StarWind Software

StarWind Software Inc.

Company type	Commercial
Industry	Computer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Beverly, Massachusetts[1] , U.S.
Key people	Anton Kolomyeytsev (CEO)
Website	www.starwindsoftware.com

StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held Beverly, Massachusetts-based^[1] computer software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage.

History

StarWind Software began in 2008 as a spin-off from Rocket Division Software, Ltd. (founded in 2003)^{[citation needed]}, with a round A^{[citation needed]} of investment from venture capital firm ABRT.^[2] 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.^[3][4][5][6]

In 2013, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital began integrating StarWind's iSCSI engine with some of the company's Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances.^[7]

In April 2016, StarWind was selected by research firm Gartner as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms".^[8]

In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware.^[9] 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.^[10] 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.^[10] The company also reportedly doubled the salaries of employees who enlisted in the Ukrainian army.^[10]

Products

StarWind develops "standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform".^[11] Its software defined storage software supports building iSCSI,^[12] iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF),^[13] and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. "Gartner's Top 10 Hyperconverged (HCI) Software Market Leaders". CRN. December 16, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
2. Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
3. David Marshall (5 June 2009). "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
4. Dave Simpson. "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Infostor.
5. Rod Trent (2 June 2014). "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". IT Pro Today.
6. Greg Schulz. "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Data Center Journal.
7. Trevor Pott (April 25, 2013). "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". The Register. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
8. "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms, 2016". Gartner.
9. "StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record". VIrtualization How To. February 28, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
10. Somerville, Heather (March 20, 2022). "Ukraine Tech Startups Pivot From Software Code to Rescue Plans". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 20, 2022.(subscription required)
11. Steve McMurray (29 October 2010). "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
12. Greg Steen (8 September 2016). "Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals". Microsoft TechNet.
13. Ray Lucchesi (26 September 2018). "Screaming IOP performance with StarWind's new NVMeoF software & Optane SSDs". Ray on Storage.

External links

• Official website