Stash-IT NAS Refragmenter for Linux and Solaris Production Release

New product increases the demand for NAS storage by as much as 100% every month, thereby ensuring growing revenue for SSPs supplying internet storage on demand

• rapidly increases the amount of storage space required by typical applications such as Oracle databases, MP3 files and DVD video

• will typically double the amount of user storage required every 30 days, even when the latest generation of compression software is being used. (The growth cycle can be synchronized to your accounting cycle if you are selling storage on demand with evergreen reorder contracts.)

• storage stealth wizard (patent pending) will defy the best efforts of all current Storage Resource Management (SRM) packages to figure out what's really going on. Stash-IT literally stashes encrypted copies of data all over the managed NAS system and uses naming conventions which are impossible to unravel.

• Stash-IT's unique demand enrouter ensures that all files are accessed as if the requests were coming from genuine data users. Storage customers are therefore forced into buying more storage because all of it looks like it's important, and none of it can be safely archived to tape or jukebox.

• Stash-IT Refragmenter is available for most versions of Linux, and Solaris 7, and 8.

• Price and availability:- Stash-IT can be downloaded immediately from the Prickly Spine Software web site (approx file size is 600 Gigabytes) alternatively it can be supplied as a self extracting worm on a DVD boxed set. Pricing is $28,000 for the Solaris version, which comes with 24 hour support. The Linux version, costs just $150. The uninstall CD for Linux is also available - price on request.

• SSPs who need to sell more storage quickly, who are worried about the effects of third party compression software, and the recession.

• Software developers who want to make their packages look more impressive. Customers may not want to pay you much for that snazzy utility which only takes up 3M. But after running Stash-IT Publisher, your software will easily fill up an entire CD. That means you can charge more for the software, and don't have to worry about lost revenues due to software piracy from customers emailing it to each other.

• Systems integrators can use Stash-IT to increase the amount of storage they sell with a complete system.

• Mission critical systems benefit from using Stash-IT's Multi-mode Redundancy Module. Reliability is greatly increased. Even if 90% of the connected storage stops working, you can still access the data, because most of the storage wasn't really required in the first place.