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

Hyperconverged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations.

While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers.

However, there are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyperconverged systems to realize their promise. Sign up to discover:
• What are hyperconverged systems?
• What challenges do they pose?
• What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
• A solution that helps integrate hyperconverged systems with existing SANs

Running mission-critical applications and providing continuous access to data are the lifeblood of any healthcare organization. That’s why a business continuity plan is uniquely important to the healthcare sector.

Hear directly from Maimonides Medical Center’s CTO Gabriel Sandu as he shares how their organization uses software-defined storage as a strategic solution to achieve their business continuity plans.

DataCore has been assisting many hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the world in building upon their continuity planning efforts.

During this webinar, our technical business continuity experts will walk you through real-life healthcare disaster incidents. They will share how major hospitals have survived hurricanes, floods, power outages and building failures by using software-defined storage to provide uninterrupted operations to applications and critical medical data systems during crisis events.

Join this session and learn how DataCore’s software empowers business continuity for healthcare organizations such as New York-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Maimonides Medical Center, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

Flash storage technologies will continue to be a front-runner in 2018 for storage vendors and consumers, however why is it that only 2% of data centers have gone all flash? What are the challenges that storage providers and data center infrastructure managers are still facing with flash, despite it's importance in the marketplace?

In the age of digital transformation, IT Infrastructure must embrace new technologies and software-defined storage systems, while still maintaining server and data center performance.

Join this webinar with Flash gurus Alex Best and Alfons Michels to learn the essential steps to take to ensure the perfect coupling of Flash. Sign up to discover:
• 3 reasons why only 2% of data centres have gone All Flash
• Ideal coupling scenarios where All Flash can help vs Challenging environments for Flash
• 2 essential steps to take before you invest more

Is there such a thing as the Perfect All-Flash Relationship?

Flash storage technologies will continue to be a front-runner in 2018 for storage vendors and consumers, however why is it that only 2% of data centers have gone all flash? What are the challenges that storage providers and data center infrastructure managers are still facing with flash, despite it's importance in the marketplace? In the age of digital transformation, IT Infrastructure must embrace new technologies and software-defined storage systems, while still maintaining server and data center performance.

Join this webinar with Flash gurus Alex Best and Alfons Michels to learn the essential steps to take to ensure the perfect coupling of Flash. This session will cover:

• 3 reasons why only 2% of data centres have gone All Flash
• Ideal coupling scenarios where All Flash can help vs Challenging environments for Flash
• 2 essential steps to take before you invest more

We live in a data-driven and application-driven world in which application performance and business outcomes are king. We're also in an era in which organizations are seeking new ways to leverage IT, which often includes tearing down the constructs that have defined IT for so long and rebuilding on a newer foundation. Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as a key driver in these efforts, but it's not a perfect challenger, at least not yet.

Join us for this webinar as we take an application-centric journey through the data center where you will discover how DataCore's Parallel I/O technology revolutionizes application performance outcomes in a hyperconverged world, while helping you drive down costs, and improve business agility, all key components in modern digital transformation efforts.

On this webinar you’ll discover:

- The primary concerns regarding traditional hyperconverged infrastructure performance and scale
- Key reasons that all-flash isn't always the answer to addressing performance challenges
- How an affordable software approach to hyperconverged infrastructure performance can revolutionize your business
- Key business and performance outcomes that come from DataCore's Parallel I/O technology

Businesses lose productivity, revenue and resources during unplanned outages. To prevent unexpected downtime, many organizations are searching for solutions that can provide business continuity without breaking their budgets.

What if you were able to achieve both goals while utilizing your existing commodity hardware? How would this benefit your customers and improve productivity?

Join this webinar and we will show you:
- How to keep 2 active copies of your data, even if your disks are from different vendors
- An economical way to deploy existing x86 servers for business continuity
- Ways to keep your hosts and applications running, even if you lose one of your SANs
- How to cluster your preexisting Hypervisors using local disks for high availability

Technological innovation is increasing and expanding at an exponential rate. In response, digital transformation has become an established objective for many enterprises, and the adoption of digital initiatives is now widespread. Docker, Kubernetes and other technologies related to containers are being leveraged to access and deploy systems of engagement. But before you go adding these technologies to your digital transformation road-map, you need to evaluate whether they're the best fit for your needs.

In this webinar you'll discover how to:
• Use containers for digital initiatives
• Maintain the desired application state and manage persistent storage
• Maximize your IT investments by leveraging existing infrastructure
• Automate and integrate your infrastructure

Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. Join us on this webinar to learn how DataCore provides data management and integrity across your infrastructure!

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.

Learn new ways SQL Server can leverage idle cores to improve the responsiveness of highly concurrent, I/O-intensive OLTP workloads.

It’s surprisingly simple.

George Teixeira, our CEO, President and Co-Founder once said:

“DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven architecture liberating data and its productivity from static hardware based limitations.”

We are expanding on our vision with the new capabilities in the next release of DataCore SANsymphony and Hyperconverged Virtual SAN.

Join us for this webinar and learn about:

•DataCore Cloud Replication
•Container Management
•Data Resiliency
•Automation & Enhanced API Integration

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.

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.