ways to measure response times as I/O increases. These metrics will help you understand why some storage products can claim high number of IOPS but still perform poorly when they are used for critical applications in production.

We will also show how a software-defined storage appliance (the Lenovo DX8200D Powered by DataCore) can speed up your applications.

Did you attend VMworld 2017?

If so, then let us summarize the top trends we observed at the show and compare notes with you.

Missed the event? Don’t worry, we have you covered. Join us as we cover the top trends and highlights of the news and interesting tidbits from VMworld. It’s the next best thing to being there!

Surveys show that 64% of companies have storage arrays from 3 or more vendors. What does it mean to manage storage infrastructure with so many different products?

In a word, CHAOS!

That’s why a majority of people interested in software-defined storage (SDS) want to simplify management of their storage infrastructure.

Join us for this webinar where we will show how the Lenovo DX8200D Powered by DataCore can bring order to your environment. The DX8200D is the fast path to SDS and it:
• Abstracts away the underlying complexity of storage infrastructure
• Consolidates IT infrastructure and simplifies management through automation and self-adaptive technologies.

When you are trying to consolidate, simplify and automate your IT infrastructure, both Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) and Software-defined Storage (SDS) promise to deliver the results you expect. For this reason, analysts predict HCI and SDS to grow rapidly compared to legacy architectures.

But, with all the vendors and products in the HCI and SDS areas, how do you pick the “right” ones to evaluate? Too often, you have to rely on one-sided information from the vendors themselves.

Join us as we evaluate the top products in the HCI and SDS categories using analysis from an unbiased, independent organization called WhatMatrix. In this webinar, we will cover the:
- Criteria to evaluate these products
- Pros and cons of different vendors’ products

Storage and infrastructure are going through a lot of changes. With technologies like Software-defined Storage as well as new infrastructure like Hyper-converged, there is a lot for IT admins to consider.

Join us in this webinar where we’ll cover Software-defined Storage, Flash, Hyper-converged and Cloud Storage. You learn why these technologies and infrastructure models are or aren't being utilized by companies and the areas where they have not lived up to their promises.

In the context of digital transformation, businesses are shifting more and more to hyper converged systems. Gartner is even predicting that hyper converged solutions will become mainstream in the next five years. You are probably wondering why hyper convergence is so popular with tech leadership today? What makes hyper convergence such a big thing?

Join this webinar to hear Sushant Rao answer all your questions.
Among topics discussed will be:
- Industry trends in the field;
- How to ascertain if hyper-convergence is right for you;
- What pitfalls to avoid when choosing a solution;
- Example of a hyper-converge install.

When you are hit by a ransomware attack, such as the recent WannaCrypt worm, you don’t have many options. You can pay the ransom, in the hopes that your data will be unencrypted. Or, you can wipe your systems clean, and then recover the data. But, backups are typically done on a daily basis. Depending on when the attack hit, the amount of data that you will lose could be in the hours. Fortunately, there is a better option.

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) captures every write operation from an application and store it in a second location. This means that you can go back to the last data that was written before the ransomware attacked occurred. This ensure that data loss, if any, is minimal. Join this webinar to learn more about CDP and why it’s your safety net when ransomware hits.

At DataCore, we can help your business address these challenges.

How does an organization that is looking to improve their MS SQL Server performance end up with hyperconverged infrastructure? Well, why would they? Hyperconverged is typically used for VDI and lightly loaded remote sites. But a mission-critical application like SQL Server? On Hyperconverged? Who would take that risk?
In this webinar, hear from Emergency Communications of Southern Oregon (ECSO) that found that not only were they able to improve their SQL Server performance (by 20x!) with hyperconverged, they were also able to improve their availability and reduce costs to boot.

Many of us responsible for large scale OLTP systems confront two clashing phenomena:
•Data comes at us at increasingly higher rates (from an expanding number of sources)
•The time required to process and analyze those inputs is rapidly shrinking.

