StarWind Software

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StarWind Software Inc.
Company type Commercial
Industry Computer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage
Founded2008
Headquarters
Beverly, Massachusetts [1]
,
U.S.
Key people
Anton Kolomyeytsev (CEO)
Products iSCSI Target
NVMe over Fabrics Target
De-duplication Engine
Virtual tape library Appliance
Hyperconverged Appliance
Storage Appliance
FCoE Initiator
iSCSI Initiator
NVMe over Fabrics Initiator
ATA-over-Ethernet Initiator
Website www.starwindsoftware.com

StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held Beverly, Massachusetts-based computer software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage.

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History

StarWind Software began in 2008 as a spin-off from Rocket Division Software, Ltd. (founded in 2003), with a round A of investment from venture capital firm ABRT. [2] [3] It started providing early adopters with initially free software defined storage offerings in 2009, including its V2V (virtual-to-virtual) image converter and iSCSI SAN software. [4] [5] [6] [7]

In 2013, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital began integrating StarWind's iSCSI engine with some of the company's Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. [8]

In mid-April 2014, StarWind Software closed a round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital. [9]

In August 2015, StarWind announced a combined software-hardware product called HyperConverged Appliance. [10]

In April 2016, StarWind was selected by research firm Gartner as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms". [11]

In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware. [12] In December, StarWind was named to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for HCI software. [1]

In March 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported how the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine was affecting technology firms with a significant presence in Ukraine, including StarWind. [13] Once the invasion was imminent, the company helped its employees move out of the country, including relocating 60 of the 180 workers from its Kyiv, Ukraine office to Wroclaw, Poland. [13] The company also reportedly doubled the salaries of employees who enlisted in the Ukrainian army. [13]

Products

StarWind develops standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform. [14] Its software defined storage software supports building iSCSI, [15] iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF), [16] and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware. [17]

Its products include:

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