Posted by Patrick Phonsakkhwa on Wed, Apr 18, 2012 @ 07:00 AM
The First Church of Christ, Scientist To Discuss How to Flatten Chronic Data Center Costs Using StorSimple 5020 and Amazon S3
Santa Clara, Calif. – April 18, 2012 – StorSimple today previewed a presentation to be given by its customer at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2012 in New York City on April 19, 2012. The talk by Terry Barbounis of The First Church of Christ, Scientist will highlight StorSimple’s Gold-level presence at the event. StorSimple and its customer will discuss how to dramatically reduce data center costs using cloud-integrated enterprise storage. StorSimple achieved this presence at the AWS Summit based upon the strategic nature of this category of solution for Amazon S3 customers.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist will share important perspectives on its journey to adopt cloud-integrated enterprise storage, highlight the dramatic benefits and cost savings, and discuss how it is an integral part of its long-term strategy. The speaker session is particularly relevant to enterprises that want to leverage Amazon S3 storage while continuing to deploy high-performance on-premise storage for a broad range of applications and workloads.
“We are extremely grateful that The First Church of Christ, Scientist agreed to tell its story about the combination of StorSimple and Amazon S3 as part of its overall strategy to utilize cloud services and shift from a capex to opex model,” said Bridget Warwick, StorSimple CMO. “We’re also pleased that Amazon recognized the value that this presentation will provide to AWS Summit attendees.”
“I’m looking forward to sharing our experience with StorSimple with my peers at the AWS Summit,” said Terry Barbounis, cloud consultant, The First Church of Christ, Scientist. “Cloud-integrated enterprise storage fits our need to consolidate primary, backup, archive and disaster recovery functions and eliminate expensive backup equipment used for data protection. StorSimple brings us the best combination of features and price, and a client team that works as partners with us, which proved their value before purchase.”
Cloud-integrated enterprise storage is an emerging category of storage solution that consolidates primary, archive, backup and disaster recovery through seamless integration with the cloud. By combining SAN storage and cloud data management on an enterprise-class platform, these solutions enable new levels of speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery while reducing both primary and data protection costs.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist is a global organization with branches in 75 countries. It is also well known for its international news organization, The Christian Science Monitor. It uses AWS and S3 to create an IT utility that allows it to cross-charge infrastructure costs to their departmental customers who can choose to scale up or scale back, including storage capacity.
The Church purchased a pair of StorSimple 5020 cloud-integrated enterprise storage appliances for its VMware and Windows-based file shares. Amazon S3 storage is used as a tier for inactive data on primary storage, as an on-line archive for historical files, as a replacement for backup tapes and as an off-site disaster recovery repository. In addition, automating snapshots and backups means the IT team at the Church saves hours each week by not having to manage backup and tape media. They use multiple regions in S3 for redundant protection against unexpected service or communication outages.
The StorSimple system de-duplicates and compresses data it stores on disk. Reducing data this way allowed the Church to scale back the amount of storage they need by more than 80% compared to its previous Fibre Channel SAN. In addition, StorSimple’s data reduction saves the Church on every gigabyte that is transferred and stored in the cloud.
For more information on StorSimple at the AWS Summit 2012, please visit http://www.storsimple.com/aws-nyc-summit. For more information on StorSimple’s cloud-integrated enterprise storage solutions, please visit http://www.storsimple.com/product-overview/.
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. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances were named 2011 Products of the Year in the Storage Systems category by Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com.
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Posted by Patrick Phonsakkhwa on Tue, Apr 03, 2012 @ 07:00 AM
New versions of award-winning products add greater capacity, up to 100x faster data recovery and 60 to 80 percent lower TCO across larger workloads and more applications
Santa Clara, Calif. – April 3, 2012 – StorSimple today announced the immediate availability of its extended family of cloud-integrated enterprise storage products.
