StarWind Software, Inc. is a privately held

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-based computer software and hardware appliance company specializing in

storage virtualization In computer science, storage virtualization is "the process of presenting a logical view of the physical storage resources to" a host computer system, "treating all storage media (hard disk, optical disk, tape, etc.) in the enterprise as a sing ...

and

software-defined storage Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storag ...

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. It started providing early adopters with initially free software defined storage offerings in 2009, including its V2V (virtual-to-virtual) image converter and

iSCSI Internet Small Computer Systems Interface or iSCSI ( ) is an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. iSCSI provides block-level access to storage devices by carrying SCSI commands over a TCP/IP ...

SAN software. In 2013, hard drive manufacturer

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began integrating StarWind's iSCSI engine with some of the company's

Network Attached Storage Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients. In this context, the term "NAS" can refer to both the technology and systems ...

(NAS) appliances. In April 2016, StarWind was selected by research firm

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as one of its 2016 "Cool Vendors for Compute Platforms". In February 2020, StarWind's Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) software StarWind VSAN set performance benchmarks for off the shelf commodity hardware. In December, StarWind was named to

's Magic Quadrant for HCI software. In March 2022, the Wall Street Journal reported how the

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was affecting technology firms with a significant presence in Ukraine, including StarWind. Once the invasion was imminent, the company helped its employees move out of the country, including relocating 60 of the 180 workers from its

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office to Wroclaw, Poland. The company also reportedly doubled the salaries of employees who enlisted in the Ukrainian army. In May 2025, StarWind was acquired by DataCore Software.

Products

StarWind develops "standards-based storage virtualization and management software that will run on any x86 platform". Its software-defined storage software supports building

, iSER, NVM Express over Fabrics (

NVMe-oF NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via the PCI Express bus. The ini ...

), and

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