Datacore Unveils VM Starter San Package

VM-ready out-of-the-box, feature-packed VM Starter SAN delivers true hardware portability, supports thin provisioning, SANmotion, performance acceleration, high availability and disaster recovery, and comes with "Carry Forward Investment Protection" DataCore Software, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a leading provider of storage virtualization SAN software, has announced that it has brought to market a new, iSCSI-enabled, VM Starter SAN package. This feature-packed version of DataCore's SANmelody comes bundled and ready-to-use. Priced around $4,000 (per SAN server), the VM Starter SAN bundle includes auto-allocating thin provisioning storage support, SANmotion data migration technology, high performance caching software, snapshots for fast disk backups, auto failover/failback data protection via synchronous network mirroring as well as remote site disaster recovery support through asynchronous IP mirror replication. The DataCore VM Starter SAN provides the simplest and most affordable way on the market to get started realizing the cost savings and productivity benefits of a fully featured, virtual SAN.