The new StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520 appliances with software version 2.0 support larger enterprise workloads and data sets with an increased capacity amount of up to 100TB of usable local storage. Performance enhancements in cloud data management provide up to 100x faster cloud-based disaster recovery compared to traditional backup in the cloud. These new capabilities allow customers to use StorSimple to reduce storage TCO by 60 to 80 percent and further drive cloud-integrated enterprise storage to mainstream use cases.
Cloud-integrated enterprise storage is an emerging category of storage solution that consolidates primary, archive, backup and disaster recovery through seamless integration with the cloud. By combining SAN storage and cloud data management on an enterprise-class platform, these appliances enable new levels of speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery while reducing both primary and data protection costs.
“A wide range of Fortune 1000 enterprises across verticals like retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, services, consumer goods, healthcare and banking as well as government customers have done their first storage deployments on public clouds using StorSimple,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple co-founder and CEO. “For these customers, the choice comes down to continuing status quo or working to leverage the cloud, and this disruption has led to the emergence of the cloud-integrated enterprise storage market segment. We are leading this disruption with our award-winning products that integrate the cloud with enterprise storage infrastructure and processes.”
“The StorSimple solution automatically stores inactive data and snapshots from our SAN in the cloud, which has made a huge difference in the amount of time we spend managing storage,” said Luke Gracie director of information technology at InventHelp, “The cost is comparable to what you’d spend for a traditional SAN array, but you get additional features such as deduplication, compression, tiering and cloud-based disaster recovery – all with a single system.”
The second-generation of StorSimple appliances, the 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520, include a number of important new capabilities in the following areas:
Higher local capacity and greater performance
The new appliances provide up to 100TB of usable local storage, and include higher capacity controllers with NVRAM support, along with software optimizations that offer an order of magnitude performance increase over previous versions and increased local storage capacity with enterprise SSD and SAS. As a result, customers can leverage cloud-integrated enterprise storage across larger workloads and a broader range of applications.
Cloud Data Management
StorSimple enables record-breaking times for application data recovery from cloud storage – up to 100TB of data per day with a single StorSimple appliance over a 50Mbps WAN link. In contrast, traditional cloud-based backup would take over 90 days to restore 100TB of data, while using twice the bandwidth (100Mbps). When coupled with StorSimple’s ability to store data in application-level (vs. backup) format, these performance improvements enable enterprises to confidently leverage the cloud for backup and restoring primary business data.
To improve customers’ cloud resiliency and vendor diversification, StorSimple appliances now can store complete sets of data across two different cloud providers or regional locations. As a result, customers can use one provider or geographic location for primary cloud storage and another for backup – using a single StorSimple appliance and the CloudClone™ feature. Expanded cloud provider support now includes storage services from Google, HP and Rackspace, as well as Amazon’s Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS).
Enterprise-class Platform
StorSimple’s new appliances include an expanded set enterprise-level operational and management capabilities. To maximize application availability, customers have the ability to non-disruptively upgrade from 1.0 to 2.0 system software – allowing applications and business processes to run continuously while StorSimple appliances are being updated. IT teams gain additional benefit through reduced management and planning time required for system updates.
StorSimple 5020 and 7020 appliances with software version 2.0 have already achieved VMware Ready certification and the 5520 and 7520 are expected to achieve the same certification in Q2 2012.
Pricing and Availability
The StorSimple 5020, 5520, 7020 and 7520 appliances are available immediately. Pricing starts at $40,000. For more information please go to http://www.storsimple.com/cloud-integrated-enterprise-storage.
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. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 appliances were named 2011 Products of the Year in the Storage Systems category by Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com.
Posted by Patrick Phonsakkhwa on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 @ 04:41 PM
StorSimple 5010/7010 Appliance Tops Storage System Category; Recognized for Innovation, Ease of Use, Functionality and Value
Santa Clara, Calif. – Feb. 15, 2012 – StorSimple, the leading provider of cloud integrated enterprise storage for Windows and VMware environments, received top honors in the storage systems categoryfor Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com’s 2011 Product of the Year award. The StorSimple 5010 and 7010 products were awarded Gold in the category from among eleven finalists. The previous year StorSimple received the silver award in the same category with its StorSimple 1010 appliance.
