StarWind Software Secures $3.25M Series B Funding from Almaz Capital, ABRT Venture, AVentures Capital

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"Sales of StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V have been growing over 100% a year, because the product is simpler to use, more affordable to deploy, and provides compelling value for companies large and small by eliminating the need for hardware components and specialized administrative support," Galitsky explained.With its upcoming release StarWind SAN will become the first solution running on Windows platform that creates clusters of multiple hypervisor hosts without separate physical shared storage.Added Veeam Software CEO and ABRT Partner Ratmir Timashev who led the Series A investment, "StarWind offers a great value proposition for Windows Server administrators who are virtualizing on Hyper-V platform.Alexander (Sasha) Galitsky, a general partner at Almaz Capital, will join the company’s board.Microsoft’s Hyper-V is emerging as the leading virtualization platform for SMBs, with growth similar to that of VMware’s ESX in enterprise space last decade."Sales of StarWind VSAN for Hyper-V have been growing over 100% a year, because the product is simpler to use, more affordable to deploy, and provides compelling value for companies large and small by eliminating the need for hardware components and specialized administrative support," Galitsky explained.

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Amount $3.3M Total raised
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Date April 15, 2014 Announcement date
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Investors AVentures Capital, Almaz Capital Lead investors
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Company http://www.starwindsoftware.com Funded company

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Software-Defined Storage Hyperconverged Infrastructure Backup Software

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