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High Availability has become a mandate for most organizations irrespective of their size, IT budgets, or even the current economic climate. However, many IT administrators today do not have the resources to deploy the High Availability (HA) features available to VMware, because of the cost and complexity of the shared storage, one of the elements required in order to activate these features. While VMware presents you with many of the advanced features enabling business continuity you still require the shared storage that unlocks those features.

Recently, StorMagic introduced the SvSAN HA Kit, a complimentary Storage Virtual Appliance with High Availability. The SvSAN HA Kit allows you to initiate your Business Continuity plans without any associated costs. In this webinar, StorMagic will discuss the SvSAN HA Kit in more detail and cover the benefits of implementing High Availability in your organization. How would you like to experience the peace of mind in knowing your virtual environment is available and your business will continue without interruption without spending a nickel? Find out how on November 19^th^, 2009!

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Company to Demonstrate Storage Virtual Appliance at VMworld 2009

Eden Prairie, Minn. - August 26, 2009 - StorMagic®, a fast-growing developer of iSCSI SAN management software for virtualized server environments, today announced that the StorMagic SvSAN^TM^ storage virtual appliance is supporting VMware vSphere^TM^ 4, which includes VMware ESX and VMware ESXi. Qualified users can get a free copy of the SvSAN for management of up to 2 TB and with no expiration date by visiting the StorMagic booth #2536 at VMworld 2009, August 31 through September 3, in San Francisco, Calif. At VMworld 2009, StorMagic is also sponsoring a "Crack-the-Vault" contest that gives attendees an opportunity to win $10,000 in cash, and also learn how they could save thousands of dollars.

The StorMagic SvSAN is designed to enable the deployment of a high-availability shared storage solution for less than $2,000, allowing VMware vSphere 4 users to take advantage of enhanced server virtualization functions without the need to purchase expensive shared storage.

Introduced in April 2009, VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's leading virtualization platform, transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud infrastructures to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. VMware vSphere 4 is the most cost-effective way for small businesses to enable ‘Always On IT' - the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses.

"With its support for VMware vSphere^TM^ 4, the StorMagic SvSAN can now better manage our infrastructure as an efficient, flexible and dynamic virtualized environment," said Kim Tauchen, director of operations/IT at Direct Enterprises, Inc. "Smaller companies like ours have similar needs to the enterprise, so to have an option like the SvSAN that cost-effectively delivers enterprise-class features is terrific."

"Customers are responsive, in part because they are now able to create, manage, and provision storage in their VMware environments through a user-friendly console," said Scott Brousse, chief technology officer at PBG. . "On top of this, the StorMagic solution allows them to build a business continuity plan, knowing that they can get the simplicity they want without giving up high availability - through rapid and automated failover - and performance."

"We are now offering VMware users storage virtual appliances to manage the storage infrastructures of virtualized environments," said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing at StorMagic. "We launched SvSAN a few months ago, and the interest we have experienced from the VMware community is amazing. Our tests in real-world environments have shown that the SvSAN addresses the shared storage needs of SMBs and remote office environments, and delivers similar performance to external storage with a comparable number of disk drives."

StorMagic SvSAN includes features users would expect from an enterprise-class SAN and provides optional licenses for high availability and capacity management. By turning unused storage capacity into a virtual SAN, the solution is designed to enable users to take advantage of advanced features of VMware environments such as VMware High Availability (HA), VMware VMotion^TM^ and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), without the need for an external SAN. StorMagic SvSAN is also designed to work with VMware vCenter^TM^ Server, so that administrators are able to manage datastores, the StorMagic iSCSI SAN, and the internal RAID controller from within the VMware vSphere Client and VMware vCenter Server.

With capacity that starts at 2 TB and scales to unlimited storage, the SvSAN enables administrators to create, manage and provision datastores through a single-step process, which allows them to rapidly deploy datastores without managing multiple applications. Add-on features include active-active mirroring for high-availability and capacity management upgrades..

About StorMagic

StorMagic is a fast-growing provider of cost-effective storage management software solutions that simplify, automate, and manage data storage for virtual server environments. With an executive team of storage veterans from companies such as Adaptec, Xiotech, and Eurologic, the company has brought to market an easy-to-use and highly reliable software with superior data management and migration capabilities, helping organizations protect and manage their mission-critical data. StorMagic has offices in Bristol, United Kingdom, and Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please call (800) 517-5282 or visit http://www.stormagic.com/.

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Eden Prairie, Minn. - April 1, 2009 - StorMagic®, a fast-growing developer of iSCSI SAN management software for virtualized server environments, today unveiled the results of its promotion following the launch of the SvSAN^TM^ storage virtual appliance. Over the past six weeks, the website has been inundated with requests for the software, and, as a result, users have downloaded more than 1,000 copies of SvSAN.

"We came across the StorMagic SvSAN promotion and decided to try it out, because the software addresses a need that we have been unable to meet for some time," said Jacob Cooper, president and owner of Cooplabs. "The SvSAN passed the test with flying colors; building the SAN with the VMware ESX host's internal drives was very straightforward and, after only a few minutes, we were up and running."

Many features of the StorMagic SvSAN have had a strong reception; from the VMware vCenter^TM^ integration capability that allows end users to manage their datastores, RAID and iSCSI SAN right from within VMware vCenter, to using VMware VMotion^TM^ without the need to purchase an expensive SAN, the feedback has been impressive. The StorMagic SvSAN high-availability option has also been a hit with end users. "To be able to create a high-availability infrastructure with shared storage for less than $2,000 is rather unique. To have it include responsive and thorough technical support is indispensable," said Joel Hurford, a principal at Mitsis LLC.

"If you need any more proof that the VMware world needs a simple easy way to make storage-related problems all but disappear, just look how fast StorMagic's product has taken off," commented Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "More than 1,000 people have already downloaded their stuff, and the word back is nothing short of stunning. These guys could attain cult status at this rate."

"We are impressed with the response that the SvSAN has triggered; it shows that there is a marked need for an easy-to-use solution that allows small to mid-size organizations to build a cost-effective, virtual SAN," said Mike Stolz, vice president of marketing at StorMagic. "Many organizations that downloaded the software as part of the promotion are already implementing it in their VMware ESX environment, and are leveraging the internal disk drives as a virtual SAN."

The channel community also welcomed the StorMagic SvSAN, because it addresses a huge gap in the SMB space. The solution has allowed resellers to target many unutilized VMware ESX hosts without the required shared storage to perform advanced tasks such as VMware VMotion, Single Operation Provisioning and automatic HA discovery.

The StorMagic SvSAN is available today through a worldwide network of channel partners at an MSRP starting at US$995 for a single virtual appliance license and 2-Terabyte capacity management license; capacity management licenses are available for 4, 8 and unlimited terabyte configurations. Qualified customers can get a promo key for free access to the StorMagic solution (not a trial version) by visiting http://www.stormagic.com/.

About StorMagic
StorMagic is a fast-growing provider of cost-effective storage management software solutions that simplify, automate, and manage data storage for virtual server environments+.+ With an executive team of storage veterans from companies such as Adaptec, Xiotech, and Eurologic, the company has brought to market an easy-to-use and highly reliable software with superior data management and migration capabilities, helping organizations protect and manage their mission-critical data. StorMagic has offices in Bristol, United Kingdom, and Eden Prairie, Minn. For more information, please call (800) 517-5282 or visit http://www.stormagic.com/.