Posted on Wed, Feb 01, 2012
Storage Industry Evangelist Brings Experience from HP, 3PAR and EqualLogic; Sees Opportunity Around Next Growth Wave
Santa Clara, Calif. – Feb 01, 2012 – StorSimple today announced that industry visionary Marc Farley has joined the company. In the last year, StorSimple business grew exponentially because of the fact that CIOs, from Enterprise companies like BMC Software to mid-sized customers like the Sundance Institute, are rushing to extend their data centers and storage infrastructures to the cloud. Given the benefit that cloud architectures can provide to customers, StorSimple’s focus is accelerating the growth of this community. To help lead this effort, Marc Farley joins the company as Senior Director of Community and Customer Programs.
“Throughout my career I’ve tried to identify the technologies and companies with the potential to be change agents for the rest of the industry, “said Farley. “This included the opportunity with EqualLogic with its Ethernet-based iSCSI storage followed by the groundbreaking virtualized utility storage architecture at 3PAR.”
Farley continued, “Many believe cloud integration with enterprise storage will bring the next sweeping change to our industry. StorSimple has developed extremely sophisticated and powerful technology to pursue this opportunity. More importantly, the StorSimple team is committed to building a customer-centric organization, and I’m extremely excited to join them and put my shoulder to the wheel. ”
StorSimple is the leading provider of cloud integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. The company gains Marc’s deep industry experience, which ranges from authoring early seminal books on storage area networks (SANs), building customer communities in similar positions with HP, 3PAR, Dell and EqualLogic, and being a passionate industry evangelist through such vehicles as the Infosmack podcast and various video channels. “Our business is fueled by two trends,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple co-founder and CEO. “The first is companies that want to build their own ‘iCloud for the enterprise’ and need the cloud data controller to do that. The second is that for tier 2 and tier 3 primary data, enterprise customers are more than willing to consolidate the different sorts of storage that are used to manage data into a single solution. This is cloud integrated enterprise storage, and we will grow the community around this category. I’m tremendously excited that we have Marc Farley on our team to lead this charge.”
StorSimple recently was selected as finalist for Storage magazine’s Product of the Year award in the storage systems category and was the only cloud integrated enterprise storage appliance recognized. In addition, the company was recognized as a 2012 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner. These are the latest of numerous awards achieved on the basis of its innovative products and customer adoption.
To read more about this move, please go to Farley’s blog post and follow him on Twitter @metafarley.
About StorSimple
StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) is the leader in cloud-integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist.
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Posted on Wed, Jan 25, 2012
StorSimple 5010/7010 Appliance Recognized for Unique Integrated Approach to Cloud Storage with High-Availability, SAS Tier and Non-Disruptive Upgrades
Santa Clara, Calif. – Jan. 24, 2012 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware environments, today announced that its 5010 and 7010 cloud storage gateway appliances have been selected as 2011 Product of the Year finalists in the Storage Systems category by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com for the second consecutive year. StorSimple was selected from over 200 entries for the quality of its enterprise-grade appliances, which integrate multiple storage devices into one, dramatically reducing infrastructure costs.
The award recognizes the success of StorSimple’s integrated approach to enterprise cloud storage, using an on-premise appliance to automatically tier data to the cloud for primary storage, archiving, backup and disaster recovery. The 5010 and 7010 models add high-availability, non-disruptive upgrades and a SAS tier to go with the SSD and cloud tiers in the original StorSimple 1010 appliance. StorSimple 5010 and 7010 are still the only cloud integrated storage appliances that are certified by both VMware and Microsoft, and have been proven to reduce the cost of traditional storage by up to 80 percent. The StorSimple solution does not require rewriting applications and provides key business continuity features such as cloud snapshots and cloud clones coupled with military grade encryption.
“2011 was a seminal year for StorSimple where our 5010 and 7010 cloud integrated storage appliances have been adopted by mainstream enterprise customers in the finance, oil & gas, government, media, engineering, healthcare and manufacturing verticals to bring the economics of cloud services to enterprise data centers.” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple, “Being the only cloud integrated storage solution in the Storage Magazine Product of the Year storage systems category is a tremendous honor . It validates what we have been hearing from our customers, that we are offering a valuable product for achieving the full benefit of cloud storage. Enterprises with large storage requirements that do not have the budget to continuously invest in SAN purchases need solutions that help enable cloud storage.”
