StarWind Announces Spin-Off From Rocket Division
The provider of iSCSI SAN and storage virtualization software also secures first financial funding round.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on February 4, 2009 at 3:48 pmStarWind Software Inc., a provider of iSCSI SAN and Storage Virtualization software, announced their spin-off from Rocket Division Inc. and their first round of investor funding, led by ABRT Venture Fund. Rocket Division, a leader in storage solutions for the consumer and corporate markets will continue to serve the consumer market, while StarWind Software will be dedicated to developing storage software for small and midsize companies.
StarWind will expand their product offering capabilities, with a strong commitment to small and midsize companies, and will become an independent developer of StarWind product lines including iSCSI SAN (Storage Area Network) software solutions that have enterprise-class performance, reliability and manageability while still being affordable to SMBs. While StarWind products have been available globally via online sales, the investment by ABRT Venture Fund will help accelerate the company’s growth by hiring a new management team that will expand sales, channel distribution and marketing efforts.
Currently, their flagship product StarWind Server, a fourth generation iSCSI SAN software solution, installs on any Windows server and converts it into a scalable, reliable, high-performance SAN. It runs on existing, industry-standard infrastructure without the need for proprietary networking or storage systems. StarWind Server software will offer SMBs a cost-effective and very affordable SAN solution that protects data against failures.
"Based on their storage industry domain expertise and positive customer feedback, we feel that StarWind will be in a unique position to be a global leader in iSCSI SAN and Storage Virtualization markets," said Ratmir Timashev, a General Partner at ABRT Venture Fund. "StarWind solutions are ideally positioned to benefit from the significant growth trends in server virtualization in the SMB market with VMware ESX and ESXi as well as with Microsoft Hyper-V."
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The ABRT Venture Fund is also an investor into Acronis, a company where the CEO of StarWind was also previously the VP of corporate and business development.
The start-up has Russian connexions with co-founders Art Berman, who earned his master's degree in Economics from Moscow International Businesss Institute in 1997, and Anton Kolomeitsev, both of them iSCSI experts. In its board of directors, we remark the name of Ratmir Timashev, partner at ABRT Venture Fund, who got his master's degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1990.
StarWind Server is a software solution that converts a Windows server
into an iSCSI SAN and is designed for use
with VMware ESX and VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server clusters with database
applications such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange
and Microsoft SharePoint Server.
StarWind is a SAN solution that combines the
use of mirroring and replication,
CDP and snapshots, thin provisioning and VTL. No less!
"Since 2003, StarWind iSCSI target has been the solution of choice for
thousands of customers in over 50 countries, from SMBs, to governments, to the Fortune 1000 clients," according to the company
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