StorSimple
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| Private | |
| Industry | Data storage |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California |
Key people |
Co-founder & CEO: Ursheet Parikh Co-founder & President: Guru Pangal VP of Marketing: Mark Weiner VP of Sales: Steve Querner |
| Website | www.StorSimple.com |
StorSimple was a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, marketing cloud storage.
History
StorSimple was funded by venture capital from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield Fund for a total of $31.5 million. It was founded in 2009 by former Cisco Systems and Brocade Communications Systems executives Ursheet Parikh and Guru Pangal.[1][2]
StorSimple marketed a computer appliance called Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS). Their approach claimed to integrate primary storage data deduplication, automated tiered storage of data (across local and cloud storage), data compression, encryption, and significantly faster data backup and disaster recovery times. StorSimple is certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and VMware. It could be called a cloud storage gateway.
The appliance had an iSCSI interface using 10 Gigabit Ethernet and used serial ATA disks as well as solid-state drives.[3]
On October 16, 2012, Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple.[1][4] It was finalized by November 15.[5]
Recognition
- Gartner Research "Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies"
- Storage Magazine Gold Award for 2011 Product of the Year, storage systems category[6]
- Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011
- Grand Prize for Best of Show – Interop Japan 2011
- CRN 10 Coolest Storage Startups[7] / Emerging Vendors 2012
- Most Promising Cloud Solution at the UP Cloud Computing Conference
- Best Storage Hardware by SQL Server Magazine 2011
- Dow Jones/VentureWire "Top 50 Startups to Watch” 2010 (only cloud storage on list)[8]
See also
References
- 1 2 Christina Farr (October 16, 2012). "With StorSimple acquisition, Microsoft turns up the heat on Rackspace, Amazon". Venture Beat. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ Mike Volpi (October 17, 2012). "Secrets to Success in a Complex Enterprise Market". Index Ventures. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ Joseph F. Kovar (June 3, 2010). "StorSimple Intros Hybrid SSD-SATA-Cloud Storage". CRN. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ Michael Park (October 16, 2012). "Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Acquire StorSimple". Microsoft. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ Ursheet Parikh (November 15, 2012). "Microsoft Acquires StorSimple". Blog. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Best data storage products 2011: Storage systems". SearchStorage. Archived from the original on February 21, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ Joseph F. Kovar (July 10, 2012). "The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2012 (So Far)". CRN. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ↑ "VentureWire’s FASTech Conference Spotlights Most Promising Start-Ups". Wall Street Journal work= Venture Capital Dispatch blog. October 12, 2010. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- CIO - StorSimple Extends Portfolio of Cloud-Connected Storage Solutions
- Infostor - Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Storage: Real Cloud for Real Data
- Network World - StorSimple Emerges from the Clouds
- The Register - StorSimple in swerve towards biz data