In its ninth year, the Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Product of the Year Awards are a staple in the storage industry. The storage system category covers Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI storage-area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS), multiprotocol systems, direct-attached storage (DAS), hard disk drives, solid-state storage, disk controllers, caching appliances, storage virtualization appliances and cloud storage gateway appliances. Finalists are listed alphabetically. Other finalists include EMC Corp. Symmetrix VMAXe Storage System, Gridstore Inc. GS-1000 Scale-out NAS Storage System and XIO Hyper ISE. Winners – a gold, silver and bronze - will be announced in the February issue of Storage magazine.
About StorSimple
StorSimple (www.storsimple.com) is the leader in cloud integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” and VMware Ready certifications, and was named the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist.
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Posted on Mon, Dec 12, 2011
StorSimple updates storage appliances to support cloud integrated enterprise storage for OpenStack™ ecosystem
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Dec. 12, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced availability of its enterprise cloud storage for the OpenStack ecosystem. As part of this support, StorSimple is updating its enterprise cloud storage appliances to integrate with Rackspace Cloud Files as its first OpenStack integration.
Rackspace Cloud Files is an OpenStack-based service that provides easy to use, on-demand online storage for files and media. As a Microsoft Certified and VMWare Ready cloud storage appliance integrating with the Cloud Files service, the StorSimple Appliance gives customers full benefits of cloud integrated enterprise storage with the Rackspace cloud. By using the StorSimple Appliance, Rackspace customers will be able to receive primary storage, backup storage, archival storage and a disaster recovery solution with high performance and additional security features in the cloud with a single device.
“The storage appliance for Rackspace Cloud Files offered by StorSimple is great news for our customers,” said Ven Shanmugam, Senior Manager, Strategy and Corporate Development, at Rackspace. “The StorSimple Appliance gives Rackspace customers a storage solution that enables them to use the Rackspace Cloud Files for primary, backup, archive and replicated storage without any changes to existing infrastructures.”
The StorSimple Appliance automatically tiers deduplicated, compressed data into the Rackspace® Cloud Files service. StorSimple brings to Rackspace customers additional security features in the cloud, with data encryption and on-premise key management. In addition, features such as Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones, which enable instant restore and offsite data replication, will be available to Rackspace customers through StorSimple. The cloud-as-tier architecture enabled by the StorSimple Appliance is 80 percent more cost effective than traditional storage, reducing infrastructure cost with full storage capabilities in a single appliance and reducing operational cost by simplifying management and eliminating manual tape processes.
“The fact that Rackspace contributed the underlying source code that has become the OpenStack Object Storage Software illustrates how Rackspace has driven the success of OpenStack,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. “In addition, the API they provide makes it possible for enterprises to build competitive cloud services, and we are showing our support with Rackspace being the first OpenStack cloud with which we are integrating our StoreSimple Appliance.”
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For a limited time, StorSimple is offering Rackspace customers a free trial of the StorSimple Appliance. For more information, visit www.storsimple.com/rackspace.
To view a demo of the StorSimple solution for Rackspace® Cloud Files please visit www.storsimple.com/rackspace/trialoffer.
About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: http://www.StorSimple.com
StorSimple is the leader in Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification as well as VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and was named a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Posted on Fri, Nov 18, 2011
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - November 17, 2011, StorSimple, the leading provider of Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that its StorSimple Appliance was named as a Bronze medal winner of the “2011 Editors’ Best Awards” for Best Storage Hardware Product by Penton Media’s SQL Server Magazine. The 2011 Editors’ Best Awards are based on a product’s strategic importance to the market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.
“Our Editors’ Best Awards let us leverage our contributing editors’ expertise to provide well-earned recognition to products that exceed industry standards,” said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro. “As we did last year, we’ve also added valuable, in-the-trenches insight from our reader community about the winning products. We're proud to now share this invaluable information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine communities. Our winners should be extremely proud of this recognition from our editorial experts.”
“This award by SQL Server Magazine is validation that our Storage Appliance is a true asset to today’s enterprises and the right solution to meet today’s challenging business environment,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. “We are seeing companies across all vertical segments of the market struggling to update their current infrastructure to accommodate for the exponential growth in data for applications like Microsoft SharePoint and to find more robust solutions for primary storage, data protection, disaster recovery and simplified backup/restore. Recognition by SQL Server Magazine underscores what we’re seeing through our customers.”
