StarWind Software

StarWind Software Inc.
Commercial
Industry Computer software
Founded 2008
Founder Artem Berman, Anton Kolomyeytsev
Headquarters Middleton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Products iSCSI Target
De-duplication Engine
Virtual tape library Appliance
Hyperconverged Appliance
FCoE Initiator
iSCSI Initiator
ATA-over-Ethernet Initiator
Website www.starwindsoftware.com

StarWind Software, Inc. is a computer software company specializing in storage virtualization and building iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) SAN, and NFS and SMB3 NAS as well using commodity hardware.[1] Primary use case covered is VM, especially VDI,[2] Microsoft Exchange Server,[3] and Microsoft SQL Server [4] storage for Hyper-V,[5] VMware [6][7] and Xen,[8][9] and HA and DR scenarios.[10] Recently StarWind started offering combined software-hardware solution called "HyperConverged Appliance" [11][12] which is aggregation of Dell and SuperMicro servers,[13][14] hypervisor from Microsoft and VMware, StarWind own mature storage virtualization software [15][16][17][18] doing aggressive DRAM and flash caching, tiering and log-structuring for performance increase reasons,[19] Veeam Software VM backup and replication, VM management and so on.,[20] essentially a "private-cloud-in-a-box".[21][22]

History

StarWind Software is a privately held company which began in 2008 as a spin-off from Rocket Division Software, Ltd. (founded in 2003), with a round A of investment from ABRT Venture.[23] It started providing early adopters with initially free software offerings in 2009 [24][25] and doing this up to now.[26][27][28][29]

In mid-April 2014 StarWind Software closed round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital.[30][31][32][33][34] StarWind is headquartered in Middleton, Massachusetts, USA.

StarWind iSCSI SAN software had reviews [35] such as ZDNet,[36] OpenBench Labs,[37] AnandTech,[38] TechRepublic,[39][40] and Microsoft TechNet.[41] In 2009 StarWind Software won the Sprout Award from Everything Channel at XChange '09.[42]

In 2013 Western Digital had OEM-ed StarWind iSCSI engine for their WD Sentinel DX4000 and RX4100 lines of NAS appliances.[43]

In December 2013 StarWind Software nearly won both "Storage Virtualization Product of the Year" and "Virtualization Management Product of the Year" titles from SVC Awards with Emulex LightPulse Gen 5 Fibre Channel HBA by Emulex and Cisco UCS Director (formerly Cloupia) by Cisco products in front.[44]

Late 2014 StarWind Software was a runner up for "Storage Virtualization Product of the Year" with Zerto replication suite winning nomination.[45]

In September 2015 StarWind, IBM and FalconStor had one confirmed customer transfer from their solutions to DataCore.[46]

In 2015 StarWind was referenced as one of the rapidly growing hypercoverged companies together with Nutanix and SimpliVity.[47]

In 2015 StarWind Software was nominated and came to final for "Virtualization / Software Defined Storage Product of the Year".[48]

