StarWind and Cirrus Tech Partner to Deliver Cutting Edge Technologies to the Cloud Computing Market

StarWind Solutions Become Available Through a Leading Canadian Web Hosting Company

Burlington, MA – 6 August 2012 - StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of storage virtualization software and VM backup technology, announced today a new partnership agreement with Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Canadian web hosting company specializing in VPS, VM and cloud hosting services. Companies collaborate to deliver best-in-breed Cloud services that help customers accelerate their businesses.

According to the agreement, Cirrus Tech extends its portfolio with StarWind storage virtualization software and will offer it to their customers as a dedicated storage platform that delivers a highly available and high performance scalable storage infrastructure that is capable of supporting heterogeneous server environments; as Cloud storage for private clouds as well as a robust solution for building Disaster Recovery (DR) plans.

StarWind SAN solutions deliver a wide variety of enterprise-class features, such as High Availability (HA), Synchronous Data Mirroring, Remote Asynchronous Replication, CDP/Snapshots, Thin Provisioning, Global Deduplication, etc., that make the stored data highly available, simplify storage management, and ensure business continuity and disaster recovery.

"Companies are increasingly turning to cloud services to gain efficiencies and respond faster to today’s changing business requirements." said Artem Berman, Chief Executive Officer of StarWind Software, Inc. "We are pleased to combine our forces with Cirrus Tech in order to deliver our customers a wide range of innovative cloud services that will help their transition to a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure."

"Every business needs to consider what would happen in the event of a disaster," shares Cirrus CEO Ehsan Mirdamadi. "By bringing StarWind’s SAN solution to our customers, we are helping them to ease the burden of disaster recovery planning by offering powerful and affordable storage options. You never want to think of the worst, but when it comes to your sensitive data and business critical web operations, it’s always better to be safe than sorry. Being safe just got that much easier for Cirrus customers."

To find out more about Cirrus’ web hosting services visit http://www.cirrushosting.com or call 1.877.624.7787.
For more information about StarWind, visit www.starwindsoftware.com

About Cirrus Hosting
Cirrus Tech Ltd. has been a leader in providing affordable, dependable VHS and VPS hosting services in Canada since 1999. They have hosted and supported hundreds of thousands of websites and applications for Canadian businesses and clients around the world. As a BBB member with an A+ rating, Cirrus Tech is a top-notch Canadian web hosting company with professional support, rigorous reliability and easily upgradable VPS solutions that grow right alongside your business. Their Canadian data center is at 151 Front Street in Toronto.

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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