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About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: www.StorSimple.com
StorSimple is the leader in Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification as well as VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and was named a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
About SQL Server Magazine
SQL Server Magazine covers issues that matter to SQL Server database administrators and architects, BI professionals, and SQL Server developers. SQL Server users at all levels, from novice to advanced, come to learn practical, hands-on information straight from SQL Server experts. Visit sqlmag.com to learn more.
About Penton Media
As a leading, independent, business-to-business media company, Penton knows business and how to create and disseminate vital content that moves markets. Penton is where professionals turn to gain the critical insight, expert analysis and relevant connections needed to compete and succeed. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.
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Posted on Mon, Oct 31, 2011
Steve Querner Named SVP of Sales and Marketing for StorSimple
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Oct. 31, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that Steve Querner joined the company as senior vice president of sales and marketing. The appointment follows the company’s remarkable growth in vertical markets for mid-size and Fortune 100 companies. Querner, an industry veteran with over twenty five years of enterprise storage sales experience with IBM and EMC among others, will direct the sales and marketing team as it continues to establish and maintain positive customer relationships with enterprise organizations.
StorSimple has transformed from a gateway cloud appliance vendor to the leading provider of cloud integrated enterprise storage, capable of primary, backup, archival and disaster recovery. The ability to achieve the full benefit of the cloud while maintaining control of performance and security is in high demand among enterprises. The demand for enterprise class high-availability, scalability and cost efficiency among organizations facing stringent regulations or with multiple remote sites has resulted in an impressive level of customer growth for StorSimple.
“We are experiencing an influx of new enterprise customers, who consistently expand the use of our services following implementation,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple CEO. “We required a new senior team member with extensive industry experience in sales and marketing to support this market growth and further our goal to create long-term partnerships. Steve is well known in the industry for establishing strong customer relationships, and we expect that he will be a valuable asset to our sales and marketing team.”
Querner most recently served as North American Storage Sales Leader at IBM. Querner joined IBM through its acquisition of XIV in 2007 and led the sales team of the fastest growing segment within the IBM storage division. Prior to IBM, Querner was vice president, worldwide sales at Onstor, Inc., a venture backed NAS start-up, where he was responsible for managing worldwide sales organization. In addition, he has held prominent positions at Cisco Systems and EMC.
“I am excited to be joining a company that is recognized as the leader in enabling customers to realize the business, financial and operational benefits of utilizing the cloud,” said Querner.
About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: www.StorSimple.com
StorSimple is the leader in Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification as well as VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year 2011 and was named a Best of VMworld 2011 Finalist. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Posted on Thu, Oct 20, 2011
Webinar to Feature New Approach on Reducing Data Storage Expenses
Santa Clara, Calif. – October 20, 2011 — (BUSINESS WIRE)--StorSimple, the leading provider of cloud integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced a webinar featuring Forrester Research Inc. on the cost benefit of integrated enterprise cloud storage.
“Cloud-as-a-Tier - Building an Enterprise Architecture For Secure High-Performance Hybrid Cloud Storage”
The amount of data organizations need to store is growing at record rates. At the same time they need to reduce capital expenses. There is a new approach that promises to deliver a more cost effective IT infrastructure through the cloud. Storage using integrated enterprise cloud architecture – capable of archive, backup, primary and disaster recovery - is 74% less expensive than traditional storage. To learn more about the cost benefits of integrated cloud storage don’t miss a live webinar on October 26, 2011 at 8:00 am PST hosted by StorSimple and featuring Forrester Research.
The webinar will compare the capital, operational and staffing cost differences between traditional storage and cloud storage. Guest speaker Andrew Reichman, principal analyst at Forrester, and Joel Christner, chief scientist of StorSimple, will deliver a live demonstration modeling the difference between a common workload – file storage – built and deployed traditionally compared to consumed through the public cloud with an integrated enterprise cloud storage architecture.
Click here to learn more and to register.
Everyone that registers will receive:
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A free copy of the new eBook: “Cloud-as-a-Tier - Building an Enterprise Architecture For Secure High-Performance Hybrid Cloud Storage” by Ian Howells
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Access to a detailed TCO model to discuss the specific savings in their organization
About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: www.storsimple.com
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year.
StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Posted on Wed, Oct 05, 2011
Educational Institution Deploys StorSimple over Multiple Campuses
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Oct. 05, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that Southwestern Michigan College (SMC) has selected StorSimple’s appliance to manage its entire VMware environment for primary, archival, backup and offsite disaster recovery across both of its campuses. According to U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra, three industries can realize the most benefits from the cloud: healthcare, education and energy; StorSimple is currently working with customers across these industries and beyond.
Southwestern Michigan College is a learner centered college with leading programs in nursing and the automotive technology. The institution educates 3,000 students across two campuses in Dowagiac, Mich. and Niles, Mich. With a rapidly growing student base, SMC looked for a storage solution that could simply and cost effectively support the growth of data and provide robust disaster recovery for its VMware and file share environments. Security and the need to minimize migration time and cost were key concerns during the evaluation process. After an extensive review, SMC selected StorSimple for its simple deployment and enterprise class support.
The college initially implemented StorSimple to facilitate a robust offsite disaster recovery plan. Extensive usage of the system revealed the suitability of the appliance to fully support the complete SMC VMware environment across primary, archival and backup as well as offsite disaster recovery across two campuses.
Before any data is written to the cloud it is encoded with military grade encryption, which adequately met SMC’s security requirements. In addition, SMC had previously spent months migrating data, but now instant thin provisioning, deduplication, compression and automatic tiering removed the painful need for migration and archival due to lack of storage space.
“Organizations are afraid of losing control if they move to the cloud, but our experience shows that with an on-premise appliance that auto-tiers storage you get control, high performance and high-availability,” said Don Magee, systems architect for Southwestern Michigan College. “The StorSimple solution had a huge impact, enabling us to manage Big Data without spending months on migration and providing reliable, integrated, primary storage, archival, backup and disaster recovery.”
“Data migration and disaster recovery are especially a challenge for organizations with multiple sites and expanding data requirements,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple CEO. “An effective cloud integrated enterprise storage solution can support changing needs and grow with an organization, as we’ve seen with Southwestern Michigan College. Educational establishments are looking for secure, cost effective alternatives to the traditional storage treadmill. More and more users are seeing Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage as the solution to control VMware sprawl and growing Windows infrastructures.”
More information on how Southwestern Michigan College uses enterprise cloud storage can be found at:
http://www.storsimple.com/customers/southwestern
About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: www.bit.ly/StorSimpleCorporate
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Posted on Tue, Aug 16, 2011
Benefits Achieved Include VMware Primary Storage, Snapshots and Cloud Backup to Amazon
Santa Clara, Calif. – June 22, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that after an extensive evaluation, MedPlast, a leading provider of thermoplastic medical devices, selected StorSimple for VMware Ready cloud storage on Amazon S3. The StorSimple appliance will be used for primary storage, automatic archiving, snapshots, cloud snapshots and disaster recovery.
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MedPlast specializes in contract manufacturing of thermoplastic and elastomer medical devices for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. It operates five plants across the U.S. which run 24x7 to generate medical devices that are critical to people’s lives. The manufacturing data behind these devices has strict retention requirements and has to be stored for the lifetime of the product, while remaining quickly available when required. MedPlast started evaluating the cloud and cloud storage when their existing backup targets were becoming full and backup windows were growing excessively long. Instead of purchasing additional disks, Dan Streufert, IT Director for Medplast, led an evaluation to fix the problem and provide a long-term solution.
“When you talk about primary storage and backup, it is one of the most critical parts of your infrastructure and you really need to have confidence in your solution. We looked at all of the vendors in this space and I spent a lot of time analyzing the capabilities and the pros and cons of each one,” said Dan Streufert, IT Director for MedPlast. “It was apparent that StorSimple has the most fully baked solution. They have the most enterprise class product and organization. As soon as you open the box with the StorSimple device you can tell it’s an enterprise class, robust, purpose-built device.”
MedPlast initially started using the StorSimple 5010 as a backup target, but quickly realized that StorSimple is much more. MedPlast quickly moved to storing their Virtual Machines (VMs) on StorSimple, which enabled them to perform instant Snapshots and Cloud Snapshots with no adverse effects on performance and the backup window. The VMs being managed include an ERP application with supporting components such as database reporting, Sharepoint, and programs that monitor the molding presses. File shares and archiving is another key use case.
“Storage is a challenge because the more complex the system, the higher the cost, which creates a very expensive system for enterprise organizations,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple CEO. “To get the most out of enterprise cloud storage, companies need to think about data in a different way. StorSimple is a next generation cloud storage provider and customers, such as MedPlast, that do detailed investigations quickly find the value in our approach to cloud storage.”
