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Company type | Commercial |
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Industry | Computer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | , |
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 |
StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held Beverly, Massachusetts-based computer software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage.
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]
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:
StarWind is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts.