computer software founded 2008 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 starwind started offering combined software hardware product called hyperconverged appliance 2 which is aggregation of dell and supermicro servers 3 4 hypervisor from microsoft and vmware starwind own storage virtualization software 5 6 doing dram and flash caching tiering and log structuring for performance increase reasons 7 veeam software vm backup and replication vm management and so on 8 essentially a private cloud in a box . 9 10 history edit 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 . 11 it started providing early adopters with initially free software defined storage offerings in 2009 12 13 and doing this up to now . 14 15 in mid april 2014 starwind software closed round b of investment from almaz capital and aventures capital . 16 17 starwind is headquartered in middleton massachusetts united states . starwind iscsi san software had reviews 18 such as zdnet 19 openbench labs 20 anandtech 21 techrepublic 22 23 and microsoft technet . 24 in 2013 western digital had oem ed starwind iscsi engine for their wd sentinel dx4000 and rx4100 lines of nas appliances . 25 in april 2016 starwind software was selected by gartner as one of the cool vendors for compute platforms for year of 2016 . 26 references edit steve mcmurray . how to break free from tier 1 san vendors . informationweek . jon william 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