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Friday, 18 February 2011 |
StarWind Software Release an Update to their iSCSI SAN Software with an Advanced Management GUI and Data Deduplication
The latest StarWind iSCSI SAN Software release, version 5.6,
provides new interface features to simplify time intensive storage
management tasks and includes an experimental Data Deduplication option.
Burlington, Mass. – February 11, 2011 - StarWind Software,
a global leader in storage virtualization and a pioneer in iSCSI
storage, today announced the release of StarWind 5.6, iSCSI SAN software
which turns any industry-standard Microsoft Windows server into a
highly available fail-safe, fault-tolerant SAN. StarWind iSCSI SAN
protects data with redundancy across two storage nodes in HA (High
Availability) mode.
The latest software release includes many enhancements to the user
interface, improving overall ease-of use when deploying, provisioning or
managing the StarWind iSCSI SAN software. The management applications
GUI has been re-focused to provide a far simpler approach and additional
clarity to the user experience. The StarWind event log monitors the
state of the iSCSI SAN. Advanced event notification provides alerts by
e-mail, records to the Microsoft Windows Event Log and to text files.
Data deduplication is included as an experimental module, allowing
reduced disk requirements as only unique blocks of data are stored to
disk. StarWind’s Data Deduplication is implemented as an inline process –
since StarWind iSCSI SAN software runs on industry standard commodity
servers it’s easy and cost effective to provide enough processing power
in the SAN hardware to allow inline deduplication to perform well, and
reducing the disk space oversizing required with post process
deduplication.
"This update to our user interface provides significant value, since
the GUI is the command and control center of any application or
appliance. Our Product Managers and Developers were tasked to deliver on
customers' expectations, by improving Wizards and the overall layout to
ensure key storage administration tasks can be completed with fewer
mouse clicks. StarWind has always been the leader in iSCSI SAN
affordability and reliability, and now we’ve hardened and matured the
user interface to make sure the products strengths are easily and
conveniently accessible," said StarWind's CEO Artem Berman. "We're
committed to moving StarWind to the next level, from our roots dating
back to 2003 as an engineering focused, R&D shop, to today with a
customer centric product, where ease of use is just as critical as
performance, scalability and uptime."
"Data deduplication is the holy-grail of storage, customers can
achieve an amazing reduction in the number of physical disks required,
depending on the nature of the data stored in a dedupe repository may
see anywhere from a 10 to 40 times reduction in disk space, and in some
cases such as with virtual machines as much as 100 times savings on disk
space," added Roman Shovkun, Chief Sales Officer of StarWind Software. "With
the spiraling growth of data and the need to retain data for longer
periods for compliancy with industry regulations, data deduplication
will help constrain storage costs and permit companies to search digital
repositories instead of resorting to paper or tape archives which are
error prone and extremely time consuming to collect data from."
StarWind iSCSI SAN is available in single or dual node configurations,
with a variety of advanced storage management features including
snapshots, thin provisioning and replication. Since StarWind software
runs on any server capable of running a Microsoft Windows Server OS,
StarWind allows unprecedented flexibility when implementing SAN storage,
removing vendor lock in at the hardware layer, while providing far
better performance and storage management capabilities than dedicated
iSCSI SAN appliances.
About StarWind Software Inc.
StarWind Software is a global leader in storage management and SAN
software for small and midsize organizations. StarWind's flagship
product is SAN software that turns any industry-standard Windows Server
into a fault-tolerant, fail-safe iSCSI SAN. StarWind iSCSI SAN is
qualified for use with VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer and Linux and Unix
environments. StarWind Software is focused on providing small and
midsize organizations with affordable, highly availability storage
technology which previously was only available in high-end storage
hardware. Advanced enterprise-class features in StarWind include
Automated HA Storage Node Failover and Failback (High Availability),
Replication across a WAN, Snapshots, Thin Provisioning and Virtual Tape
management.
Since 2003 StarWind has pioneered the iSCSI SAN software industry and is
the solution of choice for over 30,000 customers worldwide in over 100
countries, from small and midsize companies to governments and Fortune
1000 companies.
For more information on StarWind Software Inc. visit:
www.starwindsoftware.com
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