Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) is upgrading its mission-critical IT infrastructure with DataCore’s software-defined storage offering SANsymphony-V.

The MEF said it will be using the software-defined storage solution to marry up its existing and diverse set of storage investments made over the years- including EMC VMax, EMC Centera to HP EVAs.

It will also use SANsymphony-V to transform its storage into an enterprise-wide resource that can be pooled and used more efficiently.

The MEF said by making storage software defined it will be able to  streamline and centralize management in order to gain productivity and to provision highly available storage capacity when and where needed within minutes.

DataCore said its software optimizes overall utilization and makes storage provisioning dynamic and automatic.

DataCore’s technology partner SpeedyCrew deployed the DataCore SAN symphony-V on four standard x86 server platforms, providing redundancy and data protection with centralized management over 200TB of storage across MEF’s existing storage systems.

DataCore said MEF will benefit from the addition of high-end advanced storage features including thin provisioning, metro-wide mirroring, high speed adaptive caching, replication, auto-tiering, all of which can be applied their existing and future storage investments.

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