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Company: StarWind Software
Headquarters: Burlington, Mass.
Technology Sector: Storage
Key Product: StarWind Enterprise Server
Year Founded: 2003
Number of Channel Partners: 100 worldwide
Ideal Channel Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider
Why You Should Care: StarWind's software can turn a Microsoft Windows-based server into a low-cost iSCSI SAN.
The Lowdown: Budgeting for a fully functional shared storage or SAN is something that most small and medium sized business just don't have the purse strings for. But that doesn't mean that the functionality a SAN brings to data protection is optional.
StarWind Software, based in Burlington, Mass., has an offering that still fulfills demanding storage requirements while catering to a business with a smaller budget.
"Shared storage is truly magical," said Zorian Rotenberg, CEO of StarWind. "But shared storage costs money. When you go to a name brand company, an entry level box is going to be very expensive."
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"Our software converts a standard Window server -- x86, AMD, Intel, 64- or 32-bit -- into a fully functional SAN with thin provisioning, continuous data protection, mirroring and replication, and the features of a more expensive piece of hardware," said Rotenberg.
The software costs around $3,000, giving smaller, budget-crunched customers an option when storage solutions based on more expensive technology are out of reach.
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