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February 3, 2009 - Rocket Division Software today announced their spin-off of its StarWind iSCSI Target solution into a new company, StarWind Software Inc. Rocket Division, will continue to serve the market with the StarBurn family products, while StarWind Software will be offering StarWind and StarPort storage software for corporate customers. StarWind Software received its first round of investor funding, led by ABRT Venture Fund, to expand their product offering capabilities, expand the management team and grow sales, channel distribution and marketing efforts. For additional information regarding StarWind Software or StarWind iSCSI Target, please visit www.StarWindSoftware.com.

StarWind iSCSI Target for Microsoft Windows

Features	StarWind FREE Edition	StarWind Server	StarWind VTL	StarWind Enterprise Server
CDP & Snapshots (Microsoft VSS compatible) with volume cloning and unlimited number of dynamic disk volume "roll-backs"
Mirroring & Asynchronous Replication over low-bandwidth connection
Thin Provisioning
I/O read and write caching (uses the target's RAM as a cache to improve both throughput and response time)
Compression and Encryption
CHAP user authentication
IPsec on-the-fly iSCSI network traffic encryption (tunneling)
Software RAID1 (mirror) over different physical hard disk drives
Number of served physical or virtual Ethernet ports	1	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Number of served hard disk drives	2	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Maximum served single hard disk drive capacity and total target served capacity	2 TB	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Number of supported CPUs or CPU cores	4	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Number of supported concurrent iSCSI connections	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Mapping physical or virtual Serial and Parallel ATA and SCSI, Fibre Channel, USB and FireWire hardware as iSCSI (whatever-to-iSCSI bridge), so-called "SPTI" (SCSI Pass-Through Inteface) mode
iSCSI RAM disk (for network performance tuning)
iSCSI CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD emulation
iSCSI VTL (Virtual Tape Library) emulation
License Price	FREE	$595	$1,795	$2,995
Maintenance & Support	n/a	$119	$359	$599
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* Basic version of VTL feature allows creation of maximum 4 devices with maximum size of 512 GB each.
** Advanced version of VTL feature allows creation of maximum 64 devices with maximum size of 1 TB each.

Additional Information

All licenses include 1 year of free upgrades (minor version number releases) and 60 days of free support (including major version number releases issued within 60 days of purchase). Additional year(s) of ASM (annual support and maintenance) can be purchased separately.

We offer volume discounts for purchases of more than one license. Please read the volume discount levels and contact us for ordering instructions.

Custom engineering services are available. Our "know how" and development expertise cover a wide range of existing and emerging technologies, such as: CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD recording and mastering, tape backup and restore, iSCSI and AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet), virtual storage, local and network file system design.

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Media Coverage

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