Press Release:

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.”