StarWind Software

StarWind Software Inc.

Type	Commercial
Industry	Computer software
Founded	2008
Founder	Artem Berman, Anton Kolomyeytsev
Headquarters	Middleton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people	Anton Kolomyeytsev (CEO)
Products	iSCSI Target De-duplication Engine Virtual tape library Appliance Hyperconverged Appliance Storage 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 Defined Storage 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 September 2015 StarWind, IBM and FalconStor had one confirmed customer transfer from their solutions to DataCore.^[44]

Awards and Recognition

• 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.^[45]

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

• In April 2016 StarWind Software was selected by Gartner as one of the "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms" for year of 2016. ^[49]

References

1. Steve McMurray. "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
2. Jon William Toigo. "Whatever Happened to the VDI Revolution?". Virtualization Review.
3. Elan Shudnow. "Exchange 2007 SP1 SCC using Server 2008 StarWind iSCSI ". ShudNow.NET.
4. Denny Cherry. "Set Up a SQL Server 2008 Cluster". SQL Server Pro.
5. Michael Otey. "Hyper-V Live Migration: A Step-by-Step Guide". Windows IT Pro.
6. David Davis. "Low-cost VMware shared storage options, decision factors". TechTarget.
7. Paul Schnackenburg. "Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Which One's Better for Your Private Cloud?". Virtualization Review.
8. Drew Robb. "Handling Virtual Storage Challenges". Enterprise Storage Forum.
9. Jimmy Ray Purser. "Open Source Storage Options". Network World.
10. Chris Evans. "Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in Hyper-V". Computer Weekly.
11. Chris Evans. "Hyper-converged infrastructure systems deliver storage in a bundle". TechTarget.
12. Jon William Toigo. "Hyperconvergence: Hype and Promise". Virtualization Review.
13. Paul Ferrill. "Super Micro SuperServer Delivers the Power". ServerWatch.
14. Chris Mellor. "Cisco doesn't make hyper-converged gear, but if it did, it'd probably look like this". The Register.
15. Trevor Pott. "Let... the SAN shine: 2013 – the year of virtual storage area networks". The Register.
16. Jasmine McTigue. "DIY Storage: Picking the Right SAN Software". Network Computing.
17. Chris Evans. "Software-based replication techniques break hardware chains". TechTarget.
18. Howard Marks. "Defining Software-Defined Storage". Network Computing.
19. Jon William Toigo. "The struggle between virtual machine performance and storage". TechTarget.
20. Jon William Toigo. "Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain". TechTarget.
21. Paul Schnackenburg. "My Own Private Cloud". Virtualization Review.
22. Trevor Pott. "SME storage challengers emerge one feature at a time". The Register.
23. Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
24. David Marshall. "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
25. Dave Simpson. "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". InfoWorld.
26. Rod Trent. "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". Windows IT Pro.
27. Greg Schulz. "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Data Center Journal.
28. Michael Otey. "Windows Server 2012: Building a Two-Node Failover Cluster". Windows IT Pro.
29. Mike Nelson. "How to perform a virtual desktop migration between Type 1 hypervisors". TechTarget.
30. "ABRT Venture Fund Portfolio". ABRT Venture Fund.
31. "StarWind Secures Funding for Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage Development". TheVARGuy.
32. Natasha Starkell. "AVentures Capital Invests in Ukrainian Startups Augmented Pixels and StarWind". GoalEurope.
33. Curt Woodward. "Boston Roundup: Consumer United, StarWind, ezCater, Threat Stack". XConomy.
34. Padraig Belton. "Tech sector leading Ukraine's pro-European revival". BBC News.
35. Chris Wolf. "iSCSI on the Cheap". Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine.
36. Dan Kusnetzky. "StarWind Software claims 'Zero to SAN in 30 Minutes'". ZDNet.
37. Jack Fegreus. "How to jumpstart SAN + LAN convergence". InfoStor.
38. Johan De Gelas. "Affordable storage for the SME". AnandTech.
39. Brad Bird. "Building a robust test-lab at home with virtualization". TechRepublic.
40. Rick Vanover. "Network-based storage options for robust home labs". TechRepublic.
41. Greg Steen. "Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals.". Microsoft TechNet.
42. "8 Hot New Startups At XChange '09". CRN.
43. Trevor Pott. "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". The Register.
44. Antony Adshead. "Bradford Grammar School". Computer Weekly.
45. "SVC Awards 2013 Winners and Runners Up". SVC Awards.
46. "SVC Awards 2014 Winners and Runners Up". SVC Awards.
47. Simon Robinson. "Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn". Computer Weekly.
48. "SVC Awards 2015 Short List". SVC Awards.
49. "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms, 2016". Gartner.

External links

• Official website