Starwind A Successful Solution
In computing, ISCSI is a shortening for Internet Small Computer System Interface.
Basically it’s an Internet Protocol based storage networking standard which deals with linking data storage facility.
StarWind Software, a leading software development company, manufactures and provides storage virtualization due to its iSCSI SAN software.
The primary task of this software is to convert any Windows server into a dependable and high quality SAN. The company was founded in 2003. It has been popular in over 100 countries and is used by a large number of customers.
The software solutions are of exceptional quality and they satisfy a number of IT demands successfully. Having a worldwide partners and resellers chain helps the company to work with many leading companies.
The company has already got a brilliant customers profile: Dell, Microsoft, NASA, Toyota, Avis and many more. The fact that the company has its own real-time customer support is among company’s biggest pluses.
Some distinctive features of the software are described below. The software uses TCP/IP allowing two hosts to negotiate SCSI commands using the same IP network. Due to the latter, a Storage Area Network (SAN) is created.
ISCSI requires no additional cabling. System administrators may use the software to allow server computers to access disk volumes. Mainly it has two objectives i.e. storage consolidation and disaster recovery.
Talking about its other products, we couldn’t fail to mention StarWind (iSCSI Target Software), StarPort (iSCSI software initiator) and some free products like StarWind Free, StarPort Free and StarWind V2V Converter.
The latter allows converting VMware files to Microsoft Hyper-V format and vice versa. StarPort allows establishing connections to ISCSI target & AoE device.
There is some downloadable software that can be found at www.starwindsoftware.com.
The IT project solutions that can be implemented with these software solutions include Server Virtualization, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery etc.
As software, developed for global usage, the products successfully support Exchange Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, SQL database, Oracle database.
When it comes to the industries the StarWind software can be used in, it becomes clear that the software will function perfectly well in any industry, including health, education, government, financial services etc.
October 12th, 2009at 3:19 pm
indeed, this seems to be a successful business solution.
Anyway i’m a sceptical guy and i’ll wait to see if this really happens!
October 20th, 2009at 9:08 am
Great post!
StarWind became pretty useful tool for me. BTW I heard that v5 with support of Synchronous Data Mirroring with Active-Active Automated Failover and Failback will be released soon.
November 27th, 2009at 1:35 pm
Yes Sergey, it has been released. even more – I’m using it already. Now I’m sure about data security in my network.