Stratoscale

Stratoscale
Private
Industry Virtualization
Founded 2013
Founder Ariel Maislos, Etay Bogner
Headquarters Herzliya, Israel
Website www.stratoscale.com

Stratoscale is a software company offering software-defined data center technology, marketed with the term hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud computing capabilities.[1][2][3] Stratoscale combines compute, storage, and networking hardware with no additional third party software.[4][5]

History

Stratoscale was founded in 2013 by Ariel Maislos and Etay Bogner.[6][7][8] Stratoscale is headquartered in Israel[9] with offices in Herzliya and Haifa, and offices in North America in Sunnyvale, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York.[10] Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners.[11][12]

Stratoscale raised $70 million from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco,[13] Leslie Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk.[1][14][15][16][17]

Products

Stratoscale Symphony is marketed for software-defined data centers or hyper-converged infrastructure.[18][19] The software is intended to work on customers' hardware.[20][21] Stratoscale Symphony is available on subscription basis.[22][23] The Symphony suite may be deployed on commodity x86 servers to provide an Amazon Web Services (AWS) capability with the capacity to augment legacy VMware.[24][25][26] In 2016, Stratoscale released Symphony 3.[27][28]

Partner program

Stratoscale has channel partners, technology partners, and system partners. Channel partners consist of resellers, integrators, and distributors. Technology partners include CloudEndure, Cloudera, Docker,[20] Hortonworks, Intel,[7] Mellanox Technologies, Midokura, OpenStack,[29] and SanDisk.[14] System partners adjust for server configurations and environments. System partners include Cisco,[7] Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Infinidat, Lenovo,[30] and Supermicro.[31]

Marketing

References

  1. 1 2 Ben Kepes (4 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M To Hyper-Converge Infrastructure". Forbes. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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  5. ↑ David Shamah (7 November 2014). "3 Israeli firms get healthy dose of Intel Capital funds". Times of Israel. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  6. ↑ Chrostina Farr (28 October 2013). "Israeli entrepreneurs nab $10M for data center startup Stratoscale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 Joseph F. Kovar (4 November 2014). "Cisco, Intel Invest In Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Player Stratoscale". Crn.com. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "Stratoscale Raises $10 Million From Battery and BVP to Re-Think the Data Center". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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  10. ↑ "חברת Stratoscale של אריאל מייסלוס מגייסת 10 מיליון דולר מהקרנות באטרי ובסמר". Calcalist. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  11. ↑ "Stratoscale expands hyperconvergence market". 14 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  12. ↑ Adam Hughes. "Impact Awards: Vote for the best Software-Defined Infrastructure Product". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Inbal Orpaz (9 March 2015). "Cisco's Winning $1.5 Billion Bet on Israeli High-tech". Haaretz. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  14. 1 2 "Stratoscale bags $32m from Intel, Cisco, SanDisk". 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  15. ↑ Maria Deutscher (20 October 2015). "ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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  19. ↑ Niv Lilien (12 December 2014). "Stratoscale targets VMware with fresh approach to taking on the datacenter". Zdnet. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  20. 1 2 John Rath (10 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M to Build Docker-Supporting OpenStack Clouds on Commodity Servers". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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  22. ↑ Garry Kranz (4 February 2015). "How to make sense of the expanding hyper-converged market". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  23. ↑ George Leopold (1 May 2015). "OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  24. ↑ Gallant, John. (19 January 2017). Want to run your own Amazon 'region'? Stratoscale shows you how. Datacenters. InfoWorld.
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  26. ↑ John Moore. "Selling hyper-converged architecture: A channel primer". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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