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Storewiz, a US-based provider of data compression solutions, has developed a patent-pending technology that will greatly increases storage capacity while keeping storage costs for companies at a minimum.

Its flagship product, the STN-5000, will allow data to be packed into a third of its original space. So, 600MB of data can now be stored using less than 200MB once it bypasses the STN-5000's compression process.

Companies will benefit from the reduce data storage expenditure and operation maintenance cost with the introduction of such an on-the-fly data storage compressor.

Yakov Cohen, Vice-President of Global Marketing and Alliances for Storewiz, Inc. said: "It provides the first universal support for compression of block-level disks as an add-on to storage arrats while being totally invisible to storage and client components - keeping storage capabilities intact."

The easy to install appliance provides real time transparent compression of stored data to a third of its original space without hindering performance, allowing for quick access to databases and files. By preserving complete transparency to users, databases, applications, operating systems, storage and network environments and not altering vendor storage functionality, maintenance, operation and capital costs are also lowered.

Capital expenditure reduction of two to five times across the data storage budget is expected with the Storewiz technology.

Other key benefits include:

• Postponing of expensive storage upgrades
• Reduced time to market allowed for new applications
• Reduction of backup/restore window
• Decrease of Network traffic for remote backup operations
• Reduction of the number of storage units to manage

The storage solutions are such a success that they have already been implemented worldwide by more than 80 sites, which are mainly blue-chip companies.

Independent distributor Asaiki Technology Pte Ltd specialises in the high tech industry and has been made channel partner through a reseller agreement with Storewiz back in August last year. The STN-5000 is now readily available through them.

"The innovation and uniqueness of the storage compression technology introduced by Storewiz has taken us by surprise, as we look forward to the considerable savings we can offer end users who will deploy the solution," said Vinson Chua, Managing Director for Asaiki Technology.

Executive Vice-President of sales for Storewiz, Nir Kunik, was pleased that Asaiki was one of is latest channel partners. Mr Kunik stated: "The partnership with Asaiki Technology allows us to locally focus on the Singapore market while benefiting from a strong, experienced partner in new technology market penetration."