StarWind Becomes IBM Business Partner

StarWind Software, Inc. has joined IBM’s PartnerWorld technology alliance program. By becoming an IBM partner, StarWind is further enhancing its relationship with IBM and is taking the step to integrate its signature StarWind iSCSI SAN software with IBM servers such as IBM x3655 and IBM BladeCenter to provide its channel partners with more choices and flexibility for their customers’ SAN and virtualization deployments.

As part of the PartnerWorld program, StarWind and IBM commit to working together on joint marketing, collaborative selling, software integration and performance optimization. The relationship will deliver enhanced disaster recovery and business continuity for IBM customers. StarWind will enable IBM customers to cluster their IBM System X servers running Windows Server 2008 for high availability and disaster recovery allowing StarWind iSCSI SAN to function as shared storage for server clusters, offering enterprise-class features such as CDP & Snapshots and Mirroring & Replication.

"We are pleased to join the PartnerWorld network to market our joint solutions to customers. IBM customers can now run StarWind iSCSI SAN on high-performance IBM System X servers for disaster recovery and virtualization projects," said Zorian Rotenberg, President and CEO, StarWind Software. "Our partnership with IBM not only broadens our reach but also provides IBM customers with one of the most advanced, reliable and affordable iSCSI SAN solutions available today."

StarWind iSCSI SAN Server 4.0 is a cost-effective, open iSCSI SAN software solution that can be installed on a high-performance server such as IBM x3655 running Windows Server 2008, converting it into a reliable, powerful, and full-featured SAN. Designed to work with leading virtualization solutions such as VMware ESX, StarWind iSCSI SAN supports IBM System X and IBM BladeCenter servers listed within VMware ESX Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). The combination of IBM x3655s with its 1.8 TB hot-swap, high-performance, serial-attached SCSI (SAS) disk drives or 4.5 TB hot-swap SATA drives with StarWind iSCSI SAN is an ideal choice for high I/O and transactional applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Oracle. StarWind also supports IBM’s AIX iSCSI Initiator.

IBM’s PartnerWorld is a marketing and enablement ecosystem designed to create new revenue and market opportunities for IBM’s Business Partners and provide customers with e-business solutions including products, services, technologies and financing. The partnership provides StarWind with access to IBM’s customers and partners and assures IBM customers that StarWind iSCSI SAN has passed rigorous testing with IBM System X servers.