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StarWind Software Inc.
TypeCommercial
IndustryComputer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage
Founded2008
Headquarters
Beverly, Massachusetts[1]
,
U.S.
Key peopleAnton Kolomyeytsev (Organizational founder), Dave Zabrowski (CEO)
Websitewww.starwindsoftware.com

StarWind Software, Inc. is a software and hardware appliance company based in Beverly, Massachusetts[1] specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage. Originally held privately, it was acquired by DataCore Software in May 2025.[2]

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.[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 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]

In May 2025, StarWind was acquired by DataCore Software.[2]

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.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gartner's Top 10 Hyperconverged (HCI) Software Market Leaders". CRN. December 16, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Zwets, Berry (2025-05-21). "DataCore completes HCI offering with acquisition of StarWind".
  3. ↑ Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
  4. ↑ David Marshall (5 June 2009). "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
  5. ↑ Dave Simpson (21 May 2024). "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Infostor.
  6. ↑ Rod Trent (2 June 2014). "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". IT Pro Today.
  7. ↑ Greg Schulz. "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Data Center Journal.
  8. ↑ Trevor Pott (April 25, 2013). "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". The Register. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
  9. ↑ "StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record". VIrtualization How To. February 28, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
  10. 1 2 3 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.

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