More information on how MedPlast uses enterprise cloud storage can be found at:
About StorSimple
Learn about who StorSimple is: www.bit.ly/StorSimpleCorporate
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 80 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
MedPlast Inc.
MedPlast, Inc., based in Tempe, Arizona, is a leader in the design, prototyping, engineering, assembly, tool-making and production of precision, custom-molded components for the healthcare and select industrial markets. The company's cutting edge technical capability and one-stop, full-service approach offer unsurpassed precision, speed-to-market and synergistic skills in elastomers and thermoplastics. The company works in close collaboration with its customers - product developers in markets where stringent quality assurance and compliance - along with time- and cost-efficiencies - are of paramount importance.
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Posted on Tue, Jun 28, 2011
StorSimple Selected from 300 Companies in Demanding Japanese Market
Santa Clara, Calif. – June 28, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, today announced that its StorSimple appliance was awarded the Grand Prize for Best of Show in the Product section at the 2011 Interop Tokyo show, held June 7-10. StorSimple’s Japanese partner and distributor, Macnica Networks Corporation, nominated StorSimple for the award. The Best of Show Award winners were selected from among the products and solutions exhibited by more than 300 companies. After a rigorous evaluation and voting process, the Grand Prize and Special Prize winners were selected by a panel of judges. The judges valued StorSimple for its:
- Product and cloud storage implementation
- Automatic Tiering technology
- Deduplication technology
- Data protection and Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Encryption technology
“The cloud and its application to data protection and disaster recovery are key issues for every Japanese enterprise today,” said Masanori Murakami director of Macnica Networks Corp. Cloud Business Department. “Integrating the cloud into on premise applications is now a simple, 10-minute process with StorSimple. This means every Japanese company and regional office has access to cost effective data protection and disaster recovery.
StorSimple’s enterprise cloud storage appliance dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of traditional data storage by combining a single on-premise appliance with cloud storage to offer tiered primary storage, automatic archiving, data protection and disaster recovery. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances are the only enterprise cloud storage appliances to pass VMware Ready certification and be certified for Windows Server 2008.
“Japan is a very demanding market that recognizes and values technical excellence. Receiving this award is a great honor and an acknowledgement of StorSimple as an industry leader both in the U.S. and now internationally,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. “This award is a reflection of our commitment to the Japanese market with our support for both global clouds such as Windows Azure and Amazon and local Japanese cloud vendors.”
For more information on StorSimple in Japan go to: http://www.macnica.net/storsimple/
The Interop Tokyo show attracts more than 140,000 industry influencers from all over the world and over 300 corporate exhibitors showcasing the latest in networking technology. The Best of Show “Grand Prix” award is given to the most innovative firms in 14 categories representing products, solutions, or services that change the landscape of information technology.
About StorSimple
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Lois Paul & Partners
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Posted on Thu, Jun 23, 2011
Santa Clara, Calif. — June 23, 2011 — Today, StorSimple, the leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures, proudly announced it has won the 2011 Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Awards were presented in multiple categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 3,000 entrants worldwide. StorSimple was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year. The BizSpark Partner of the Year Award recognizes StorSimple for demonstrating leadership in the areas of innovation, market potential, media and analyst attention, investor value creation, and customer adoption.
"Microsoft is pleased to recognize StorSimple as its BizSpark Partner of the Year," said Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president of Strategic and Emerging Business Business Development at Microsoft. "StorSimple has leveraged the full range of the BizSpark program’s offering from world-class development tools, to a global network of partners and customers. As a result it has accelerated its business opportunity and increased its market presence while adding value for its investors."
“Microsoft has emerged as one of the leading providers of cloud services to enterprises. We find customers often choose Azure because they expect applications and compute to follow their data and content in the cloud,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple. “To be honored as the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year indicates the success of the StorSimple solution with Windows Azure, and demonstrates that StorSimple has become the clear leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage.”
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
About StorSimple
StorSimple is the leader in Enterprise Cloud Storage for Windows and VMware infrastructures. StorSimple has uniquely achieved the most stringent “Certified for Windows Server 2008” level of certification and also VMware Ready status. StorSimple is the Microsoft BizSpark Partner of the Year and a Silver award winner in Storage Magazine’s Products of the Year. StorSimple securely and transparently integrates the cloud into on-premises applications and offers a single appliance that delivers high-performance tiered storage, live archiving, cloud based data protection and disaster recovery, reducing cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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