Jan 30, 2017 obit datacore cofounder and chairman ziya aral has passed away, aged just 64 he cofounded datacore with ceo george teixeira in february 1998 after a 20 year career in the software industry. Obit datacore cofounder and chairman ziya aral has passed away, aged just 64 he cofounded datacore with ceo george teixeira in february 1998 after a. Searchstorage recently caught up with datacore s aral to discuss storage trends in software and hardware. Sds a fancy way to say virtualization, says datacore software. Dear nancy and aral family, my thoughts and prayers go out to you. Datacore software corporate park 6300 nw 5th way ft.
Jan 29, 2016 datacore software is the first to revisit these concepts, which cofounder and chairman of the board ziya aral helped to pioneer in the 1980s. Hyperconvergence is made possible by multicore cpus, and yet one process remains single threaded storage. Apr 03, 2017 the late ziya aral, former chairman and chief scientist for datacore software who passed away earlier this year, certainly sought to make his company prosperous with the technology he built. Curtis preston of truth in it, george teixeira and ziya aral of datacore software, as they discuss the hype of hyperconvergence. Apr 28, 2008 when insight and updata approached us, it was clear that they already understood that datacore has become the storage virtualization and san management solution of choice in the server and desktop virtualization space, said ziya aral, chairman and cto, datacore software. Hollis comments are odd coming from a company which has spent so much effort on inmemory databases. Sansymphony is a software tool that provides most of the features and functions of proprietary disk controllers, he says. Teixeira, ziya aral, john bocskor, and roni putra, datacore software corporation is based in fort lauderdale, florida.
We are glad to have these two excellent firms as part of the team. Datacore, also known as datacore software, is a fort lauderdale, florida based developer of software defined storage. Datacore software is a vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management and storage networking. In episode 248, douglas brown interviews ziya aral, chairman, cofounder at datacore software. Jan 12, 2016 datacore parallel io software shatters the world record in priceperformance for storage and hyperconverged systems. Datacore software teixeira and aral spent many hours with their score mentors rehearsing and polishing a presentation for bankers and venture capitalists. Our vision is that storage control becomes a total software paradigm. Datacore was founded in fort lauderdale in february 1998 by george teixeira and ziya aral, coworkers at parallel computing company encore computer. Lauderdale, flbased storage virtualization software vendor, datacore software, offers an analysis of server and storage virtualization that blows the socks off of the marketspeak one usually hears or reads from industry analysts and vendors. Browse through these score mentoring success stories to learn more about the small businesses weve helped. Its a lot like being the frontrunner in the monaco grand prix with a 100 milepergallon family sedan, quips ziya aral, datacore s chairman and cto. When technology pioneers george teixeira and ziya aral invented storageoperating software would result in storage servers with onethird the cost and three times the performance of current hardware systems, they knew they would have to move quickly to meet market demand.
Our software and our technology will become prevalent and become part of operating systems and different software approaches in the marketplace. Datacore software chairman and founder ziya aral is a keen observer of the storage industry and where flash, hyperconverged and softwaredefined storage initiatives will take it. The premise behind the company was to allow network operators to purchase commodity disk drives, external storage arrays or san disk drive arrays, and treat them all as virtual disks of networked, blockaccess storage. When technology pioneers george teixeira and ziya aral invented storageoperating software would result in storage servers with onethird the cost and three times the performance of current hardware datacore software thrives with help from score. Ziya is the chairman of datacore software who experienced the. Datacore australia anz storage virtualization info site. Jan 23, 2017 dear nancy and aral family, my thoughts and prayers go out to you. Datacore ceo george teixeira left and chairman ziya aral right founding and funding the datacore story starts with massachusettsbased encore computer corporation, a. The company provides storage virtualization software that is used to manage and automate storage administration, encompassing functions such as resource pooling, provisioning, and replication.
Datacore software is a software defined storage sds software company based in fort lauderdale, florida. Obituary ziya ali aral horizon funeral and cremation. In this searchstorage interview with executive editor ellen obrien, datacore software corp. When insight and updata approached us, it was clear that they already understood that datacore has become the storage virtualization and san management solution of choice in the server and desktop virtualization space, said ziya aral, chairman and cto, datacore software. The numbers from datacore are impressive, and more importantly, they now can be easily compared relative to other vendor submissions, says randy kerns, senior partner at the evaluator group. Ziya was a remarkable human being, i used to say to myself that he had the brain of einstein, a heart of gold and a spirit of a child. Datacore software, a provider of softwaredefined storage and adaptive, parallel io software, announces the launch of its hyperconverged less is more architecture. Datacore software chairman wins innovator of the year at best. Sds a fancy way to say virtualization, says datacore. Datacore parallel io software shatters the world record. Founded in 1998, the privatelyheld firm operates global sales, support and service from headquarters in ft. Over the last year, ziya shifted his full focus onto research and development but, even while he was ill, he continued to work with the software engineering teams to lay out the companys development plans and put in.
