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DataCore Software is an independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking.

History
DataCore Software Corporation was founded by George S. Teixeira and Ziya A. Aral on February 4,1998, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The original team of 12 employees had previously designed and pioneered high-end storage subsystems at Encore Computer. The company was formed with the vision of building portable storage virtualization software to manage and control storage resources and insulate users and applications from storage-related disruptions. The original team worked without pay throughout 1998 before receiving nearly 8 million dollars from angel investors and venture capital firms NEA and Flagship Ventures]]\\ in January, 1999. DataCore received $30 million of venture capital investment on May, 2008 from Insight Ventures and Updata Partners.

SANsymphony-V Release 9.0
DataCore launched SANsymhony-V 9.0, dubbed the "Storage Hypervisor for the Cloud," on July 2, 2012.

SANsymphony-V Release 8.0
After two years in development, DataCore released SANsymphony-V on January 31, 2011. SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor and virtualization software enables datacenters to use existing equipment and conventional storage devices to achieve the robust and responsive shared storage environment necessary to support highly dynamic virtual IT environments. SANsymphony-V software solves difficult storage-related challenges introduced by server and desktop virtualization, cloud computing and more general expansion, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives. It forms an active, transparent virtualization layer across disk storage devices to maximize the availability, performance and utilization of data centers of all sizes. The integrated set of centrally-managed data protection, provisioning, caching, replication and migration functions operates uniformly over different models and brands, assimilating current and future equipment non-disruptively. SANsymphony-V speeds up applications, delivers uninterrupted data access and extends the life of tiered storage investments.

SANsymphony V7.0 & Before
SANsymphony software is an open storage management software platform for larger enterprise systems and can manage an unlimited amount of storage while fundamentally improving the way enterprises manage, purchase and scale their storage infrastructure. SANsymphony elevates SAN management, control and automation from the, arduous and limiting, individual device and volume level to higher level constructs such as groupings, storage pools, regions, domains, and attributes such as high availability, channel paths that can be managed on a SAN-wide basis. SANsymphony can thin provision storage capacity, create storage domains, control Quality of Service (QoS), migrate data, accelerate storage performance (read and write caching), and create high-speed snapshots for fast disk-to-disk backup and recovery. SANsymphony also supports both fibre channel and iSCSI connectivity, Scalable N+1 high-availability configurations, advanced prioritized recovery and 'Hot Swap' Thin Provisioning storage pools.

SANmelody
A virtual storage area network (SAN) appliance is a software bundle that allows a storage manager to turn unused storage capacity on the network's virtual server into a SAN. A virtual SAN is most often a software application that is downloaded. SANmelody was storage virtualization software that was used to create a virtual SAN. SANmelody software was installed on a standard PC which provided a virtual storage appliance (VSA) at the fraction of the cost of a traditional storage device. This provided small businesses with the functionality, availability, and performance of a hardware SAN at a much lower cost. SANmelody was used for disaster recovery and provided the capability to stream data from one pair of SANmelody servers to another pair of SANmelody servers across the internet. It also provided expanded storage capacity and allowed for migration of data to new disks without disrupting applications that were running. DataCore Software will end support of SANmelody as of 31 Dec, 2012.