SANmelody

SANmelody™ software converts PC servers into cost-effective expansion disk servers. Their added capacity appears as additional internal drives to disk-starved servers on LANs or SANs. This simple solution eliminates the need to commission extra application servers when the existing systems have no more room to add disks. Advanced options include point-in-time snapshots, auto failover across redundant disk servers, auto provisioning of disk space and long-distance asynchronous replication over IP WANs. These functions are host-independent and operate without occupying resources on the application servers.

To enhance application security and availability, SANmelody-equipped disk servers can maintain up to date copies (mirror images) of critical data currently housed on internal disk drives.

SANmelody accelerates performance through built-in caching that minimizes delays from slower mechanical drives. The software equitably distributes the available disk space to multiple applications spread across several machines by carving out smaller logical disks from larger physical disks. Ethernet iSCSI host connections and Fibre Channel high-bandwidth ports are supported. Like other powerful Windows-based software, SANmelody runs on a wide choice of hardware platforms and disk drives. Windows, Linux, Unix, NetWare and MacOS applications may concurrently take advantage of the added gigabytes or terabytes of external disk space.

"We downloaded SANmelody from DataCore's website and had it up and running in minutes. We could serve up disks using an Ethernet connection quickly and easily. SANmelody makes it possible to serve up high-performance and highly available storage using your existing network infrastructure."
-- Dwight Ricks, Wasatch Advisors

SANsymphony

SANsymphony™ software is an enterprise-class open storage networking platform that maximizes the value from IT assets and boosts business productivity. Customers receive enduring ROI benefits from the comprehensive 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. SANsymphony further enhances productivity by eliminating storage-related downtime through non-disruptive provisioning and affordable business continuance options. With these advancements, as well as unprecedented performance and broad connectivity, three times more users can benefit from existing resources.

Many of the benefits derive from advanced techniques that replace labor-intensive, disruptive and time-consuming tasks typically carried out separately for each server and array. Breakthrough hands-free management features include Automated Provisioning of Volumes, flexible Storage Domains, drag-and-drop administration, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication over a broad choice of connections, point-in-time snapshots, and network-wide performance acceleration. These capabilities eliminate wasted time, money and effort to ensure that storage and personnel are most effectively deployed.

As the industry's most powerful independent storage services platform, SANsymphony centralizes control of global disk capacity, quality of service, availability and security using N+1 redundant high-performance network nodes. SANsymphony's consolidated services operate across most disk subsystems (EMC, IBM, HDS, STK, HP, Fujitsu, Compaq, Sun, Dell, LSI, MTI, etc.), network infrastructures, (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Ethernet, IP LANs / WANs) and operating environments (UNIX, Windows, Linux, NetWare, and MacOS).

SANmaestro

Determining Resource and Storage Utilization in a Modern Networked Environment

• Easy to deploy
• Never miss critical performance data
• Scales effortlessly to hundreds or even thousands of machines
• Leverage your existing frameworks for management reporting
• Analyze and gather the information to optimize resource utilization
• Customizable to meet your monitoring, trending and analysis needs

Take Charge of your Windows and Storage Environments

Overview:
SANmaestro software is an analysis and decision support tool that helps you improve capacity planning, resource utilization and quality of service.

SANmaestro monitors, reports, charts, gathers and analyzes system performance and resource utilization information from multiple networked systems.

Obtaining and working with the information necessary to manage assets and resources within a large storage or Windows network can be a formidable task. The network's scale presents challenges to gathering the data needed for current and future utilization and performance profiling, analyzing the data gathered, and communicating that analysis to those who control IT purchases and budgets. For example, many companies have begun "billing" or "charge-backs" of IT costs to company profit centers or affiliates based on usage or quality of service, but in a large IT environment allocating and auditing usage and service can be a monumental task.

SANmaestro software solves these problems by gathering and helping you analyze and report the critical system performance and utilization data you want and need. SANmaestro software is a powerful and "spreadsheet simple" approach to monitor, analyze and report storage and Windows metrics and information across large or complex environments. It is quick to set up, easy to use, and generates useful reports and charts. Most importantly, it is flexible and can be customized to meet your reporting and analysis needs using a simple spreadsheet tool instead of complex programming environments.

What Does it Do?
With SANmaestro software you can:

• Collect system performance and utilization metrics across many systems in real-time
• Analyze historical data accumulated over long periods (up to 2 years)
• Chart, tabulate and analyze selected metrics with spreadsheet simplicity and flexibility to assist in visualizing trends, hot spots and system historical behaviour
• Perform "what if" analysis
• Develop customized reports and charts with SANmaestro's extensible development toolkit - A simple-to-use dynamic spreadsheet with an integrated graphics editor.
• Export historical data to 3rd party tools and network management frameworks for further analysis, processing or audit reports.
  • Uses Comma Separated Values (CSV) format suitable for Excel, SAS, Oracle and other popular data manipulation packages
  • Output may be directed to custom billing and/or charge-back applications

Is SANmaestro Right for You?
Every business with large storage or Windows network should monitor and analyze the utilization and performance of its networked IT assets. Whether they desire to analyze the utilization of their SANsymphony-managed storage resources over extended periods of time or want to analyze metrics from a multitude of Windows systems, SANmaestro is the right solution for businesses that:

• Require an audit trail of historical I/O behavior and capacity consumption
• Want to generate input to billing and charge-back applications based on resources or storage utilization
• Need to profile performance trends and identify hotspots
• Want to use prior trends to predict future needs (capacity planning)
• Needs to cost justify resource utilization for budgeting and ROI analysis
• Wants the data and inputs to be able to perform system health checks
• Wish to better understand loads and system characteristics during periods of peak activity

UpTempo

Speed-up your applications and your systems!

UpTempo™ is powerful, performance accelerator software for Windows-based systems. It dramatically speeds up applications by making the computer system read and write data to its disk drives more efficiently. It does this by overcoming today's biggest performance barrier - data input/output (I/O) bottlenecks resulting from slow, mechanical, disk accesses - the most common cause of server and desktop application underperformance. UpTempo software adds the intelligence and predictive self-learning caching algorithms to speed up workloads and maximize I/O throughput. UpTempo improves response times, maximizes system utilization and dramatically enhances user productivity providing a high Return on Investment (R.O.I.).

UpTempo unleashes your system's performance. Try it and see for yourself. UpTempo removes the I/O speed barrier and opens up the road for top performance.

UpTempo is transparent to the user and to system applications. What's noticeable is increased speed and responsiveness.

UpTempo is easy to use. You "click" to choose which disks to accelerate and whether to speed-up reads or both reads and writes. Set it and let it run, or adjust as desired.