Datacore software corporation develops storage virtualization, data management, and networking software. Oct 24, 2012 datacore ceo george teixeira left and chairman ziya aral right founding and funding the datacore story starts with massachusettsbased encore computer corporation, a pioneer of parallel. Oct 29, 20 datacore software chairman ziya aral, a founder of the company specializing in storage virtualization software, defines software defined storage in its simplest terms, as a way of breaking the hardware layer from the software. Ziya aral, chairman on datacore softwares take on softwaredefined storage. Brandpost sponsored by hpe itaas 101 for enterprise leaders. Datacore software is a softwaredefined storage sds software company based in fort lauderdale, florida. Searchstorage recently caught up with datacores aral to discuss storage trends. Ziya and douglas discuss datacores new parallel io technology. At the age of 6, he immigrated to the united states. Benchmarking a scalable and highly available architecture for. Can a onetrick software firm survive in era of converged. He also designed the first high availability unixbased intelligent storage controller in the industry, and his development team pioneered storage virtualization and diskbased datasharing and provisioning technology. Apr 20, 2020 aral cofounded datacore in 1998 after a 20 year career in the software industry, including serving as chief technology officer vice president of engineering at encore computer corporation.
Datacore parallel io software shatters the world record in. Jun 26, 2016 ziya aral, datacore s chairman, has a different view, which we present in at length as we reckon it is important to understand his, as well as datacore s, point of view. Feb 02, 2017 ziya ali aral was born in eskisehir, turkey, in october, 1952, to imadettin and umman aral. Datacore software delivers the industrys most flexible, intelligent, and powerful softwaredefined storage solutions for block, file and object storage, helping more than 10,000 customers worldwide modernize how they store, protect, and access data the companys comprehensive product suite, intellectual property portfolio, and its unrivaled experience in storage virtualization and. Oct 31, 2006 datacore disaster recovery software dials back the clock. The company has found a way to take a userdesignated portion of the logical cores available on a server and to allocate them specifically for storage io handling. Datacore software visualizes all kinds of manageable storage. Datacore software corporation 010512 20120005452 application performance acceleration. The company began as datacore software on february 4, 1998 and worked on building a storage virtualization software to manage and control storage resources and insulate users and applications from storagerelated disruptions. Datacore software chairman lauds emcs vipr strategy. Datacore launches a hyperconverged system with parallel io. Datacore disaster recovery software dials back the clock. Nov 19, 2015 beyond the hype of hyperconvergence hyperconvergence is made possible by multicore cpus, and yet one process remains single threaded storage.
Going forward, ziya aral, datacore softwares chairman of the board and cto, sees storage networking breaking down into approximately 75% san and 25% nas, and doubts theyll merge because they serve different purposes in the enterprise. Datacore launches a hyperconverged system with parallel i. Datacore software delivers the industrys most flexible, intelligent, and powerful softwaredefined storage solutions for block, file and object storage, helping more than 10,000 customers worldwide modernize how they store, protect, and access data. Ziya ali aral was born in eskisehir, turkey, in october, 1952, to imadettin and umman aral. Datacore software uk software defined storage and storage. Obit datacore cofounder and chairman ziya aral has passed away, aged just 64 he cofounded datacore with ceo george teixeira in february 1998 after a 20 year career in the software industry. Oct 29, 20 sds a fancy way to say virtualization, says datacore software chairman datacores ziya aral talks about how storage buyers get in trouble, and why its hard to distinguish between the new sds and the old virtualization. Datacore software, a provider of software defined storage and adaptive, parallel io software, announces the launch of its hyperconverged less is more architecture. Datacore parallel io software shatters the world record in priceperformance for storage and hyperconverged systems. Ziya aral, datacore software, interview about the future of desktop virtualization. Like everything else in the industry, storage is going to commodity hardware, aral says.
Datacore software chairman wins innovator of the year at. The company is a pioneer in the development of san virtualization technology. Datacore software delivers the industrys most flexible, intelligent, and powerful software defined storage solutions for block, file and object storage, helping more than 10,000 customers worldwide modernize how they store, protect, and access data the companys comprehensive product suite, intellectual property portfolio, and its unrivaled experience in storage virtualization and. Aral has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. Systemax, datacore partnership creates new storage server. But he also wanted to accomplish something more meaningful, something he called computer science. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the united states patent and trademark office uspto. Patents assigned to datacore software corporation justia. He also designed the first high availability unixbased intelligent storage controller in the industry, and his development team pioneered storage. Jul 23, 2015 datacore software chairman and founder ziya aral is a keen observer of the storage industry and where flash, hyperconverged and software defined storage initiatives will take it. Hence hp and emcs visions of using nas heads providing file services with backend sans makes a lot of sense. Datacore software is a leading independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking.
Datacore software corporation company profile fort. Cofounder and chairman of datacore ziya aral passed away. It really is a perfect storm, says, ziya aral, chairman, datacore. Ziya aral active fort lauderdale, fl for datacore software corporation 9543776000. Aral claims his company has been doing this for years, long before software defined storage became such a widely used. On the web site of datacore software, we learned that companys cofounder and chairman since february 1998, ziya aral, born in 1952, passed away you can also read that.
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