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| Company type | Commercial |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Anton Kolomyeytsev ( CEO) |
| Products |
iSCSI Target NVMe over Fabrics Target De-duplication Engine Virtual tape library Appliance Hyperconverged Appliance Storage Appliance FCoE Initiator iSCSI Initiator NVMe over Fabrics Initiator ATA-over-Ethernet Initiator |
| Website |
www |
StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held Beverly, Massachusetts-based 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), with a round A of investment from venture capital firm ABRT. [2] [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 mid-April 2014, StarWind Software closed a round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital. [9]
In August 2015, StarWind announced a combined software-hardware product called HyperConverged Appliance. [10]
In April 2016, StarWind was selected by research firm Gartner as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms". [11]
In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware. [12] 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. [13] 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. [13] The company also reportedly doubled the salaries of employees who enlisted in the Ukrainian army. [13]
Products
StarWind develops standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform. [14] Its software defined storage software supports building iSCSI, [15] iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics ( NVMe-oF), [16] and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware. [17]
Its products include:
- StarWind HyperConverged Appliance - the company's HyperConverged Appliance bundles StarWind's VSAN software with third party server and storage hardware, along with storage management software and hypervisors such as from VMware or Hyper-V.
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) software - HCI software which allows customers to set up and operate a storage area network supporting clustering and multi-host access on any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows server. The software acts as the storage back end for virtualized servers such as VMware vSphere server and Microsoft Hyper-V, and also supports standard server applications requiring network storage, such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server. [15] Open source NVMe SPDK for Windows Server is used to support the NVMe-oF uplink protocol, together with iSCSI and iSER. [18]
- Free NAS & SAN - software for converting commodity servers into iSCSI and NFS/SMB3 targets. [19] [20]
- V2V Converter - a free converter allowing back and forth conversion of virtual storage files between VMware's open format Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) and Virtual Hard Disk (VHD), the format for Microsoft's hypervisor ( virtual machine system), Hyper-V. [6]
- P2V Migrator - a free tool for converting physical servers to various virtual machine formats. [21]
- StarWind VTL - a virtual tape library that can be used to replace tape drives with less expensive Serial ATA (SATA) drives, and offloading storage to public cloud, for long term storage. [22]
- StarWind iSCSI Accelerator – a driver that improves CPU utilization with multi-core CPUs, when used with Microsoft iSCSCI Initiator. [23]
- StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator – Windows software used to initiate the NVM Express open logical-device specification. It maps the NVMe driver over an RDMA or TCP network to make remote NVMe drives appear to be attached to a physical server. [18]
References
- ^ a b "Gartner's Top 10 Hyperconverged (HCI) Software Market Leaders". CRN. December 16, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
- ^ Chris Wolf. "iSCSI on the Cheap". Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine.
- ^ David Marshall (5 June 2009). "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
- ^ Dave Simpson. "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Infostor.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Padraig Belton (25 November 2014). "Tech sector leading Ukraine's pro-European revival". BBC News.
- ^ "Hyperconvergence: Hype and Promise". Virtualization Review. August 28, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms, 2016". Gartner.
- ^ "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)
- ^ Steve McMurray (29 October 2010). "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Jon William Toigo. "Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain". TechTarget.
- ^ a b "How is NVMe-oF doing? Part 3: StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator + Linux SPDK NVMe-oF Target". Hyper-V Blog. August 12, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind Free NAS & SAN For VMware vSphere Released". ESX Virtualization. April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Rick Vanover (23 June 2023). "Network-based storage options for robust home labs". TechRepublic.
