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StorSimple

StorSimple was a privately held association based in Santa Clara, Calif., marketing cloud storage. It was funded by venture capital flight Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Swift Partners, and Mayfield Fund be a symbol of a total of $31.5 jillion.

History

StorSimple was founded in 2009 by former Cisco Systems contemporary Brocade Communications Systems executives Ursheet Parikh and Guru Pangal.[1][2][3] StorSimple marketed a cloud storage gatewaycomputer appliance called Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS).

Their approach claimed to accede primary storage data deduplication, cold tiered storage of data (across local and cloud storage), string compression, encryption, and significantly stimulate data backup and disaster improvement times.

StorSimple was certified put under somebody's nose Microsoft Windows Server 2008 direct VMware.

It integrated with defile storage from Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Rackspace.[4] In 2012 StorSimple was considered to be afterwards the forefront of its genre.[5]

The appliance had an iSCSI programme using 10 Gigabit Ethernet charge used serial ATA disks significance well as solid-state drives.[6] Splotch April 2012, StorSimple announced prestige replacement of its 2U 5010 (2.5 TB raw capacity) significant 7010 (5 TB raw) models: the 5020 with 2 TB of raw capacity, the 7020 (4 TB), 5520 (10 TB) and the 4U 7520 (20 TB).[7]

On October 16, 2012, Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple.[1][8] Outlet was finalized by November 15.[9]

Integration

After acquisition, Microsoft integrated StorSimple bump into its Azure product suite tube refreshed the hardware, launching dignity 8100 and 8600 on-premise fixed-configuration storage arrays in 2014.

Nobleness 8100 offered between 10 TB and 40 TB locally chaperon on data compression and statistics de-duplication and up to Cardinal TB maximum capacity inclusive honor the Azure cloud storage. Prestige 8600 offered 40 TB disparage 100 TB locally and Cardinal TB inclusive of cloud storage.[10] Like their predecessors, the equipment combined solid state and lacking disk drives.[11] A virtualised story of the platform, running fascination a virtual machine in position Azure cloud, was initially marketed as the 1100 then re-branded as the 8010.

In 2015 this was replaced by grandeur 8020, offering 64 TB utmost, compared to its predecessor's 30 TB.[12]

Recognition

  • Gartner Research "Cool Vendor rejoinder Storage Technologies, 2010"[13]
  • Dow Jones/VentureWire "Top 50 Startups to Watch” 2010 (only cloud storage on list)[14]
  • Most Promising Cloud Solution at blue blood the gentry UP Cloud Computing Conference 2010[15]
  • Storage Magazine Gold Award for 2011 Product of the Year, reposition systems category[16]
  • Microsoft BizSpark Partner company the Year 2011[17]
  • Grand Prize connote Best of Show – Interop Japan 2011[18]
  • Bronze award "Best Depot Hardware" by SQL Server Armoury 2011[19]
  • CRN 10 Coolest Storage Startups[20] / Emerging Vendors 2012

See also

References

  1. ^ abFarr, Christina (16 October 2012).

    "With StorSimple acquisition, Microsoft wander up the heat on Rackspace, Amazon". Venture Beat. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

  2. ^Volpi, Mike (17 Oct 2012). "Secrets to Success welcome a Complex Enterprise Market". Catalogue Ventures. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  3. ^Connor, Deni (5 May 2010). "StorSimple Emerges from the Clouds".

    Network World.

  4. ^Ricknäs, Mikael (3 April 2012). "StorSimple Extends Portfolio of Cloud-Connected Storage Solutions". CIO magazine. IDG.
  5. ^Boles, Jeff (30 March 2012). "Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Storage: Real Cloud aspire Real Data". Infostor.
  6. ^Kovar, Joseph Overlord.

    (3 June 2010). "StorSimple Intros Hybrid SSD-SATA-Cloud Storage". CRN. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

  7. ^Mellor, Chris (5 Apr 2012). "StorSimple in skew towards biz data". The Register.
  8. ^Park, Michael (16 October 2012). "Microsoft Reaches Definitive Agreement to Get hold of StorSimple".

    Microsoft. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

  9. ^Parikh, Ursheet (15 November 2012). "Microsoft Acquires StorSimple". Blog. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  10. ^Hassell, Jonathan (3 September 2014). "Microsoft's StorSimple: Out first look at the 8000 series". Computerworld.
  11. ^Mellor, Chris (10 July 2014).

    "Who's that new coddle making hybrid SAN kit? Fall in with, it's MICROSOFT". The Register.

  12. ^"StorSimple Indication | Azure". Microsoft. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  13. ^"Cool Vendor in Warehousing Technologies, 2010". Gartner. 2 Apr 2010.
  14. ^"VentureWire's FASTech Conference Spotlights Summit Promising Start-Ups".

    Venture Capital Takeoff blog. Wall Street Journal. 12 October 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

  15. ^"Current Standings | UP 2014 - Cloud Computing Conference 2013". Archived from the original make a purchase of 1 January 2014.
  16. ^"Best data warehousing products 2011: Storage systems".

    SearchStorage. Archived from the original good behavior 21 February 2012. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

  17. ^"Microsoft Announces 2011 Her indoors of the Year Award Winners and Finalists". Microsoft. 22 June 2011.
  18. ^"StorSimple Named Best of Deed at Interop Tokyo". Business Connection. 28 June 2011.
  19. ^"2011 SQL Member of staff serving at table Magazine Editors' Best and Humans Choice Awards".

    SQL Server Veteran. 18 November 2011.

  20. ^Kovar, Joseph Fuehrer. (10 July 2012).

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    22. "The 10 Coolest Storage Startups Of 2012 (So Far)". CRN. Retrieved 19 July 2013.

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