Tiger Technology ships affordable storage virtualization technology for storage professionals

poolIt pro is the first of a series of product that builds on a new patent pending technology that enables IT professionals to “pool” together multiple live storage devices into a single namespace. It offers the latest in advanced virtualization for DAS, NAS and SAN storage and enables professionals to more easily manage, consolidate, and administer their storage infrastructures. This allows one to realize greater returns on storage investments with fewer IT staff.

“Most IT professionals are having a hard time keeping up with the chaotic storage growth our industry has been undergoing” says Alexander Lefterov, CTO for Tiger Technology “Some people have spent lots of money on proprietary storage solutions in order to put an end to this ongoing burden of managing, upgrading and migrating data. Others will now find serious relief with poolIt, a much simpler, cost effective and open alternative.”

poolIt pro isolates users and applications from changes to the physical storage infrastructure. It is ideal to consolidate SAN, NAS, and local storage resources. poolIt pro allows multiple physical volumes to be aggregated into a single virtual volume so the data they contain can now be accessed from a single mount point. In addition, smart runtime and maintenance logic policies ensure that data always gets stored – or moved – to the optimal volume. Data that is not critical to daily business operations can be stored on low cost, commodity storage while data requiring high-speed and/or a higher level of protection can be stored on faster, more secure RAIDs. It is possible to optimize storage utilization based on available capacity, folder structures, file type, age, etc.

poolIt pro key features:

Easily expand capacity of existing storage infrastructure
Combine up to 10x local and network storage resources into a single virtual pool
Add/remove volumes from the pool dynamically and without data loss
Storage and vendor agnostic – Fibre Channel, SCSI, SATA, SAS, InfiniBand, USB, FireWire, etc.
Migrate data from one storage device to another transparently
Implement tiered storage for better matching the type of data with the available resources
Make use of all the available space distributed across multiple volumes
Keep recently used files locally but transfer aging files on remote servers
Create very large volumes safely and easily
Optimizes storage resource utilization through smart runtime and maintenance logic strategies

poolIt pro builds on open standards. It can dynamically pool all types of off-the-shelf storage, making it possible to transparently add new storage to an existing pool without having to reconfigure client machines, reformat storage or even reboot the workstation. With poolIt pro, IT staff can expand storage capacity of an existing volume in no time, or migrate data from one device to another without affecting users, and without risks.

poolIt pro puts an end to storage provisioning that can be expensive and difficult to forecast. The resulting virtual volume mounts as a local drive that can also be exposed as a network share to the entire organization. User rights and access privileges are preserved. In a domain environment, poolIt pro authenticates each access against native Active Directory security.

Availability
poolIt pro is now shipping for the Windows XP and Vista (32 and 64-bit) operating systems. Support for Windows Server 2003 & 2008 will soon be available with poolIt Server. Tiger Technology software products are currently available from the company’s OEM partners and its international sales partners. For sales inquiries please email us at sales@poolit.com. Additional information is available online at www.poolit.com.

About Tiger Technology
Founded in 2003, Tiger Technology OOD, is a privately held company now based in Sofia, Bulgaria. It delivers new technologies and OEM solutions in the field of storage area networking. The company’s flagship product metaSAN builds upon years of SAN-related expertise and development to bring digital content creation and enterprise professionals involved with handling large bandwidth files a unique, cross-platform, hardware-agnostic, high-speed file sharing SAN management solution that sets new standards for workgroup collaboration and reliability. For further information on Tiger Technology please visit www.tiger-technology.com .

Media Contact
Bernard Lamborelle
Tiger Technology
Direct : (514) 667-2015
Email : bernard@poolit.com