DataCore Storage Virtualization Achieves Worldwide Success in Health Care

Company’s storage virtualization products become first choice for cost-efficient storage among health care organizations.

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) December 9, 2005 -- DataCore Software today announced its growing worldwide presence in the health care sector and the recent addition in Germany of fifteen new hospitals and medical centers using DataCore storage virtualization solutions. DataCore Germany’s success over the last six months reflects a broader trend of health care organizations throughout the world embracing DataCore’s affordable, open storage solutions. Beyond Germany, the worldwide base of health care users continues to grow with the addition of new deployments and upgrades at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Indiana's Community Health Network, EngenderHealth, Hunterdon Medical Center, East Kent NHS Trust, Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust, Royal Bolton Hospital, Maimonides Medical Center, Virginia Women's Center, Washington Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake Valley Health, Sentara Health, Varian Medical and China's Xinjiang People's Hospital, among others.

The rapidly rising amount of data in health care due to the increasing digitization of patients’ data, X-rays and imaging records as well as the higher demands for data retention compliance laws (from regulations such as HIPAA) are greatly impacting storage choices. This dramatic increase for data storage combined with mounting cost pressures on IT departments make DataCore’s cost-efficient solutions extraordinarily attractive for health care organizations. DataCore’s SANsymphony and SANmelody cover the widest range of storage needs – from smaller LAN based iSCSI storage networks to the largest center wide SAN infrastructures.

“After examining various options and doing ROI calculations, we chose DataCore’s SANmelody because it lowers our overall storage costs, makes the administration more effective and increases the utilization of existing capacity,” said Volker Kober, chief of IT at ZSP Zentrum Soziale Psychiatrie, a leading psychiatric clinic in Bergstrasse, Germany. “Our IT department depends on the data mirroring and auto-provisioning functions of the software. By deploying SANmelody, we have simplified our storage management, reduced the overall administration effort and are getting much greater productivity out of our clinical systems, which are now much more efficient.”

SANmelody transforms an industry standard PC-server into an affordably priced disk-server, which pools, manages and delivers disk space as needed to all types of applications over an Ethernet based LAN using iSCSI. Users profit from gaining access to high availability functions and high-end features that are usually reserved for more costly FC storage area networks (SANs). SANmelody supports either FC or IP based SANs.

DataCore’s flagship storage infrastructure solution, SANsymphony, pools existing capacities from storage sub-systems or SANs, independent of type or vendor, while enhancing the performance and utilization of the centralized storage pool capacities. In addition, lower-cost JBODs (just a bunch of disks) can be added to the storage pools to achieve greater performance – typically as fast as the more intelligent but expensive raid array systems.

“SANsymphony supports many users and application platforms along with their heterogeneous storage and SAN environments. It enables the integration of existing disk sub-systems and offers long term cost benefits because the software lets us be hardware independent,” explains Kosmas Schütz, manager of the service center information systems at Munich-Schwabing hospital. “The solution’s cost-performance ratio has convinced us that with DataCore we can realize top mainframe SAN features at PC server prices!”

“For health care as well as other industries, the significant benefits of DataCore’s storage solutions are hardware independence, lower administrative efforts, more effective utilization of the existing storage, as well as flexibility when expanding capacities,” said George Teixeira, president and CEO, DataCore Software. “This hardware independence provides a high degree of investment protection and means that an enterprise’s choice of drives or servers for inclusion in the storage pool mix can be based solely on finding the lowest cost options.”

According to Tobias Wellhausen, Vice President of Sales at DataCore’s German partner CEMA AG, “Companies in health care find themselves increasingly confronted with high storage management demands due to the increased need for digitization. Budgets are not growing and therefore the cost pressure is intense. DataCore has proven that it can deliver affordable and powerful solutions for this sector. The software provides the necessary reliability, performance and growth flexibility hospitals nowadays depend on.”

About DataCore Software
DataCore Software fundamentally changes the economics of managing storage. 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 with corporate headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. For more information, visit www.datacore.com.

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