StarWind Software Inc., an innovative provider of iSCSI SAN software and VM backup technology, announced today that their solution, StarWind iSCSI SAN, has been nominated as a finalist in The Storage Awards 2012 in two categories – Storage Virtualization Product of the Year and Storage Magazine “One to Watch” Award.

The Storage Awards is an annual event presented by Storage Magazine, a leading data storage publication in the United Kingdom in order to honor the best storage products in the industry. The readers of Storage Magazine vote for, and reward, companies and services that they believe have made significant contributions to the IT industry during the year.
Last year, the 2011 Awards saw more than 6,500 readers vote (32,000+ votes cast in total) for their favorite products, people, and companies.

StarWind has been nominated for its StarWind iSCSI SAN – highly available storage software that delivers an ideal mix of performance, simplicity, and enterprise-class features, such as High Availability, Synchronous Mirroring with Automatic Failover, Remote Replication for disaster recovery, CDP/Snapshots, Thin Provisioning, Global Deduplication etc. StarWind’s software makes it easy to manage and optimize storage capacity, performance, and data protection across the entire IT infrastructure. It ensures complete data consolidation, maximum hardware utilization, and considerable reduction of operation and capital costs (OpEx and CapEx).

“The Storage Awards is a renowned industry award. The nomination as a finalist emphasizes StarWind’s innovative potential and significant results in the area of business continuity and data protection,” said Artem Berman, Chief Executive Officer of StarWind Software. “We are honored to be recognized by Storage Magazine for our virtualization achievements in the IT industry as we continue our efforts to provide high-performance storage solutions that are ideal for the virtualized environment.”

The winners of The Storage Awards will be announced on June 14, 2012 at the Storage Awards Ceremony held at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London. Take a second to check out all of the categories and nominations and take the time to VOTE:

• STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCT OF THE YEAR – StarWind iSCSI SAN
• STORAGE MAGAZINE “ONE TO WATCH” AWARD – StarWind iSCSI SAN