StarWind Software
StarWind Software, Inc. is a software and hardware appliance company based in Beverly, Massachusetts specializing in storage virtualization and software-defined storage. Originally held privately, it was acquired by DataCore Software in May 2025.
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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 (Organizational founder), Dave Zabrowski (CEO) |
| Website | www.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
[edit]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.[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.[11]
Products
[edit]StarWind develops "standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform".[12] Its software-defined storage software supports building iSCSI,[13] iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF),[14] and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gartner's Top 10 Hyperconverged (HCI) Software Market Leaders". CRN. December 16, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Zwets, Berry (2025-05-21). "DataCore completes HCI offering with acquisition of StarWind".
- ^ Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
- ^ David Marshall (5 June 2009). "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
- ^ Dave Simpson (21 May 2024). "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Infostor.
- ^ Rod Trent (2 June 2014). "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". IT Pro Today.
- ^ Greg Schulz. "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Data Center Journal.
- ^ Trevor Pott (April 25, 2013). "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". The Register. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind Virtual SAN Software HCI Performance Record". VIrtualization How To. February 28, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- ^ a b c Somerville, Heather (March 20, 2022). "Ukraine Tech Startups Pivot From Software Code to Rescue Plans". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved March 20, 2022.(subscription required)
- ^ Zwets, Berry (2025-05-21). "DataCore completes HCI offering with acquisition of StarWind".
- ^ Steve McMurray (29 October 2010). "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
- ^ Greg Steen (8 September 2016). "Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals". Microsoft TechNet.
- ^ Ray Lucchesi (26 September 2018). "Screaming IOP performance with StarWind's new NVMeoF software & Optane SSDs". Ray on Storage.