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 SAN software. In 2013, hard drive manufacturer
Western Digital began integrating StarWind's iSCSI engine with some of the company's
Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliances. 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
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for HCI software. Once the invasion was imminent, the company helped its employees move out of the country, including relocating 60 of the 180 workers from its
Kyiv, Ukraine office to
Wroclaw, Poland. ==Products==