StarWind offers massive discount countdown on HA products

March 7, 2013 by Leave a comment

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StarWind Software offers a great discount during the month of March. Discount starts at 31 % at March 1 and will go down to 1 % on March 31.

StarWind makes software which delivers functionality of SAN without the associated high costs of a SAN. Basically local storage of servers is presented to virtual machines in such way features like High Availability and Live Migration are available. StarWind solutions are targeted at the small and medium businesses (SMB).

To claim the discount, use  promo code:STARMARCH312013_MB18 when registering for a quote.
Everybody who buys any StarWind HA product till the end of March using this promo code, will get not only a discount but the 2nd year ASM (Annual Software Maintenance) for free.

More information on the discount deal here.

The discount is given on two products:

StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS is the storage hypervisor that creates fault-tolerant and high performance storage within minutes. This is a truly hardware-agnostic solution that can be installed on any commodity server. This robust software is a perfect fit for SMBs that need to create highly available shared storage without large investments.

StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V is the best option for you if you want to take full advantage of Live Migration and High Availability but don’t want to spend money on expensive hardware SAN.  StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V allows building a reliable, fast and easy-to-manage shared storage in the existing infrastructure, which makes this solution affordable for the small and midsize business.

The image below shows a setup of StarWind iSCSI SAN.

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The chart below shows the given discount.

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Filed under Hyper-V, StarWind, VMware solutions, Windows Server 2012

StarWind Software introduces 3 new releases including free versions of storage virtualization software

November 18, 2012 by Leave a comment

StarWind Software has released three new releases of software in November,

Firstly they announced at November 25 the release of the VMware Backup Plug-in, a powerful backup solution for small and medium-sized businesses with growing data storage, backup, and recovery needs.
VMware Backup Plug-in is an agentless backup solution for easy and fast VM backup and recovery, developed specifically for VMware-based environments. It fully supports VMware vSphere 5.1, making StarWind one of the first vendors to support this new hypervisor platform.
Read more about this here.

StarWind also announced  the release of the new StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V V6 and improved Hyper-V Backup Plug-in.
The new version of StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V is enhanced with the three-node synchronous mirroring of HA storage cluster. The system provides real-time replication and simultaneously updates the three distributed copies of data. The new HA architecture ensures 99.9999% uptime, provides at least 50% higher performance compared to the 2-node configuration, intensifies redundancy, makes the storage resilient against failures, and greatly simplifies the maintenance. Henceforth, you can add high availability to StarWind virtual devices. It is possible to add high availability to the CDP-device, or export the entire physical disk as the HA device. Read more here.

Also released is the StarWind iSCSI SAN Free edition and StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V Free edition with the entire functionality of High Availability (HA).

The free editions of storage virtualization software offer an unlimited number of concurrent iSCSI connections and unlimited storage capacity for single-node device. The StarWind free editions with an HA device permit installation on two servers, but are limited in storage capacity to 128 GB. Hence, StarWind allows IT admins to simplify their life by enabling them to save the time and money of their respective organizations, as well as any customer to evaluate this advanced technology in testing labs, for personal use or education.

StarWind free editions offers a unique set of features, including Active-Active High Availability, Data Deduplication, CDP and Snapshots, Thin provisioning and high speed caching, etc. Such features as Asynchronous WAN-replication, SPTI and SAN/NAS cluster file share sharing are offered as paid upgrade options.

“Currently, StarWind is the only vendor offering iSCSI SAN software with the full set of advanced features at no cost,” said Artem Berman, Chief Executive Officer of StarWind Software. “We are making history in the storage industry, since every customer can now deploy StarWind free HA solutions designed for major hypervisor platforms without any hidden costs in order to evaluate the technology and view its benefits in operation.”

If you need a SAN with more storage capacity and extended functionality, you can easily upgrade the free editions to paid versions while preserving the settings and avoiding downtime simply by activating a purchased license key.

read more here

 

Filed under StarWind, Storage, VMware solutions, VSA Virtual Storage Appliance, vSphere 5, Windows Server 2012

StarWind Software Solution Receives U.S. Army Certificate of Networthiness (CoN)

June 8, 2012 by Leave a comment

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StarWind iSCSI SAN Is Certified for Use in the Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network

 

Burlington, MA – June 6, 2012 – StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of iSCSI SAN software and VM backup technology, today announced that its best-in-breed solution for virtualized IT environments and cloud computing, StarWind iSCSI SAN, has been awarded the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN #201210198) by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM).
The CoN accreditation ensures that StarWind iSCSI SAN meets the strict U.S. Army and Department of Defense (DoD) standards for security, compatibility, supportability, and sustainability. This enables government departments to improve the capacity, efficiency, and performance of storage area network (SAN) environments while remaining compliant with U.S. military IT standards.
The award is a requirement for all enterprise software products functioning within the U.S. Army Enterprise Infrastructure Network and applies to all Army Reserve, National Guard, and DoD organizations that use this network.

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“The Certificate of Networthiness is recognized as a benchmark for security, compatibility, and sustainability validation,” said Artem Berman, Chief Executive Officer of StarWind Software. “We are extremely proud to add this award to our list of achievements, as it demonstrates how committed we are to delivering the best and most secure software to our Department of Defense customers. This certification will increase our level of trust with the U.S. Army and further develop a deeper relationship with both government agencies and private sector enterprises.”

About StarWind Software Inc. StarWind Software is a global leader in storage management and SAN software for small and midsize companies. 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 focuses on providing small and midsize companies 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, CDP and 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 more than 100 countries and 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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New StarWind V5.8 – Storage & Hyper-V VM Backup from one vendor!

January 6, 2012 by Leave a comment

StarWind iSCSI SAN V5.8 introduces a new powerful backup technology designed specifically for Hyper-V-based environments to provide fast backup and restore for virtual machines.

The key to protection of your virtualization investments is one solution with a rich feature set developed to help you achieve your IT goals easily. It is ONE ultimate answer to all your storage and data managing needs.

StarWind iSCSI SAN 5.8 provides:

Hyper-V Backup Plug-in

·         Agentless Architecture
·         Backups stored in VHD format
·         Global Deduplication
·         Single-click Backup

iSCSI Storage

·       100% stability and uptime
·       High Availability / Automatic Failover
·       Network Centralized Management
·       Synchronous Replication

StarWind will have a free webinar on this solution:
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT ( 11:00 AM EST)

Register now to learn more!

Filed under StarWind, Storage

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