StarWind Software Inc., a leading provider of software-defined storage and storage virtualization software, announced today that their solution, StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS, has been nominated as a finalist in the SVC Awards 2013 in two categories: “Virtualization Management Product of the Year” and “Storage Virtualization Product of the Year”. These highly prestigious awards reward products, projects and services, and honor companies and teams which operate in the cloud, virtualization, and storage sectors.

StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS delivers industry-adopted storage architecture, which helps to solve common challenges in storage environments including: storage system costs, capacity growth, securing confidential data, inability to scale efficiently, and other complex management problems. One of the most affordable and easy-to-use solutions available, StarWind software provides innovative and advanced technologies which deliver powerful data protection, cost savings and business process improvements.

“We are extremely honored to be acknowledged as a finalist for the SVC Awards for a second year in succession”, said Artem Berman, Chief Operating Officer of StarWind Software. “Being nominated for awards in two categories demonstrates the important contribution our storage virtualization solution has made to the industry, and it is a wonderful recognition of the company’s hard work. Winning the award will motivate us to set the bar even higher for the future”.

The winners of the SVC Awards 2013 will be announced on November 21, 2013 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London.

Please take a moment to check out the categories and nominations – and please VOTE:

• VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENT PRODUCT OF THE YEAR – StarWind iSCSI SAN&NAS by StarWind Software
• STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION PRODUCT OF THE YEAR – StarWind iSCSI SAN&NAS by StarWind Software

About StarWind Software Inc.
StarWind Software provides storage virtualization solutions to customers in over 100 countries. The StarWind Software Defined Storage solution delivers the benefits of high-cost hardware-based Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, but at a much lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). StarWind’s flagship iSCSI SAN software solution allows any industry-standard server to deliver fault-tolerant and highly available storage. StarWind fully supports virtual environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer and Linux.

Since 2003, StarWind has pioneered the iSCSI SAN software industry and is the solution of choice for over 30,000 customers worldwide in more than 100 countries and from small and midsize companies to governments and Fortune 1000 companies.

For more information on StarWind Software Inc., visit: www.starwindsoftware.com