StarWind Software

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.

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

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]}