Storage Networking
Calsoft Labs provides component development, turnkey software development, consulting, product out-sourcing and system integration services. We specialize in the delivery of high quality products that meet our customers’ cost, schedule and quality goals in the areas of storage networking, storage virtualization and related network storage technologies. Our determined focus in these areas has helped us build an experienced team.
Calsoft Labs has conceptualized, designed and developed a multi protocol file switch (MPFS) that virtualize, load balance and route network file traffic (NFS and CIFS protocols). The beta version of the product will be released shortly. This product has been developed primarily for our product-outsourcing and OEM customers who want to integrate file level storage switching and routing intelligence on their network appliances/platforms.
Expertise Areas
Calsoft labs’s core areas of expertise in the network storage domain are as described below:
| Expertise areas | Description |
| NFS and CIFS |
CIFS and NFS have been the synonyms for simple network file access from Windows and UNIX/Linux based operating systems for decades. Storage networking R&D team at Calsoft labs have created a unique technology from scratch that virtualize, route, aggregate NFS and CIFS servers to bring out true scalability, high availability and security. |
| Storage security |
Calsoft labs in its unique product MPFS(Multiprotocol File switch), have implemented un-precedented file access security, storage Intrusion Prevention among other security checks that prevent insider attacks to stored data(DLP). We have data security speiclists with core skills in AES, 3DES, encryption key management, number theory and information security. |
| Unix and Linux kernel development |
Calsoft Labs’ storage research team has kernel experts who have been working with UNIX/Linux kernels for more than a decade. |
| Storage networking protocols(FC-SAN,IP-SAN, iSCSI) replication, backup, migration, NAS virtualization, NFM, WAN acceleration, File systems, SCSI etc |
Calsoft Labs’ has a team of several experts with an in depth knowledge in networking protocols. |
| Distributed storage, Cloud storage |
As technology progresses and the Internet has been converted to a data center, the distributed and cloud Storage segments have grown in leaps and bounds. Calsoft Labs has a core team of experts who provide services in these segments. |


