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DataCore Software’s Global User Community Reveals Top Ten SAN Tips For Storage Virtualization

Wednesday, 14 June 2006 by Michel Roth

DataCore Software today announced that it has published key findings from a series of global user group roundtables wherein DataCore users have identified their key lessons learned in working with DataCore’s products for storage control, storage management and storage consolidation. Comprising the user group roundtables were representatives from Maimonides Hospital (US), Canon (US), NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (US), Fidelity’s Homebuilders Financial Network (US), World Savings (US), Fingerhut (US), Hunterdon Medical Center (US), Yorkshire Water (UK), Stephenson Harwood (UK), NAPP Pharmaceuticals (UK), Degussa (Germany), Bitburger (Germany), among many others.

“Over the past six quarters, DataCore conducted a series of quarterly user group meetings, which were held in the Americas, in Europe and in the Asia Pacific regions,” said George Teixeira, President and CEO, DataCore Software. “The knowledge that we have derived by these is revealing and we feel that it is important to share this with the data storage community at large to help further best practices in the industry.”

Key lessons learned from DataCore’s global user groups include:

•1 Keep it simple and avoid complexity.
•2 Flexibility is key. Avoid vendor lock-in and proprietary hardware.
•3 Document your storage area network (SAN) environment.
•4 Test, test, test.
•5 People, Product and Procedure are all equally important.
•6 Good fences make good neighbors.
•7 Deploy a SAN with advanced storage management features to get more than connectivity.
•8 Deploy a SAN solution with redundancy throughout.
•9 Future-proof for storage management.
•10 Keep it simple and avoid complexity for backups and disaster recovery.

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