DataCore

DataCore, also known as DataCore Software, is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based developer of software-defined storage. The company is a pioneer in the development of SAN virtualization technology.[1]

DataCore
TypePrivate
Industrycomputer data storage
FoundedFebruary 1998
FounderGeorge Teixeira
Headquarters6300 NW 5th Way, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33309
Key people
Dave Zabrowski, CEO
George Teixeira, Executive Chairman
Productssoftware defined storage, storage virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure
Websitedatacore.com

History

DataCore was founded in Fort Lauderdale in February 1998 by George Teixeira and deceased Ziya Aral, co-workers at parallel computing company Encore Computer.[2] The premise behind the company was to allow network operators to purchase commodity disk drives, external storage arrays or SAN disk drive arrays, and treat them all as virtual disks of networked, block-access storage accessed using either SCSI or Fibre Channel interface. This storage was controlled using DataCore proprietary software stack.[1]

They were joined by 10 other former Encore colleagues, and they all worked without pay until January 1999, when the company secured its first funding round, of US$6 million.[2]

In 2000, the company had another $35 million funding round closed.

In 2006, seeing an exodus of venture funding, company employees mortgaged their homes to keep the business going, until 2008 when a $30 million round of funding stabilized company finances.[2]

In 2011, the company launched SANSymphony-V, an upgrade to its storage virtualization software offering faster performance.[3]

In April 2014, the company released version 10 of its SANSymphony-V product.[4]

In March 2015, DataCore partnered with Chinese technology vendor Huawei to run SANSymphony-V software on Huawei's FusionServer to create virtual storage networks.[5]

In 2016, the company's SANSymphony-V software was reported to have set new price performance records based on testing done by Redwood City, CA-based non-profit testing company Storage Performance Council using their SPC-1 storage performance benchmark.[2] The results led to complaints from multiple vendors and independent consultants, who claimed that storing all the "test" data in cache made the results unfair.[6][7][8] One of the three SPC-1 benchmark results was later withdrawn.[9][10] During the same year company started participating in a country-wide import substitution program launched by Russian government and targeted to replace foreign IT products with an equivalent or at least comparable Russia-developed ones.[11] Plan is to replace US or EU produced hardware storage appliances from Dell, HPE, and Hitachi with a Chinese produced commodity servers running DataCore SANSymphony-V software-defined storage stack on top. [12]

In March 2017 the company partnered with another Chinese technology company Lenovo to develop data center business by integrating DataCore's SANSymphony-V software defined storage with Lenovo's servers. This was reportedly to compete with companies like Nutanix and SimpliVity (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)) that were shipping whole hyper-converged stacks rather than just a software-defined storage component.[13] In September 2017, in an attempt to compete with the in-memory database features of SQL Server, the company released its MaxParallel driver, which uses parallel I/O technology to accelerate database-related processing such as with SQL Server databases.[14] This product has been discontinued less than one year after release due to the low demand. [15]

In April 2018 DataCore announced that Dave Zabrowski, previously CEO of cloud-based financial services company Cloud Cruiser, became its new CEO, and former CEO George Teixeira was named Executive Chairman.[16]

In mid-2019 company started offering some pre-built hyper-converged appliances using undisclosed OEM vendor parts. Product got HCI-Flex name and positioning performance-, price-, and features-wise to compete against Cisco HyperFlex, Nutanix, and Dell PowerFlex HCI appliances. [17]

In 2020 company partnered with ATTO to offer businesses heavily invested into Fibre Channel infrastructure a bundle of ATTO XstreamCORE intelligent bridges and a specialized version of DataCore SANSymphony-V running directly on top of them, to make a virtual FC storage appliance without investing into more FC hardware.[18] In late 2020 company made it to Gartner]'s magic quadrant for the hyperconverged infrastructure as a niche player.[19] In the same year DataCore partnered with Wasabi, cloud storage company to offload shared customers' archive data to Wasabi cloud.[20]

Products/Technology

DataCore develops software to help companies manage their data storage resources.

References
  1. "Can a 'one-trick' software firm survive in era of converged engorgement?". theregister.co.uk. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  2. "Smiley techie Datacore chairman Ziya Aral: RIP". theregister.co.uk. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  3. "DataCore launches SANsymphony-V storage virtualization software". techtarget.com. 2011-01-31. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  4. "Software-defined storage, DataCore style". zdnet.com. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  5. "Huawei, DataCore Join Forces for Hyper-Converged System". eweek.com. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  6. "Are DataCore's SPC benchmarks unfair?". longroom.com. 2016-06-23. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  7. "SPC-1 IOPS performance per GB-NAND – chart of the month". 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  8. "Are DataCore's SPC Benchmarks Unfair?". 2016-06-22. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  9. "SPC says up yours to DataCore". theregister.co.uk. 2016-06-24. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  10. "Withdrawn SPC-1 and SPC-1/E Results". storageperformance.org. 2016-06-16. Archived from the original on 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  11. "Пресс-конференция DataCore в Москве". comnews.ru. 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
  12. "Спасительный ковчег в информационном потопе". iemag.ru. 2016-06-10. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  13. "Partners Cheer Lenovo's DataCore Deal, Ponder Its Long-Term Storage Strategy". CRN.com. 2017-03-16. Retrieved 2017-10-27.
  14. "DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds". theregister.co.uk. 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
  15. "MaxParallel End-of-Life Notice". maxparallel.com. 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  16. "DataCore Software Expands Executive Team, Appoints New CEO and CMO". 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  17. "A Hybrid-Converged Infrastructure Appliance? How DataCore's New HCI-Flex Goes Above and Beyond Hyperconverged 1.0". vmblog.com. 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2019-08-14.
  18. "ATTO Technology and DataCore Software to Provide Cost-Efficient Enterprise Storage Solution Scale storage capacity without having to sacrifice enterprise performance and resiliency". globalnewswire.com. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  19. "Gartner dishes out an HCI MQ Christmas surprise". blocksandfiles.com. 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-11.
  20. "Wasabi and DataCore to Provide Low-Cost Solution for Automated Transfer and Archiving of Files to the Cloud". 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
  21. "Hyper-converged Virtual SAN". gartner. 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2021-01-15.
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