StarPort is an iSCSI Initiator [client], RAM disk and Virtual DVD drive. When combined with StarWind working as a server allows you to share CD/DVD burners over the network and use your favorite CD/DVD burning application; share tape drives over the network and use your favorite tape backup application to backup to tape drive remotely; share hard disk drives over the network for fast storing large amounts of data (replication) at block-level rather than doing this at file-level; backup whole server storage subsystem over the network w/o putting machine down; work with the virtual volumes, dynamic volume snapshots, incremental backups; create extremely fast RAM disk drives for temporary data storing; and mount standard ISO and MDS images into created Virtual DVD drives.