DataCore Software Corporation — 2 prefixes (MA-L)

DataCore Software Corporation is a privately held software-defined storage (SDS) vendor headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founded in February 1998 by George Teixeira and Ziya Aral. The IEEE registry holds two distinct MA-L (24-bit) blocks for the company under near-identical registrant strings: 00:30:D9 → "DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP." (Corporate Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, the older all-caps legal-entity style of earlier IEEE records) and 44:9F:7F → "DataCore Software Corporation" (6300 NW 5th Way, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309). Both point to the same city and ZIP, so they are almost certainly the same legal entity captured with two registry-string variants at two points in time, not separate business units — which is why consolidating them under one vendor entry is more useful than minting two near-identical per-prefix pages. The critical interpretation caveat is that DataCore is a software company and does not manufacture its own network hardware: SANsymphony (block storage / HCI), Swarm (object storage), and the HCI-Flex appliance line ship as a software stack pre-installed on partner- or OEM-built x86 server hardware (e.g. Unicom Global-assembled appliances, or servers from Dell, Lenovo, Supermicro). A device seen carrying one of these OUIs is therefore a storage-controller/server NIC on hardware DataCore assembled or badged, not a chip DataCore fabricated. One data-quality caution: DataCore's published CVEs — CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell, affecting the Swarm Gateway/Elasticsearch component; SANsymphony stated unaffected; fixed in Gateway 7.7.1-2 released 2021-12-16) and CVE-2021-4034 (Polkit "PwnKit," where Swarm Storage runtime images ship no polkit so no action was needed) — are application/software-layer issues, not an OUI/MAC-layer exploit, and should never be framed as a network-scannable hardware vulnerability tied to the prefix. IEEE publishes no OUI assignment date; any "date registered" on third-party lookup sites is a database artifact and is not recorded here.

IEEE assignment

2 prefixes → DataCore Software Corporation, Fort Lauderdale, FL, US [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

Registry / block size

both MA-L (24-bit OUI); no DataCore matches in the MA-M (the IEEE MA-M registry) or MA-S / OUI-36 (the IEEE MA-S registry) registries in this pass [Confirmed] — the IEEE MA-L registry, the IEEE MA-M registry, the IEEE MA-S registry

Verified prefixes (both MA-L)

00:30:D9 → "DATACORE SOFTWARE CORP." (Corporate Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, US; legacy all-caps registry string); 44:9F:7F → "DataCore Software Corporation" (6300 NW 5th Way, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, US) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L

HQ / country

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309, US (registry addresses differ by street but share city/ZIP) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L, https://www.datacore.com/

Company status

active; privately held, founded Feb 1998 by George Teixeira and Ziya Aral [Confirmed] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataCore

Device types

no first-party hardware — software-defined storage (SANsymphony, HCI-Flex) and Swarm object storage ship pre-installed on partner/OEM x86 server appliances; devices under these OUIs are storage-controller/server NICs, not a DataCore-built product line [Likely] — https://www.broadberry.com/storage-os/datacore-sansymphony, https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatacenter/definition/DataCore (rests on DataCore's own appliance-partner model; no independent in-the-wild device sighting beyond registry-derived MAC-lookup mirrors)

Notable products

SANsymphony (block/HCI storage), DataCore Swarm (object storage, GA Apr 2021), StarWind HCI (acquired May 2025), Puls8 (container-native persistent storage for Kubernetes, Jan 2026) [Confirmed] — https://www.datacore.com/products/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataCore

Registration date

Unknown — IEEE publishes NO assignment/registration date for OUI/MA-L records; third-party "date registered" values are scrape artifacts, not recorded here (no epoch placeholder) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (no date column)

IANA Reference

blank / not applicable — no IANA RFC reference exists for a vendor OUI record [Confirmed]

Security context (software layer, NOT OUI-related)

CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell) confirmed against Swarm Gateway/Elasticsearch (SANsymphony unaffected), fixed in Gateway 7.7.1-2 (2021-12-16, log4j → 2.16.0); CVE-2021-4034 (Polkit/PwnKit) — Swarm Storage runtime images ship no polkit, no action needed. Both are application/OS-package issues, not a MAC/hardware exploit [Confirmed] — https://datacore.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2201/~/advisory-:-apache-log4j-vulnerability-(cve-2021-44228), https://perifery.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/2914975745/CVE-2021-4034+(polkit+vulnerability)+Guidance+for+DataCore+Swarm

Related vendors

none identified (StarWind Software absorbed via May 2025 acquisition, not a separate OUI holder here)

Analyst note

two MA-L blocks, same Fort Lauderdale address, near-identical registrant strings — treat as one legal entity captured twice, not two business units. A DataCore OUI identifies a storage/HCI appliance DataCore assembled or badged; classify it as storage infrastructure, and describe DataCore as a software vendor whose OUIs appear on partner-built hardware, never as a hardware manufacturer.