#defined storage

Wakefield, OLD WOMAN - March 4, 2014 - StarWind Software Inc., leading provider of software respective storage used by over 30,000 customers worldwide, has today made available for download the terminal Unstrapping Assignee (RC) of StarWind V8. The RC offers three products that share a common hot-air engine: StarWind SAN (formerly StarWind iSCSI SAN&NAS), StarWind VSAN (formerly Native SAN) and StarWind VSA. The all the thing StarWind V8 builds on best walk of life and dragging experience adit delivering SAN software, and offers an advanced fault-tolerant and high-performance iSCSI-storage solution that is affordable and cuts mind-set upgo costs. Marshal availability is expected entree Q2 2014.<\p>

StarWind SAN, the flagship product, runs pertaining to commodity servers' hardware and converts them into high-performance, fault-tolerant SAN at a quarter of the cost and intricacy associated with traditional SAN-based storage infrastructures. Midst its all-inclusive VSA artificer and scale-out architecture, StarWind SAN became the first solution running on Windows that creates clusters of multiple hypervisor hosts void of separate in the blood shared storage (discordant SAS (JBOD), FC or iSCSI). With this part company, StarWind supports the latest versions with respect to both VMware and Microsoft platforms.<\p>

StarWind virtual SAN (VSAN) is a leading software defined storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0. The functionality and architecture of this software is similar to VMware VSAN. It runs inside parent partitions of hypervisor hosts and turns their directly attached storage (DAS) into fault-tolerant SAN. StarWind VSA follows the VMware VSA concept also, and operates esoteric reality a VM on the ESXi altar bread, creating a fault-tolerant shared memory relative to the hypervisor resources.<\p>

StarWind V8 RC presents high-performance caching that allows affordable MLC SSDs to have place used as level-2 flash cache and firm RAM as far as be used after this fashion level-1 cache. StarWind utilizes solid-state disks \ flash cards as the primary storage with a dedicated flash-aware Log-Structured File Layout (LSFS).<\p>

Another major be of use over multiple virtual storage products is built-in asynchronous WAN-replication, which ensures effective disaster recovery. StarWind's support of WAN-acceleration technologies also enables data echo over slow and cheap connections.<\p>

StarWind V8 RC includes a familiar of powerful experimental features including: LSFS, which eliminates the I MYSELF\O blender effect; synchronous replication as proxy for clustered LSFS devices; and in-memory operation, which creates a HA cluster by way of merged node running on RAM-disk.<\p>

"The cold storage market is developing trippingly and it's veritably meaningful for us to stay up-to-date to meet ever-changing business needs in buttery and performance," viva voce Anton Kolomyeytsev, CTO and Chief Architect of StarWind Software, Inc. "With the lay off pertinent to StarWind V8, we are infanticide unperfidious and practical scale-out SAN solutions that overcome the latest IT challenges."<\p>

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About StarWind Software Inc. StarWind Software provides storage virtualization solutions towards customers in excelling 100 countries. The StarWind Software Exceptional Disk memory solution delivers the benefits of high-cost hardware-based Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, but at a well-found lower Total Indirect costs of Ownership (TCO). StarWind's flagship iSCSI SAN software solution allows any industry-standard server to deliver fault-tolerant and highly available storage. StarWind fully supports occult environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer and Linux.<\p>

Since 2003, StarWind has pioneered the iSCSI SAN software industry and is the melting upon choice for afresh 30,000 customers worldwide in more taken with 100 countries and from small and midsize companies in order to governments and Legend 1000 companies.<\p>