DataCore Software

08/27/2026

Why do some systems become harder to manage as they scale? The problem is often architectural.

Traditional scale-out designs can introduce bottlenecks around metadata, controller nodes, rebalancing, and coordination. As more nodes are added, complexity can increase instead of performance.

takes a different approach. Its distributed architecture removes fixed controller roles, stores metadata with the object itself, and allows every node to participate in handling requests, background operations, repair, and rebalancing.

That means adding a node doesn’t just add capacity — it also adds processing power, throughput, and resilience. This architectural model is especially valuable in high-throughput environments such as backup, media, medical imaging, surveillance, and active archives.

👉 Learn more: https://www.datacore.com/blog/inside-the-architecture-of-truly-scalable-object-storage/

08/10/2026

Storage used to sit quietly in the background of the compliance conversation. Not anymore.

As regulatory requirements around cyber resilience, recovery, and accountability increase, organizations are being asked to demonstrate more than simply having security tools and backups in place.

The questions are becoming much more specific:
🔐 Can you prove your critical data is recoverable?
🛡️ Can you trust that your recovery points haven’t been compromised?
🔎 Can you show who changed what and when?

Having backups is only part of the answer. Organizations need recovery data they can trust, verifiable data integrity, and a clear audit trail of actions affecting critical systems.

Because when an audit or cyber incident happens, “we have backups” is not the same as “we can prove we can recover.”

Storage is where the data lives. Now it’s also where compliance evidence lives.

Learn more: https://www.datacore.com/blog/why-storage-is-now-a-top-compliance-priority/

07/29/2026

Hardware shortages, extended lead times, and cost volatility continue to challenge IT teams.

Before investing in new hardware, it's worth asking a simple question: Are you getting the most from what you already have?

From improving utilization to extending infrastructure life, there are practical ways to reduce the impact of hardware delays and rising costs.

Discover practical ways to delay your next hardware refresh: https://www.datacore.com/blog/how-to-reduce-the-impact-of-storage-hardware-delays/

07/15/2026

We're excited to announce the general availability of DataCore Swarm 18.0, our latest major release, built to deliver a stronger foundation for modern object storage.

18.0 brings meaningful architectural advancements that translate into real customer value:

➡️ Faster, more efficient storage operations
➡️ A smaller infrastructure footprint to help reduce costs
➡️ Enhanced support for Veeam backup environments
➡️ Improved performance, scalability, and resilience for enterprise workloads

As organizations continue to protect growing volumes of data, Swarm 18.0 makes it easier to build secure, immutable object storage that is optimized for backup, cyber resilience, and long-term data retention.

Learn more about what's new in DataCore Swarm 18.0 and how it can help simplify your storage infrastructure: https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/public/pages/5269684290/Swarm+18.0.0+Release+Notes

Explore the benefits and features of Swarm: https://www.datacore.com/products/swarm-object-storage/

07/14/2026

We're excited to announce the General Availability of DataCore Puls8 v4.5.

As organizations run more mission-critical workloads on Kubernetes, v4.5 delivers the resilience, operational simplicity, and scalability needed to keep modern applications running reliably. This release helps customers strengthen resilience and recovery, simplify day-to-day storage operations, improve infrastructure efficiency, and support evolving Kubernetes environments.

Try Puls8 v4.5 and take advantage of the latest innovations in enterprise Kubernetes storage.

Release Notes: https://docs.datacore.com/Puls8/Puls8-WebHelp/Release_Notes.htm

Learn more about Puls8: https://www.datacore.com/products/puls8/

Start a 30-day free trial: https://www.datacore.com/products/puls8/ -it-now

07/01/2026

made infrastructure faster and more self-service. But storage often still feels manual, unclear, and ticket-driven.

changes that by turning storage into a governed, automated, developer-friendly service — not another blocker.

Find out how teams can move beyond basic PVCs and make storage part of the developer experience: https://www.datacore.com/blog/kubernetes-persistent-storage-developer-experience/

Learn why Kubernetes persistent storage is now a developer experience challenge and how container-native storage helps platform teams solve it.

06/21/2026

🤝 DataCore and Vates announce expanded storage compatibility for Vates VMS 🤝

We’re pleased to announce a technical and strategic partnership between Vates Virtualization Management Stack and DataCore Software, focused on giving Vates VMS users more flexibility, interoperability, and freedom of choice in their infrastructure.

Through this collaboration, now benefits from expanded compatibility with DataCore’s software-defined storage portfolio, including SANsymphony and StarWind VirtualSAN.

✅ XCP-ng has been validated and certified with , giving organizations greater confidence when building flexible, cost-effective virtualization environments.

✅ also integrates seamlessly with through open industry standards such as iSCSI and Fibre Channel, with no hypervisor modifications required.

This partnership helps customers modernize their infrastructure while keeping deployments simple, reliable, and production-ready.

Together, Vates and DataCore are working toward validated architectures, clear support paths, and future solution guides through the upcoming Vates Alliance Network. A strong step forward for open virtualization, software-defined storage, and infrastructure freedom.

👉 Learn more: https://vates.tech/blog/p/57c95c05-10da-48e8-9cc8-cf2c53655bfc/

06/18/2026

DataCore Software will be at ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg 🇩🇪, June 22–26.

If you’re attending, stop by Booth M18. We’d love to connect and show how our solution, , helps HPC and AI teams accelerate workloads, simplify data movement, and unify access across scratch, home, archive, and cloud tiers.

Come meet the team, see Nexus in action, and discuss what’s next for high-performance data infrastructure. See you at ISC.

Learn more about Nexus: https://www.datacore.com/products/nexus/

06/15/2026

🚨 Infrastructure teams are under pressure to strengthen cyber resilience, support compliance requirements, keep systems available, and modernize storage, often without the budget or time for a full hardware refresh.

📅 Join our upcoming webinar on June 18th to discover what’s new in 's latest release, version 10.0 PSP21, which includes immutable snapshots, NVMe-oF support, Proxmox VE support, and more.

💡 Learn how the latest SANsymphony release helps organizations lower TCO, expand infrastructure choice, and simplify operations across modern virtualized environments.

👉 Register now: https://info.datacore.com/events/software-defined-storage-vmware-alternatives

06/12/2026

Keep the Storage. Lose the Bottleneck.

Many teams already own plenty of storage. The problem is that it was bought for capacity, not for the speed demanded by , simulation, analytics, and other compute-heavy workloads.

Replacing it means writing off a major investment. offers a different path: keep existing NAS, object, cloud, or archive storage in place, while adding a high-performance layer for active workloads and a single namespace that lets teams work across it all.

Your existing storage stays in the workflow. helps make it part of a faster environment, within a single namespace. Learn more: https://www.datacore.com/products/nexus/