Virtualization Drives Business: DataCore Names The Mirazon Group 'Central Region...

Virtualization Drives Business: DataCore Names The Mirazon Group 'Central
Region Partner of the Year' at Microsoft WPC09
Microsoft Gold Partner The Mirazon Group Sees Huge Uptick in Clients Deploying
Software-based Storage Virtualization from DataCore

NEW ORLEANS, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Microsoft(R) Worldwide Partner
Conference (WPC) 2009, DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage
virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions,
today announced that The Mirazon Group, an IT solutions provider located in
Louisville, Kentucky, has been named its "Central Region Partner of the Year"
for the twelve months ending June 30, 2009. Mirazon, a very successful
Microsoft Gold partner, has also done many virtualization and Microsoft
Windows Server 2008(R) Hyper-V(TM) deployments in conjunction with DataCore.
"We are thrilled to be named DataCore's Partner of the Year in the Central
Region," states Barry Martin, partner and chief technical architect, The
Mirazon Group. "We are firm believers in DataCore and their approach. Mirazon
fundamentally sees software-based storage virtualization as strategic because
of the value it provides and because of the flexibility of the solutions
virtualization enables our firm to create. For our firm, storage is core and
software-based storage virtualization is key."

The Mirazon Group is comprised of 25 people, of which 18 are practicing
consultants. Currently, the firm has 30 client companies using DataCore SAN
solutions for software-based storage virtualization. Mirazon Group clients
using DataCore include: E-On (formally Louisville Gas & Electric Company),
External IT, Genlyte Group, GSI Hosting, Hoefer Wysocki Architects, Homecare
Homebase, Inoac Packaging Group, Internetek, ISCO Industries, Jefferson
National Financial Corp, Kentucky Neighborhood Bank, Kentucky Trailer,
Louisville Bedding, M.E. Group, Mountjoy, My Career Network, National
Distributors, Omaha Fixture International, Orr Safety, Premium Finance
Specialists, QSR Automation, Realityworks, Speed Art Museum, Sullivan
University, Trilogy Health Services, and Whip Mix Corporation, among others.

"Storage is at the core of every solution with which we are involved - it is
that fundamental," comments Martin. He and his colleague, Solutions Architect
Craig Stein, feel that software-based storage virtualization enables their
firm to take advantage of new technologies, including hardware, that are
coming out all the time. "Software-based storage virtualization lets our firm
and our customers take advantage of what is quickly becoming the
commoditization of storage hardware in our industry," notes Stein. "We can use
commodity-priced servers and disks with DataCore running on top of these to
create a tremendous value proposition."

A Trusted IT Advisor that Puts Virtualization at the Heart of It All

Mirazon's expertise spans both IT consulting and solutions integration. In
practice, what this means is that the firm can take products that it offers on
behalf of its vendor partners and weave various products together to form more
complete solutions.

Serving as a trusted IT advisor to its clients, The Mirazon Group's mission
revolves around "Providing Vision for Technology Solutions." The company earns
the trust of its clients by always keeping the client's best interests at
heart. "We have found that virtualization now is touching just about every
solution that we do--from the largest to the smallest customer," states Stein.
"Virtualization is part of a roadmap for all of our clients."

"We seek to understand the environment BEFORE we present a solution,"
continues Stein. "Our customers respond very favorably to this. They like the
fact that we don't just tell them what they need right-off-the-bat. What we do
up front is ask a lot of questions. We in turn try and educate them as far as
what the options and alternatives are - in order to select the right solution.
That solution may be the one - to the surprise of our customers - that is
frequently NOT the most expensive solution. Apart from blowing our customers'
minds - by recommending the lower cost solutions - this also serves to prove
to them that we are in fact acting in their best interests."

The Power of DataCore - Flexibility

The mindset that The Mirazon Group has always had is that they want customers
to have a choice and they want customers to make the best choice for their
business. Using virtualized storage enables customers to have this freedom of
choice - particularly in terms of brand of hardware. "Beyond the technology,
we like working with DataCore as a company," emphasizes Martin. "The employees
of DataCore are top-notch. They are great people and they have the same focus
we do - the success of the customer. It is very enjoyable to work together
with DataCore as a partner company and we appreciate that they are 100%
channel-driven."

In business since February 2000, The Mirazon Group has been able to set itself
apart from the average IT solutions provider by having a specific
virtualization practice that is industry-certified. The firm has
VMware-Certified Professionals on staff. It is one of the first solutions
providers certified as a Microsoft Virtualization Partner in terms of their
virtualization competency. Several individuals at The Mirazon Group are
certified on Microsoft Windows 2008 Hyper-V Server platform. Moreover, Mirazon
is a Citrix-certified partner with engineers certified on Citrix XenServer.
The firm also partners with numerous vendors squarely in the virtualization
space. DataCore is a prime example. Another partner of Mirazon is Veeam
Software, who has the backup solution to the other virtualization solutions
offered by Mirazon.

"Nobody has the complete feature set that DataCore has in a software-based
storage virtualization solution," concludes Martin. "More than that, in terms
of the quality of DataCore's virtualization solutions, our experience has been
- install it and it works. That is how a SAN has to function. It has to be
rock-solid."

Solution Providers

VARs and system integrators that would like to partner with DataCore should
visit http://www.datacore.com/stepuptodatacore or contact an authorized
distributor.

DataCore and Microsoft - Virtual Storage for a Virtual World

DataCore is essential to Microsoft Hyper-V configurations. DataCore yields the
highest availability, fastest performance and fullest utilization from storage
assets, making it an essential element of Microsoft Hyper-V configurations. To
learn more about DataCore and Microsoft solutions, please visit:
http://www.datacore.com/microsoft.

See DataCore at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC)

See DataCore in booth #301 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference.
Microsoft WPC 2009 provides a forum to learn about the latest Microsoft
products, programs, strategies, and cutting-edge technologies. Microsoft WPC09
runs July 13-16, 2009 in New Orleans, LA at the Ernest N. Morial Convention
Center. For more, visit http://www.digitalwpc.com/.

About The Mirazon Group

The Mirazon Group was formed to provide networking infrastructure assistance
to business big or small. Our staff is made up of Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineers, Microsoft Certified Trainers, Certified VMware and SAN Engineers
and Certified Cisco professionals. The team of professionals Mirazon employs
has been providing state of the art technical services for over 20 years.
Architectural designers and project managers alike are skilled in being able
to reduce implementation time of projects and lower the total cost of applying
new technology. For more, go to http://www.mirazon.com/.

About DataCore Software

DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization 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 lowers the cost and
complexity of IT by making storage efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and
virtual. DataCore's portable storage server software simplifies and automates
capacity expansion and centralizes storage management for Windows, UNIX,
Linux, MacOS and NetWare operating systems as well as hypervisors from
Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and other suppliers. 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.

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