Planet Technologies announces Partnership with String Bean Software
Gaithersburg, MD – August 2, 2005 – Planet Technologies today announced that it has entered into a partnership with String Bean Software, Inc., a leading developer of easy-to-use and affordable full-featured iSCSI-based storage area networking solutions for the Microsoft Windows computing environment. String Bean Software and Planet Technologies will work together to integrate and leverage the benefits of iSCSI SAN solutions in the data center environment.
“Every once in a while you have one of those “ah-ha!” moments when you realize things have just changed for the better – and WinTarget was one of those moments for Planet Technologies, ” said Paul Edlund, CTO, Planet Technologies. “With WinTarget we can provide our customers with scalable and more cost-effective solutions that include critical functionality such as disk quotas, N+1 clustering for Microsoft SQL and/or Exchange, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, dynamic disk allocation, and virtual server disk capacity.”
“Planet Technologies’ demonstrated expertise in Microsoft technologies and track record of delivering integrated business solutions makes them an ideal partner for us,” said Mickey McIntire, CEO, String Bean Software. “It’s exciting to partner with a company that also sees the value of WinTarget in the production data center environment including its ability to support scalable, mission-critical, high-performance applications.