Blame it on the Internet of Things (IoT)!

Instinctively, we respond with two approaches. First, we search for hardware and software that speed up the process.
Then, we try breaking up the problem into smaller parallel efforts.

In this webinar you will learn to:
•Look for choke points that get in the way of executing concurrent transactions
(Hint: they hide where you don’t suspect)
•Recognize the consequences those choke points have on competing workloads
•Apply DataCore™ Parallel I/O technology to solve these barriers

Lenovo and DataCore have collaborated to create a Software-defined Storage (SDS) appliance. This validated, turnkey appliance provides easy scalability and single pane management at a fraction of the cost of legacy systems—without trade-offs in availability, reliability or functionality.

Join this webinar to learn more about the Lenovo Storage DX8200D Powered by DataCore.

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a huge trend in data centers. Analysts predict HCI - along with other Software-defined Storage technologies - will radically change current storage architectures.

But, is HCI right for you? What use cases make sense for HCI?

Join us as we will discuss how to get started with HCI. Topics that will be covered in this webinar include:

- Use cases suitable for HCI
- Criteria to evaluate HCI products
- Pros and cons of different vendors’ HCI
- Avoiding the missteps of early adopters

Application performance, availability and security are key issues IT departments in law firms struggle with today. It is imperative that you keep your firm's critical applications running fast and always available for your attorneys. Is there a cost effective and manageable solution?

Join our webinar on January 26th to hear how law firms like yours are they are taking advantage of existing storage infrastructure to:

• Improve application performance
•Ensure document management and email systems operate 24/7
• Reduce both CapEx and OpEx expenditure
•Enable a hassle free experience with zero downtime


Hear real case studies on how law firms like yours are deploying Lenovo Converged Server SAN appliances powered by DataCore to reduce cost and increase productivity. As the world leader in price/performance, Lenovo and DataCore together allow you to run more workloads, with better applications performance and availability.

Server virtualization was supposed to consolidate and simplify IT infrastructure in data centers. But, that only “sort of happened”. Companies do have fewer servers but they never hit the consolidation ratios they expected. Why? In one word, performance.

Surveys show that 61% of companies have experienced slow applications after server virtualization with 77% pointing to I/O problems as the culprit.

Now, with hyperconverged, companies have another opportunity to fulfill their vision of consolidating and reduce the complexity of their infrastructure. But, this will only happen if their applications get the I/O performance they need.

Join us for this webinar where we will show you how to get industry leading I/O response times and the best price/performance so you can reduce and simplify your infrastructure.

Did you attend AWS re:Invent 2016? If so, then let us summarize the key takeaways and top trends we observed at the show and compare notes with you.

Missed the event? Don’t worry, we have you covered. Join us as we cover the top trends and highlights of the news and interesting tidbits from re:Invent. It’s the next best thing to being there!

Clouds have been touted as the next big thing in IT infrastructure for nearly a decade, but larger enterprises have been slower to adopt the service delivery model than smaller firms. The reasons have been several, but a key stumbling block has been the legacy storage infrastructure that companies have already deployed. Planners are reluctant to rip and replace legacy shared storage infrastructure, especially in those cases where applications have been designed to use the particular storage topology or when anticipated returns have not yet been obtained from storage investments. While the appeal of hybrid public-private cloud data centers is a given, and the concept of building your base and buying your burst is viewed as a sound strategy for next generation data center design, there is still a need for technology that will enable existing shared storage infrastructure to be included and managed alongside software-defined and hyper-converged infrastructure models. Such technology must work with storage infrastructure both on premise and in a public cloud and without sacrificing performance or resiliency.

The good news is that the technology exists today that can help organizations:

- Reduce I/O latency at the source, by parallelizing raw I/O output
- Retain shared storage infrastructure while embracing software-defined storage where it makes sense
- Deliver the right storage services to the right data based on what the data requires

See how DataCore can help you bring cloud infrastructure to your data center in an intelligent way.