Storage Made Easy

Storage Made Easy
Private
Industry Cloud service
Founded London, United Kingdom (2008)
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
Parent Vehera Ltd.
Website storagemadeeasy.com

Storage Made Easy (SME) is a cloud service broker for data that federates access to files stored in private, public, or SaaS clouds. The company is most well known for providing a common place for users to park cloud data stored with multiple vendors.[1][2][3]

Storage Made Easy is a subsidiary of Vehera Ltd., a company based in London, United Kingdom.[1][4] The company operates out of offices in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Moldova.[1][4]

History

Storage Made Easy was founded in 2008 and raised $1 million in seed funding from IDJ Private Equity Investments. Though founded in the United Kingdom, Storage Made Easy focused on the US market for the first two years of service.[5]

Q4 2010 was the first quarter in which Storage Made Easy posted a profit.[6] Also at this time, Storage Made Easy obtained a round of growth equity investments. The identity of the investment firm involved was not publicized.[1][6]

In 2011, Storage Made Easy raised another $1 million funding round from IDJ.[7]

Originally known as SMEStorage, the company rebranded its title in October 2012 to Storage Made Easy.[8] In late October 2012, Storage Made Easy replaced CEO Ian Osborne with Jim Liddle,[9] who had previously been in charge of GigaSpaces European business. Osborne now serves as Storage Made Easy’s chairman.[9]

Product

Storage Made Easy provides a cloud service broker platform and related services either as SaaS or a hybrid on-premise solution.[1][2]

Storage Made Easy aggregates over 35 cloud data services such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, OpenStack, HP Object Storage, allowing users to access these programs in a single application.[2][3][10][11] Storage Made Easy provides native OS and Mobile clients, which allow users easy access to their federated data while promoting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) capabilities.[3][12]

The files that a user can access via Storage Made Easy are not duplicated on Storage Made Easy servers.[4][8][13] The files continue to reside on the storage platform to which they were uploaded.[4][8][13] The Storage Made Easy application works with storage clouds including Google Drive, Amazon S3, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, RackSpace Cloud Files, Gmail, and FTPs clouds.[3][14][15][16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Steve O'Hear (January 10, 2011). "SMEStorage receives capital investment to let businesses move their fileserver to the cloud". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Derek Schauland (November 1, 2011). "Product Review: A Bigger Cloud with SMEStorage". Redmond Mag. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Derek Schauland (July 27, 2011). "Access multiple cloud accounts with SMEStorage app for iPad". TechRepublic. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "A Cloud Data Platform". Storage Made Easy. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ "SMEStorage announces Excelian as a new customer win". Excelian Limited. September 29, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Capital Injection for SMEStorage". Storage Newsletter. January 12, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ "UK SMEStorage Got $1 Million Growth Equity Investment Round". Storage Newsletter. December 5, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Adam (October 11, 2012). "SMEStorage Rebrands and Focuses on the Hybrid Cloud Market". iPadModo. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Storage Made Easy Announces New CEO Jim Liddle". What About Mac. October 30, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  10. ↑ "SMEStorage Shines in Cloud Storage". Virtualization Review. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  11. ↑ Rahul Arora (December 20, 2010). "SMEStorage Updates Linux Desktop Cloud Tooling". InfoTech Spotlight. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Company Overview of Vehera Ltd". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "iSMEStorage now features fee WebDav over any Cloud for iWork editing". Slap App. February 8, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  14. ↑ "CloudDav app extends iPad's iWork". Macnn. September 24, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ Stuart Johnston (March 31, 2011). "Cloud Storage Provider Adds FTP Features". Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  16. ↑ "SMEStorage adds BaseCamp support to its federated Cloud File Server". iPhone Life. May 8, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2013.

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