DataCore - IT Press Tour #69 September 2026

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1. IT PRESS TOUR • 69TH EDITION Freedom to choose. Intelligence to operate. SAID BOUKHIZOU • VP OF PRODUCTS LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA • SEPTEMBER 1–2, 2026 EVENT HOTEL uHotel Ljubljana Miklošičeva cesta 3 • 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 01
2. TODAY’S CONVERSATION A strategic journey from freedom to autonomous operations 55 minutes of narrative, followed by 25 minutes of discussion and an optional demo. ACT I Why freedom still matters ACT II How acquisitions expanded our capabilities ACT III From integration to one platform ACT IV Agentic AI storage operations DISCUSSION Your questions, our roadmap, the hard trade-offs © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 03
3. WHY DATACORE EXISTS Give customers and partners FREEDOM From infrastructure constraints From platform barriers From data lock-in To choose the technology stack on their terms © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 04
4. FREEDOM, MADE CONCRETE HARDWARE DATA Choose and mix servers Control & protect data One open core. Four freedoms. FREEDOM BY DESIGN HYPERVISOR DEPLOYMENT Switch platforms freely Core • edge • cloud No lock-in. No forced reset. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 05
5. FREEDOM UNDER PRESSURE When servers are scarce, choice becomes operational resilience Software-defined infrastructure lets customers adapt procurement without redesigning their data services. USE WHAT YOU CAN SOURCE. KEEP WHAT STILL WORKS. CHOOSE REUSE Any qualified x86 server Existing servers already in the rack MIX REFURBISH Brands, models and generations Validated refurbished systems Hardware availability becomes an input, not a dependency trap. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 06
6. FREEDOM AFTER BROADCOM Change the hypervisor. Keep the data strategy. Independent data services preserve resilience and operational continuity while the virtualization layer evolves. INDEPENDENT DATA SERVICES Choice today. Optionality tomorrow. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 07
7. THE MARKET SHIFT The data center is no longer the center of data Core, edge, cloud-native and AI workloads now require different data behaviors. PLURALITY Freedom became more important, and harder to operate. Different performance. Different economics. Different resilience and operating models. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 08
8. FOUR SIMULTANEOUS FORCES Infrastructure strategy is being rewritten on four fronts AI + HPC CYBER RESILIENCE COMPLIANCE DISTRIBUTED IT Data movement becomes the bottleneck. Recovery becomes part of primary design. Evidence and control become operational requirements. Edge operations cannot assume local expertise. The portfolio had to expand before the operating experience could converge. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 09
9. CYBER RESILIENCE + COMPLIANCE Regulators increasingly ask for evidence, not architecture diagrams Data infrastructure helps customers demonstrate that critical data is protected, recoverable and governed. CAN YOU PROVE IT? Recoverability must be tested. Recovery points must be trustworthy. Controls must leave an audit trail. TWO COSTS OF FAILURE Operational disruption + regulatory penalties and fines NIS2 Risk management • continuity • backup • recovery DORA Operational resilience • testing • segregated recovery CYBER RESILIENCE ACT Secure-by-design • vulnerability handling • lifecycle EVIDENCE LAYER Immutability • integrity • retention • audit logs DataCore supports the control environment; compliance remains an organizational responsibility. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 10
10. 2021–2025 • CAPABILITY EXPANSION Acquisitions expanded the capabilities required for the platform vision Six specialist technologies. One converging operating model. UNIFIED PLATFORM 2025 STARWIND 2025 Edge HCI ARCASTREAM 2025 AI / HPC file PIXITMEDIA 2023 Orchestration OBJECT MATRIX 2021 Media archive MAYADATA 2021 Kubernetes CARINGO Object © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 11
11. ACQUISITION WAS ONLY PHASE ONE A broad portfolio creates potential, not a platform The value appears when technology, people, support and workflows begin to work together. BREADTH ≠ UNITY What we acquired What customers need Deep specialist technologies One coherent operating experience © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 12
12. PHASE TWO, INTEGRATION We connected the foundations before unifying the experience Integration spans more than code: engineering, support, channel, lifecycle and shared services. PEOPLE GO-TO-MARKET Shared product and engineering direction Common customer and partner engagement TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS APIs, identity, telemetry and interoperability Support, lifecycle and quality practices © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 13
13. THE TRANSFORMATION Acquire. Integrate. Unify. Autonomize. The next value curve comes from making the portfolio behave as one system. 01 02 03 04 ACQUIRE INTEGRATE UNIFY AUTONOMIZE Add differentiated capabilities Connect teams and foundations Create one platform experience Use agentic operations to reduce complexity © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 14
