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Cartooniac24 (talk | contribs) I'm Vinod Mohan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager from DataCore (www.linkedin.com/in/vinod-mohan). Our company page only covered company updates until April 2018. Since then, the company has had many significant updates from acquisitions to new product releases. To keep our company info factual and correct, I've updated some portions of this page (after getting approval from our management) and provided citations wherever applied. Please review & approve. Let me know if there are any questions. |
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In 2016, the company's SANsymphony-V software was reported to have set new price performance records based on testing done by Redwood City, California-based non-profit testing company Storage Performance Council using their SPC-1 storage performance benchmark.<ref name=register2/> The results led to complaints from multiple vendors, who claimed that storing all the "test" data in [[Cache (computing)|cache]] made the results unfair.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/23/are_datacores_spc_benchmarks_unfair/ |title=Are DataCore's SPC benchmarks unfair?|website=longroom.com |date=2016-06-23 |accessdate=2018-04-12}}</ref> One of the three SPC-1 benchmark results was later withdrawn.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/24/spc_says_up_yours_datacore/ |title=SPC says up yours to DataCore|website=theregister.co.uk |date=2016-06-24 |accessdate=2017-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_withdrawn |title=Withdrawn SPC-1 and SPC-1/E Results |website=storageperformance.org |date=2016-06-16 |accessdate=2017-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106000457/http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_withdrawn# |archive-date=2018-01-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In March 2017, the company partnered with technology company [[Lenovo]] to develop its data center business by integrating DataCore's SANsymphony software defined storage with Lenovo's servers. This was reportedly to compete with companies like [[Nutanix]] and SimpliVity (now part of [[Hewlett Packard Enterprise]] (HPE)) that were shipping whole hyper-converged stacks rather than just a software-defined storage component.<ref name=crn1>{{cite web|url=http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300084215/partners-cheer-lenovos-datacore-deal-ponder-its-long-term-storage-strategy.htm |title=Partners Cheer Lenovo's DataCore Deal, Ponder Its Long-Term Storage Strategy |website=CRN.com |date=2017-03-16 |accessdate=2017-10-27}}</ref> In September 2017, in an attempt to compete with the [[in-memory database]] features of [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]], the company released its MaxParallel driver, which uses parallel I/O technology to accelerate database-related processing such as with SQL Server databases.<ref name=register1>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/26/datacore_drives_sql_server_to_silly_speeds/ |title=DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds|website=theregister.co.uk |date=2017-09-26 |accessdate=2017-10-26}}</ref> This product has been discontinued in August 2018.<ref name=maxparallel1>{{cite web|url=https://maxparallel.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1692/~/maxparallel-end-of-life-notice |title=MaxParallel End-of-Life Notice|website=maxparallel.com |date=2019-05-06 |accessdate=2019-05-06}}</ref>
In April 2018 DataCore announced that Dave Zabrowski, previously CEO of cloud-based financial services company [[Cloud Cruiser]], was its new CEO, and former CEO George Teixeira was named Executive Chairman.<ref name=pehub2>{{cite web|url=https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/datacore-software-appoints-ceo-cmo/|title=DataCore Software appoints CEO and CMO|website=pehub.com |date=2018-04-05 |accessdate=2018-04-05}}</ref>
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In February 2020, DataCore, together with AME Cloud Ventures and Insight Partners, invested $26 million in Palo Alto-based MayaData.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kovar|first=Joseph F.|date=2020-02-04|title=Container Storage Developer MayaData Gets $26M Infusion From DataCore, Others|url=https://www.crn.com/news/storage/container-storage-developer-mayadata-gets-26m-infusion-from-datacore-others|access-date=2022-02-13|website=CRN}}</ref> In the same month, DataCore launched a global research and development center in Bangalore, India.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Agarwal|first=Surabhi|title=DataCore launches R&D center in India; largest after Florida|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/datacore-launches-rd-center-in-india-largest-after-florida/articleshow/74390400.cms|access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref>
In January 2021, DataCore acquired Caringo, Inc., enabling the company to offer a complete storage solution portfolio
==Products/technology==
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* SANsymphony – Virtualizes [[Block (data storage)|block storage]] across a range of storage devices ([[Storage area network|SAN]] and [[Hyper-converged infrastructure|HCI]]) and provides uniform data services across all of them.<ref name="zdnet1" />
* vFilO – Simplifies shared access, control, and protection of [[distributed file systems]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=DataCore adds file and S3 object storage with vFilO|url=https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252474099/DataCore-adds-file-and-S3-object-storage-with-vFilO|access-date=2022-02-13|website=ComputerWeekly.com|language=en}}</ref>
* Swarm – On-premises [[object storage]] platform that simplifies data access, delivery, and
==References==
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