DataStax

DataStax
Type Private
Founded April 2010, Texas, USA.
Headquarters Santa Clara, CA, USA
Key people Billy Bosworth (CEO)
Jonathan Ellis (Co-Founder)
Matt Pfeil (Co-Founder)
Industry Database Technologies
Website DataStax.com

DataStax, Inc. is a computer software company based in Santa Clara, California.

DataStax's business model centers around selling an enterprise distribution of the open-source Apache Cassandra project which includes extensions [1] to Apache Cassandra, Analytics [2] and Search [3] functionality. The enterprise distribution comes with 24x7 customer support.[4] In addition, DataStax offers professional services and training directly [5] and through an extensive partner network.[6]

History

The company's two founders, Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, were employees of Rackspace. They left Rackspace in 2010 to found DataStax (original name: Riptano). By mid 2013, the company had acquired more than $84 million in funding from venture capital firms,[7] and launched into Europe.

Worldwide

The original eight-person team moved into rented office space in San Mateo, California in early 2011. In March 2014, the company moved to a 36,000 square foot office space to accommodate the growing workforce.[8]

The company has satellite offices in Austin, Texas, and an established UK office in west London to service the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.[9]

Company

DataStax is listed as one of 20 pre-IPO companies to watch by IDG.[10]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/cassandra#navtop
  2. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/analytics#navtop
  3. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/datastax-enterprise/search#navtop
  4. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/support
  5. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/what-we-offer/products-services/consulting
  6. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/partners
  7. ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/with-ipo-in-its-sights-datastax-raises-45m-for-fast-growing-nosql-database-platform/
  8. ↑ http://www.datastax.com/2014/03/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new
  9. ↑ https://gigaom.com/2013/03/27/datastax-pushes-into-europe-with-new-london-based-subsidiary
  10. ↑ http://www.slideshare.net/IDGConnect/20-pre-ipo-companies-in-2014-b2-b-tech