- ^ "StarWind V2V Converter and P2V Migrator As a Hypervisor Switch". ESX Virtualization. June 1, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind Virtual Tape Library Overview". IT Central Station. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind has set hyperconvergence performance record. Let's get behind the scenes". Hyper-V Blog. October 2, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
External links
- Software companies based in Massachusetts
- Software companies established in 2008
- American companies established in 2008
- 2008 establishments in the United States
- 2008 establishments in Massachusetts
- Companies based in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Beverly, Massachusetts
- Privately held companies based in Massachusetts
- Software companies of the United States
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| Company type | Commercial |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software, Storage virtualization, Software-defined storage |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Anton Kolomyeytsev ( CEO) |
| Products |
iSCSI Target NVMe over Fabrics Target De-duplication Engine Virtual tape library Appliance Hyperconverged Appliance Storage Appliance FCoE Initiator iSCSI Initiator NVMe over Fabrics Initiator ATA-over-Ethernet Initiator |
| Website |
www |
StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held Beverly, Massachusetts-based 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), with a round A of investment from venture capital firm ABRT. [2] [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 mid-April 2014, StarWind Software closed a round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital. [9]
In August 2015, StarWind announced a combined software-hardware product called HyperConverged Appliance. [10]
In April 2016, StarWind was selected by research firm Gartner as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms". [11]
In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware. [12] 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. [13] 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. [13] The company also reportedly doubled the salaries of employees who enlisted in the Ukrainian army. [13]
Products
StarWind develops standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform. [14] Its software defined storage software supports building iSCSI, [15] iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics ( NVMe-oF), [16] and NFSv3/v4 and SMB3 NAS using commodity hardware. [17]
Its products include:
- StarWind HyperConverged Appliance - the company's HyperConverged Appliance bundles StarWind's VSAN software with third party server and storage hardware, along with storage management software and hypervisors such as from VMware or Hyper-V.
- Virtual SAN (VSAN) software - HCI software which allows customers to set up and operate a storage area network supporting clustering and multi-host access on any standard 64-bit or 32-bit Windows server. The software acts as the storage back end for virtualized servers such as VMware vSphere server and Microsoft Hyper-V, and also supports standard server applications requiring network storage, such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server. [15] Open source NVMe SPDK for Windows Server is used to support the NVMe-oF uplink protocol, together with iSCSI and iSER. [18]
- Free NAS & SAN - software for converting commodity servers into iSCSI and NFS/SMB3 targets. [19] [20]
- V2V Converter - a free converter allowing back and forth conversion of virtual storage files between VMware's open format Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) and Virtual Hard Disk (VHD), the format for Microsoft's hypervisor ( virtual machine system), Hyper-V. [6]
- P2V Migrator - a free tool for converting physical servers to various virtual machine formats. [21]
- StarWind VTL - a virtual tape library that can be used to replace tape drives with less expensive Serial ATA (SATA) drives, and offloading storage to public cloud, for long term storage. [22]
- StarWind iSCSI Accelerator – a driver that improves CPU utilization with multi-core CPUs, when used with Microsoft iSCSCI Initiator. [23]
- StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator – Windows software used to initiate the NVM Express open logical-device specification. It maps the NVMe driver over an RDMA or TCP network to make remote NVMe drives appear to be attached to a physical server. [18]
References
- ^ a b "Gartner's Top 10 Hyperconverged (HCI) Software Market Leaders". CRN. December 16, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
- ^ Chris Wolf. "iSCSI on the Cheap". Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine.
- ^ David Marshall (5 June 2009). "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
- ^ Dave Simpson. "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". Infostor.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Padraig Belton (25 November 2014). "Tech sector leading Ukraine's pro-European revival". BBC News.
- ^ "Hyperconvergence: Hype and Promise". Virtualization Review. August 28, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms, 2016". Gartner.
- ^ "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)
- ^ Steve McMurray (29 October 2010). "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Jon William Toigo. "Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain". TechTarget.
- ^ a b "How is NVMe-oF doing? Part 3: StarWind NVMe-oF Initiator + Linux SPDK NVMe-oF Target". Hyper-V Blog. August 12, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind Free NAS & SAN For VMware vSphere Released". ESX Virtualization. April 7, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ Rick Vanover (23 June 2023). "Network-based storage options for robust home labs". TechRepublic.
- ^ "StarWind V2V Converter and P2V Migrator As a Hypervisor Switch". ESX Virtualization. June 1, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind Virtual Tape Library Overview". IT Central Station. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
- ^ "StarWind has set hyperconvergence performance record. Let's get behind the scenes". Hyper-V Blog. October 2, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
External links
- Software companies based in Massachusetts
- Software companies established in 2008
- American companies established in 2008
- 2008 establishments in the United States
- 2008 establishments in Massachusetts
- Companies based in Essex County, Massachusetts
- Beverly, Massachusetts
- Privately held companies based in Massachusetts
- Software companies of the United States