DataCore Software Updates Storage Virtualization Free Trial Software; Includes Performance Acceleration, Migration Tools and Support for iSCSI, Fibre Channel and FCoE

DataCore Software Updates Storage Virtualization Free Trial Software; Includes
Performance Acceleration, Migration Tools and Support for iSCSI, Fibre Channel
and FCoE
Updated Free Trial Software Goes Beyond iSCSI, Includes FC and New FCoE
Support, Content Migration, Snapshot for Cloning and Fast Backups along with
Space-Efficient Thin Provisioning.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- DataCore Software, a leading
provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery
software solutions, today announced that it has updated its Free Trial
software, which is architected to optimize and manage users' storage. This
free trial of SANmelody(TM) iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and
Fibre Channel SAN evaluation software, comes with performance acceleration,
content migration, snapshot and thin provisioning - all included. The
evaluation software enables data centers and IT departments to consolidate and
maximize their disk capacity utilization. SANmelody simplifies management and
leverages existing storage hardware and networking to efficiently serve the
storage needs for Windows, Netware, MacOS, UNIX, and Linux systems as well as
Microsoft, VMware and Citrix virtual servers and desktops.

The Free Trial software
http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmel_trynow_form.asp supports group
snapshot and cloning, simple content migration and iSCSI and Fibre Channel as
well as FCoE.

FCoE Connectivity - Access Fibre Channel storage pool via the LAN switching
infrastructure. Application servers and other storage consumers can now access
SANmelody nodes equipped with Fibre Channel SAN connections using their
Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs). This capability takes advantage of
the new Fibre Channel over Ethernet protocol and FCoE-compliant switches.

Group Snapshot and Clone Command - Synchronize online snapshots across
inter-dependent volumes. This capability coordinates multiple snapshots to
occur at the same time across a group of related volumes. It ensures
point-time synchronization of file systems and application data that reside on
different disks. Fast and efficient disk-to-disk backups across volumes are
greatly simplified - plus it ensures that clones created on new equipment are
an exact replica of their predecessor.

Content Migration - Relocate active drives into the virtual storage pool. This
feature enables existing drives formatted with NTFS file systems to be
incorporated easily into the SANmelody storage pool. These physical drives are
first un-mounted from the application servers where they were once active, and
then reconnected behind a SANmelody node. The SANmelody node acts as an
intermediary between the application server and these drives. To take full
advantage of SANmelody advanced virtualization features, their contents may be
copied to virtual disks using snapshots. The relocated drives can then be
wiped clean and included in the physical storage pool as additional capacity,
or they may be decommissioned.

See the following announcement on recent DataCore SANmelody enhancements -
link: http://www.datacore.com/pressroom/pr_live.asp?date=10/14/2009

SANmelody Free Trial Software with iSCSI + FCoE + FC SAN Support: Try It Now!

DataCore SANmelody software converts standard Intel/AMD servers, blades or
virtual machines (VMs) into fully capable SAN-wide storage servers that
virtualize disks and serve them over existing networks to application servers.
For a FREE 30-day trial go to:
http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmel_trynow_form.asp.

With the SANmelody evaluation software, users can:

-- Pool up to 1 Terabyte of disk space.
-- Support a mix of iSCSI/Ethernet, FCoE and Fibre Channel connectivity.
-- Speed up application performance with "Mega-Caching" - using surplus
server memory to cache I/Os from the virtual SAN.
-- "Thin Provision" storage.
-- Use Snapshots for Instant Volume Cloning and Fast Disk-to-Disk Backups

-- Create a SAN from your server's internal disks. No need for new
hardware!

Special Offer: Go Beyond the Evaluation "Free Trial" Package with a
Feature-Packed, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery SAN Software

For users who need to go beyond the "starter" Free Trial version because their
requirements are more demanding, DataCore is offering special promotions on
"Feature-Packed SAN Software," which provide additional, more advanced
features such as auto-failover, high-availability mirroring and asynchronous
IP Mirroring.

To learn more, please visit:
http://www.datacore.com/products/prod_SANmelody_buy.asp

For info on Customer Promotions: http://www.datacore.com/customerprograms/ or
contact DataCore directly at: info@datacore.com

About DataCore Software

DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization software
solutions, 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. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit
http://www.datacore.com.

DataCore, SANmelody and the DataCore logo are trademarks or registered
trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service
names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software
Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein
may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contacts:

Red Nine PR
Stuart Smith
336-896-1874
ssmith@redninePR.com

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DataCore Software
publicrelations@datacore.com

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