References

  1. ↑ "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". Steve McMurray @ InformationWeek.
  2. ↑ "Whatever Happened to the VDI Revolution?". Jon William Toigo @ Virtualization Review.
  3. ↑ "Exchange 2007 SP1 SCC using Server 2008 StarWind iSCSI ". Elan Shudnow @ ShudNow.NET.
  4. ↑ "Set Up a SQL Server 2008 Cluster". Denny Cherry @ SQL Server Pro.
  5. ↑ "Hyper-V Live Migration: A Step-by-Step Guide". Michael Otey @ Windows IT Pro.
  6. ↑ "Low-cost VMware shared storage options, decision factors". David Davis @ TechTarget.
  7. ↑ "Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Which One's Better for Your Private Cloud?". Paul Schnackenburg @ Virtualization Review.
  8. ↑ "Handling Virtual Storage Challenges". Drew Robb @ Enterprise Storage Forum.
  9. ↑ "Open Source Storage Options". Jimmy Ray Purser @ Network World.
  10. ↑ "Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in Hyper-V". Chris Evans @ Computer Wheekly.
  11. ↑ "Hyper-converged infrastructure systems deliver storage in a bundle". Chris Evans @ TechTarget.
  12. ↑ "Hyperconvergence: Hype and Promise". Jon William Toigo @ Virtualization Review.
  13. ↑ "Super Micro SuperServer Delivers the Power". Paul Ferrill @ ServerWatch'.
  14. ↑ "Cisco doesn't make hyper-converged gear, but if it did, it'd probably look like this". Chris Mellor @ The Register.
  15. ↑ "Let... the SAN shine: 2013 – the year of virtual storage area networks". Trevor Pott @ The Register.
  16. ↑ "DIY Storage: Picking the Right SAN Software". Jasmine McTigue @ Network Computing.
  17. ↑ "Software-based replication techniques break hardware chains". Chris Evans @ TechTarget.
  18. ↑ "Defining Software-Defined Storage". Howard Marks @ Network Computing.
  19. ↑ "The struggle between virtual machine performance and storage". Jon William Toigo @ TechTarget.
  20. ↑ "Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain". Jon William Toigo @ TechTarget.
  21. ↑ "My Own Private Cloud". Paul Schnackenburg @ Virtualization Review.
  22. ↑ "SME storage challengers emerge one feature at a time". Trevor Pott @ The Register.
  23. ↑ "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". Adrien Henni @ East-West Digital News.
  24. ↑ "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". David Marshall @ InfoWorld.
  25. ↑ "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Dave Simpson @ InfoWorld.
  26. ↑ "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". Rod Trent @ Windows IT Pro.
  27. ↑ "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Greg Schulz @ Data Center Journal.
  28. ↑ "Windows Server 2012: Building a Two-Node Failover Cluster". Michael Otey @ Windows IT Pro.
  29. ↑ "How to perform a virtual desktop migration between Type 1 hypervisors". Mike Nelson @ TechTarget.
  30. ↑ "ABRT Venture Fund Portfolio". ABRT Venture Fund.
  31. ↑ "StarWind Secures Funding for Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage Development". TheVARGuy.
  32. ↑ "AVentures Capital Invests in Ukrainian Startups Augmented Pixels and StarWind". Natasha Starkell @ GoalEurope.
  33. ↑ "Boston Roundup: Consumer United, StarWind, ezCater, Threat Stack". Curt Woodward @ XConomy.
  34. ↑ "Tech sector leading Ukraine's pro-European revival". Padraig Belton @ BBC News.
  35. ↑ "iSCSI on the Cheap". Chris Wolf @ Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine.
  36. ↑ "StarWind Software claims "Zero to SAN in 30 Minutes"". Dan Kusnetzky @ ZDNet.
  37. ↑ "How to jumpstart SAN + LAN convergence". Jack Fegreus @ InfoStor.
  38. ↑ "Affordable storage for the SME". Johan De Gelas @ AnandTech.
  39. ↑ "Building a robust test-lab at home with virtualization". Brad Bird @ TechRepublic.
  40. ↑ "Network-based storage options for robust home labs". Rick Vanover @TechRepublic.
  41. ↑ "Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals.". Greg Steen @ Microsoft TechNet.
  42. ↑ "8 Hot New Startups At XChange '09". CRN Staff @ CRN.
  43. ↑ "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". Trevor Pott @ The Register'.
  44. ↑ "SVC Awards 2013 Winners and Runners Up". SVC Awards.
  45. ↑ "SVC Awards 2014 Winners and Runners Up". SVC Awards.
  46. ↑ "Bradford Grammar School". Antony Adshead @ Computer Weekly.
  47. ↑ "Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn". Simon Robinson @ Computer Weekly.
  48. ↑ "SVC Awards 2015 Short List". SVC Awards.

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