Releases

posted on 13 March 2008 04:20

Reading, UK: The trend in the US continues to show that Citrix XenServer is definitely gaining momentum in the virtualisation marketplace. Customers and partners alike are benefiting from the fact that DataCore storage virtualisation solutions are the first 'Citrix Ready' SAN solutions for Citrix XenServer. 

The Citrix XenServer and DataCore Software combination of solutions allow US customers server virtualisation and SAN storage protection

Making the Virtual Enterprise a Reality at Sherron Associates, Inc.

"Without the Citrix XenServer and DataCore combination, we would not have been able to afford to consolidate our servers and install a SAN to protect our storage," said Gayle Spencer, network administrator, Sherron Associates. "From a financial perspective, any other solution would have been much more expensive and would not have extended the cost savings benefits of virtualisation to both servers and storage. Had we chose to replace our existing hardware, even the best scenario would have entailed replacing at least a few of our existing, older servers at a cost of $8,000 - $10,000, a piece."

Sherron Associates, Inc. is a property management firm located in Bellevue, Washington, US. At the start of 2008, this firm was at a point where all of its equipment (with the exception of two servers) was more than five years old and was becoming increasingly problematic. According to Network Administrator Gayle Spencer, 'Going virtual' with Citrix XenServer and DataCore SANmelody was the most practical thing for the firm to do because with that combination the firm could cost-effectively virtualise and consolidate their storage resources and their entire server farm, consisting of seven servers, on two servers using XenServer and SANmelody.

According to Spencer, "SANmelody just works. The beauty is that I do not even have to think about it. It makes managing our infrastructure far more simple and flexible. Above all, DataCore's SANmelody made it easy to set up a high-availability SAN to support our move from an aging server farm to new XenServer based systems."

DataCore and Citrix XenServer = New Sales for Virtualisation Partner, Moose Logic

"DataCore and Citrix XenServer are a logical combination for anyone going virtual and best of all customers get it immediately once they see it in action," said Scott Gorcester, founder, Moose Logic. "Four new customer wins in our first month of the partnership makes the point obvious. The DataCore partnership will help us extend the scope of what we offer in terms of virtual infrastructure to our Citrix XenServer clients as well as to our entire base of clients and prospects. Strategically, I see DataCore accelerating our server virtualisation sales cycles as well as becoming the storage virtualisation vendor on which we can build our Citrix XenServer practice into a 'Total Enterprise Virtualisation' practice."

Moose Logic is one of the US' leading Citrix value-added resellers, delivering DataCore storage virtualisation solutions to their market in the northwestern United States and offers the full line of DataCore's SAN storage virtualisation, disaster recovery, and continuous data protection solutions, including the newly announced, SANmelody-based VM Starter SAN and Feature-Packed Storage Virtualisation Solutions. The addition of DataCore will meet growing client demand for more virtualisation solutions as well as complement and enhance Moose Logic's current infrastructure virtualisation and productivity offerings, such as Citrix XenServer. 

Four new Citrix and DataCore virtualisation customers include Sherron Associates, Inc., Douglas County, Digital Control and Integra Pacific Mortgage.

DataCore: Delivering New Dimensions in Storage Virtualisation
DataCore storage virtualisation extends virtual infrastructure all the way through to storage, providing dramatically improved storage utilization, flexibility and cost savings, together with enterprise-class, SMB-priced, storage control and data protection.

At the same time, DataCore technology helps users get the most out of their investments in Citrix XenServer and other storage dependent virtualisation solutions by eliminating the physical storage road block. This is because all DataCore products are portable, software-based solutions that run on standard Intel/AMD hardware servers, blades or on Virtual Machines (VMware, Citrix XenServer, Oracle VM, Sun VM, Virtual Iron, and Microsoft Virtual Servers).

DataCore storage virtualisation solutions install in minutes on any standard Windows server. They can serve storage to Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, Solaris, AIX, and Netware servers, whether physical or virtual.

"DataCore provides resellers and system integrators with cost-effective and affordable SAN and iSCSI solutions that do for storage what Citrix XenServers do for servers," said Carlos M. Carreras, vice president of sales and business development, DataCore Software.

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualisation SAN software, fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and services with the agility and savings of hardware independence. DataCore's disk server software easily adds capacity expansion and centralized storage management for Windows, UNIX, Linux, VMware, MacOS, and NetWare systems. DataCore is privately held and its corporate headquarters are in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit http://www.datacore.com/.

About Moose Logic
With over 500 systems under management today, Moose Logic is a managed services provider that designs, develops and maintains networking and communications systems. Launched in 1993, Moose Logic utilises industry leading computing solutions, fault-tolerant business critical solutions, and best of breed communication products. Moose Logic is a certified reseller for Microsoft, Citrix Systems, DataCore Software, NSI Software, Motion Computing Tablets, Ultrabac, Marathon Technologies, Scriptlogic and Watchguard Technologies. Moose Logic is a recognised leader serving Pacific Northwest businesses with 5 to 250 PCs. For more information, visit http://www.mooselogic.com/.

[Majid Soltani, staff writer.]