StarWind Software

StarWind Software, Inc. is a computer software and hardware appliance company specializing in storage virtualization and building iSCSI, iSER, NVMe over Fabrics,[1] Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) SAN, and NFS and SMB3 NAS as well using commodity hardware.[2] StarWind started offering combined software-hardware product called "HyperConverged Appliance"[3] which is aggregation of Dell and SuperMicro servers,[4][5] hypervisor from Microsoft and VMware, StarWind own storage virtualization software[6][7] doing DRAM and flash caching, tiering and log-structuring for performance increase reasons,[8] Veeam Software VM backup and replication, VM management and so on,[9] essentially a "private-cloud-in-a-box".[10][11]

StarWind Software Inc.
TypeCommercial
IndustryComputer software
Founded2008
Headquarters
Middleton, Massachusetts
,
U.S.
Key people
Anton Kolomyeytsev (CEO)
ProductsiSCSI 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
Websitewww.starwindsoftware.com

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.[12] It started providing early adopters with initially free Software Defined Storage offerings in 2009 [13][14] and doing this up to now.[15][16] In mid-April 2014 StarWind Software closed round B of investment from Almaz Capital and AVentures Capital.[17][18] StarWind is headquartered in Middleton, Massachusetts, United States. StarWind iSCSI SAN software had reviews[19] such as ZDNet,[20] OpenBench Labs,[21] AnandTech,[22] TechRepublic,[23][24] and Microsoft TechNet.[25] In 2013 Western Digital had OEM-ed StarWind iSCSI engine for their WD Sentinel DX4000 and RX4100 lines of NAS appliances.[26] In April 2016 StarWind Software was selected by Gartner as one of the "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms" for year of 2016.[27] In 2019 StarWind finally made it to Gartner's Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) [28] [29] after teaming up with Intel, Mellanox and SuperMicro and defeating Microsoft's hyperconverged solution (S2D), StarWind utilized NVMe-oF protocol and managed to squeeze 2x more IOPS using similar but weaker cluster configuration.[30] [31]

References
  1. Ray Lucchesi. "Screaming IOP performance with StarWind's new NVMeoF software & Optane SSDs". Ray on Storage.
  2. Steve McMurray. "How To Break Free From Tier 1 SAN Vendors". InformationWeek.
  3. Jon William Toigo. "Hyperconvergence: Hype and Promise". Virtualization Review.
  4. Paul Ferrill. "Super Micro SuperServer Delivers the Power". ServerWatch.
  5. Chris Mellor. "Cisco doesn't make hyper-converged gear, but if it did, it'd probably look like this". The Register.
  6. Jasmine McTigue. "DIY Storage: Picking the Right SAN Software". Network Computing.
  7. Howard Marks. "Defining Software-Defined Storage". Network Computing.
  8. Jon William Toigo. "The struggle between virtual machine performance and storage". TechTarget.
  9. Jon William Toigo. "Software-defined storage vendors team, fate uncertain". TechTarget.
  10. Paul Schnackenburg. "My Own Private Cloud". Virtualization Review.
  11. Trevor Pott. "SME storage challengers emerge one feature at a time". The Register.
  12. Adrien Henni. "Far from politics, Russian money still fuels US startups". East-West Digital News.
  13. David Marshall. "StarWind provides two free virtualization solutions". InfoWorld.
  14. Dave Simpson. "StarWind offers free iSCSI software". InfoWorld.
  15. Rod Trent. "Converting Hyper-V VMs to VMware". Windows IT Pro.
  16. Greg Schulz. "DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget". Data Center Journal.
  17. "StarWind Secures Funding for Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage Development". TheVARGuy.
  18. Padraig Belton. "Tech sector leading Ukraine's pro-European revival". BBC News.
  19. Chris Wolf. "iSCSI on the Cheap". Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine.
  20. Dan Kusnetzky. "StarWind Software claims 'Zero to SAN in 30 Minutes'". ZDNet.
  21. Jack Fegreus. "How to jumpstart SAN + LAN convergence". InfoStor.
  22. Johan De Gelas. "Affordable storage for the SME". AnandTech.
  23. Brad Bird. "Building a robust test-lab at home with virtualization". TechRepublic.
  24. Rick Vanover. "Network-based storage options for robust home labs". TechRepublic.
  25. Greg Steen. "Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals". Microsoft TechNet.
  26. Trevor Pott. "Western Digital Sentinel DX4000". The Register.
  27. "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms, 2016". Gartner.
  28. "Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure". Gartner.
  29. "VMware Once Again a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure". VMware.
  30. "True Record Setting Hyperconverged Performance". Mellanox.
  31. "The new HCI industry record: 13.7 million IOPS with Windows Server 2019 and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory". Microsoft.
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