14. THE NEXT CHAPTER One data infrastructure platform Unified across block, file, object, containers and HCI, powered by Agentic AI Storage Operations. ONE EXPERIENCE AGENTIC AI Identity • telemetry • policy • automation • support Observe the estate. Reason across domains. Recommend and act with guardrails. Unification reduces operational friction without reducing infrastructure choice. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 15
15. WHAT AGENTIC OPERATIONS MEANS From dashboards that describe problems to systems that help resolve them Human policy and approval remain the control plane. OBSERVE Correlate telemetry, topology and workload context REASON Identify risk, intent and cross-domain dependencies RECOMMEND Propose the safest, highest-value action ACT Execute approved workflows and verify outcomes GUARDRAILS: policy • approvals • auditability • rollback • explainability © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 16
16. WHERE AGENTIC OPERATIONS CREATES VALUE Start with frequent decisions and costly failure modes CAPACITY Predict pressure and orchestrate placement PERFORMANCE Detect bottlenecks and recommend remediation CYBER RESILIENCE Verify protection posture and recovery readiness COMPLIANCE Monitor controls, evidence and policy exceptions LIFECYCLE Upgrade, migrate and move data by value, policy and cost SUPPORT Accelerate diagnosis with estate-wide context © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 17
17. FREEDOM AND UNIFICATION ARE NOT OPPOSITES We unify operations, not customer choices The platform should absorb heterogeneity rather than demand its removal. FREEDOM UNIFICATION Choose hardware, data type, hypervisor and deployment model. Operate policy, telemetry, automation and support through one experience. © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 18
18. ONE PLATFORM, FOUR STRATEGIC CONVERSATIONS The products become evidence behind a broader operating model RESILIENCE EDGE Availability + recoverability Enterprise outcomes without local specialists CLOUD NATIVE AI + HPC Persistent data in declarative workflows Performance + orchestration at data scale © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 19
19. THE PORTFOLIO IS THE EVIDENCE Different engines. One direction. SANsymphony Resilient block services across mixed infrastructure StarWind Compact HCI for edge, ROBO and SMB Swarm Cyber-resilient S3 storage and active archive Nexus Parallel file performance and data orchestration Puls8 Persistent, container-native Kubernetes storage © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 20
20. THE OUTCOME WE ARE DESIGNING FOR Less operational friction. More infrastructure freedom. CHOOSE Adopt the right technology without a new dependency trap OPERATE See and govern the data estate through one experience OPTIMIZE Match performance, resilience and cost to workload value EVOLVE Change infrastructure without rewriting operations © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 21
21. CUSTOMER PROOF Freedom and unification at industrial scale ArcelorMittal Méditerranée combines SANsymphony and Swarm to modernize critical production data at Fos-sur-Mer. 3–4× 30–40% higher overall performance expected operating-cost savings 250 TB ~30 target capacity by end-2026 DataCore clusters planned © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 22
22. IT PRESS TOUR • LJUBLJANA Thank you Freedom to choose. Intelligence to operate. Thank you, Philippe Nicolas, and thank you to every journalist here for your time, curiosity and questions. SAID BOUKHIZOU • VP OF PRODUCT EUROSTARS uHOTEL LJUBLJANA
23. OPEN DISCUSSION Where should we go deeper? Freedom versus platform unification Integration lessons after acquisitions Agentic operations and human control AI infrastructure and data movement ArcelorMittal and other customer proof Appendix slides available for technical follow-up © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 23
24. APPENDIX, ACQUISITIONS Verified capability expansion JAN 2021 Caringo, object NOV 2021 MayaData, Kubernetes JAN 2023 Object Matrix, media edge FEB 2025 Pixitmedia + Arcastream, file/orchestration MAY 2025 StarWind, HCI/edge © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 24
25. APPENDIX, ARCHITECTURE Potential platform foundations IDENTITY Users, tenants and permissions TELEMETRY Shared inventory, health and events POLICY Intent, protection and placement AUTOMATION Cross-product workflows AI OPERATIONS Reasoning, recommendations and governed actions © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 25
26. APPENDIX, GUARDRAILS Trust must be designed in EXPLAIN Show evidence and reasoning APPROVE Human-defined authority levels AUDIT Record decisions and actions ROLL BACK Recover from unintended outcomes ISOLATE Respect tenant and security boundaries © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 26
27. APPENDIX, FOLLOW-UP Interview and demo paths STRATEGY Acquisition, integration and unification ARCHITECTURE Platform foundations and interoperability AI OPS Agentic workflow concept and guardrails PRODUCT Workload-specific deep dives PROOF Demos, benchmarks and references where approved © 2026 DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP. • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 27