Basic questions - Looking to purchase

[jasonsele]

We are looking to purchase a SAN solution for our network and came across the StarWind site. Given the cost of other SAN solutions it appears this may provide the same functionality and save us some money. We are looking at this to provide SAN storage in a cluster environment and I am curious if others have successfully implemented this as a alternate approach and have seen the same reliability you would get from a typical SAN. We're starting from scratch with our network and probably need at least 8TB of storage for Oracle & SQL databases as well as several Microsoft Server Software disk storage targets. I am told a standard SAN such as Dell Powervault or Equallogic is a more robust solution than something like this and it would be a risk for us to put our core data onto this type of environment. Anyone care to comment? Is this really as strong a solution or are there some risks associated with the cost savings?

Jason

[Robert (staff)]

Jason,

Please contact us at sales@starwindsoftware.com - we will provide you with additional details and the pre-sales engineers will answer all your questions.

Briefly, StarWind is an application for Windows. It's main advantage is that it can be installed on an existing environment and work in an existing network (LAN). It is comparitively cheaper than hardware solutions. Performance and uptime also proves to be high if all the recommended settings are applied. Of course, iSCSI technology itself provides a little overhead due to IP encapsulation, however, using it on at list 1GB Ethernet is able to provide almost the wire speed performance.

We would like to discuss more details with you and explain the best implementation scenarios. Please drop us a note to sales@starwindsoftware.com we will do our best to help you.

Thanks.

[Alex Satler (staff)]

Besides sending email, you have an option to contact sales directly by phone as well.

If you are located in USA, Canada or South America please call to: +16174497717
If you are located in Europe, Asia or Australia please call to: +44 (0) 207 193 6727

Sales would be able to provide you with pricing, ways to make a payment, describe the product features etc.

[anton (staff)]

Thanks for this update Alex! Hope you've already converted this qualified lead to happy customer )