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MUNICH, Germany and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., June 9 /PRNewswire/ — DataCore Software, the leading provider of storage virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced that the chief finance office in Koblenz, which oversees 26 revenue offices in the federal state of Rheinland-Pfalz, depends on storage virtualization from DataCore Software. DataCore partner SHE Informationstechnologie AG replaced the existing storage area network (SAN) with Dell hardware and SANsymphony(TM) storage virtualization software from DataCore.

Destined to unify and simplify financial administration in Germany, German fiscal authorities have introduced a uniform IT platform for their 650 revenue offices around the country – standardizing on EOSS (Evolutionary Oriented Tax Software). The SANsymphony implementation at the main revenue office in Koblenz was part of the EOSS project. A rollout of this size will take until 2012 to complete and is expected to cost federal government hundreds of millions of Euros.

In the past, each upgrade of the EMC Symetrix DMX 1000 disk subsystem required significant budget and had to be accompanied by an official, open “call to tender.” Over time, the SAN system had grown to 16 terabytes, which represented the final stage of expansion. The required next phase of storage expansion needed not only offer additional capacity for the migration of EOSS, but also provide SAN virtualization and hardware independency. Plus, the team faced a short implementation window – the entire project needed to be concluded within three months.

IT service provider SHE Informationstechnologie AG, a DataCore partner, was awarded the contract for its virtualization proposal. In the first stage of expansion, four Dell MD1000 systems with 15 SAS hard disks apiece and a net capacity of 10 terabytes (TBs) was implemented. DataCore’s SANsymphony 6.0 runs on two Dell R900 storage domain controllers. The hardware is located in two data centers and redundantly connected via Fibre Channel. Surprisingly, the combined costs for both hardware and software for the project came below the budget threshold and so did not cause the necessity for an official call to tender to be released – dramatically decreasing the project time frames.

It’s always good to see how organizations are using technologies, what barriers to success they are having and how they have resolved them, this article is talking about DataCore providing assistance to this organization is using their software as part of a virtualization and disaster recovery platform, I’m off to read up more.

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