Storage Virtualization SuperCast for Virtualization Review by Jon Toigo

http://www.drunkendata.com/?p=3233
"...DataCore uses a proxy Windows server to connect to the arrays, saving themselves the trouble of having to bake in special access to the APIs of each and every vendor. They have created a great kit (which I have used) and it promises to get even better with the release late this year or early next of SANsymphony V. (We have tested V in our labs and are writing a First Look paper on it that I may publish in Virtualization Review.)


...“if not on the array controller, where will you host all of that value-add software that most hardware vendors prefer to join to their rigs?” — he worried that I may be pursuing a deconstructionalist model that no one wants. In response, I just look at DataCore. They can do the thin provisioning and replication off box, while contributing significant performance improvements to the hardware beneath.