DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualisation, business continuity and disaster recovery software services, has stretched the size of its virtual disks from 2 terabytes (TBs) to 1 petabyte (PB).
With this release, DataCore storage virtualisation nodes can control pools consisting of RAID sets, each over the previous 2TB maximum, the company said.
Augie Gonzalez, director of product marketing at DataCore Software, said: “Rather than inch up to 4 or 16 TBs as others are considering, DataCore made the strategic design choice to blow the roof off the capacity ceiling with 1 Petabyte LUNs.
“But we’re still frugal on the back-end, using thin-provisioning to minimise how much real capacity has to be in place day one. Performance wise, these immense virtual disks benefit from DataCore’s 1TB per node, 64-bit mega-caches. You can be big, and very fast too.”
The new software release is available immediately. DataCore customers under current maintenance contracts are eligible to receive the 1PB software enhancements at no charge.