According to magazine/SearchStorage.com, over 200 products were nominated in six categories. 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. Products were judged by a panel of users, analysts, consultants, and Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors. Products were rated based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value.
The StorSimple appliance was the only cloud solution among the finalists in the category, and the only cloud integrated enterprise storage product across the award. StorSimple’s integrated approach to enterprise cloud storage is up to 80 percent more cost effective than traditional storage area network (SAN) approaches. The judges recognized StorSimple’s “automated tiering to cloud storage with built-in dedupe/compression reducing cloud storage usage fees” as a “key advantage.” In addition, judges said the appliances are a “good way to splice in cloud storage capacity without tremendous disruption or effort.”
“Placing Gold for an award that is a staple of the storage industry is a tremendous honor,” said Ursheet Parikh, CEO of StorSimple, “We mostly compete against the status quo, and the fact that the award recognizes us as better than status quo should signal to the market that it’s time to think about cloud-integrated storage. If any company is thinking about cloud, it should think StorSimple.”
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 by Patrick P on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 @ 10:20 AM
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 by Patrick P on Fri, Nov 18, 2011 @ 08:00 AM
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.
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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.
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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 by Patrick P on Mon, Oct 31, 2011 @ 07:00 AM
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 by Patrick P on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 @ 07:00 AM
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 by Chris Morton on Tue, Feb 01, 2011 @ 05:00 AM
Paula Long Brings 20 Years of Experience to Leading Cloud Storage Startup
Santa Clara, Calif. – Feb. 1, 2011 – StorSimple, the leading provider of Windows optimized cloud storage technology, today announced the appointment of Paula Long to the StorSimple Board of Advisors. Long, who co-founded storage provider EqualLogic, brings a wealth of experience at growing companies by delivering innovative, market changing storage technology.
“Paula brings an incredible wealth of knowledge, exceptional success and industry experience to our Board,” said Ursheet Parikh, StorSimple CEO. “She built a company from the ground up and took it through a very successful acquisition. We have aggressive expectations for 2011 and beyond, and we look forward to leveraging her expertise to help us continue growing our business and penetrating the storage market with innovative hybrid cloud storage technologies aimed at Microsoft environments.”
Paula has held numerous technical leadership positions at a variety of technology companies. She has won several awards for Entrepreneurship, including New Hampshire High Tech Council Entrepreneur of the year award, the Ernst & Young’s 2008 Northeast Regional “Entrepreneur of the Year” and a National Finalist for the same award. Paula is currently the VP of Product Development at Heartland Robotics. Prior to Heartland Paula was Co-Founder and EVP of Products and Strategy at EqualLogic which was acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008. Paula remained at Dell as VP of Storage, focused on the EqualLogic Product Line until January of 2010.
Long joins the StorSimple Board of Advisors and Directors that includes notable industry names including Satish Dharmaraj of Redpoint Ventures, Mike Volpi & Bernard Dalle of Index Ventures, Jayshree Ullal of Arista Networks, Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund and Richard Fade of Ignition Partners.
“Cloud computing is well known as one of the hottest technology topics of the last few years, and its potential to change the storage industry is just starting to be felt,” said Paula Long. “The StorSimple team has industry changing products that leverage the best of the cloud and on site storage. I look forward to working with them to build out their strategy and help the company continue on the path to success.”
About StorSimple
StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid cloud storage solution for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Files Services, Virtual Machines, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection, and reduces cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage used with these applications. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Ignition Partners, Index Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Redpoint Ventures.
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Posted by Chris Morton on Mon, Sep 13, 2010 @ 11:04 AM
StorSimple to Accelerate Expansion Plans in High-Growth Cloud Storage Market
StorSimple announced today that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding round led by Mayfield Fund, bringing the company’s total funding to $21 million. Participation in this round included new investor Ignition Partners and both existing investors: Index Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Funds from Series B will be used to expand sales, support and product operations while keeping focus on optimizing secure, high-performance, high-availability hybrid cloud storage for Microsoft SharePoint, Exchange 2010, File Services, and Virtual Machine environments.
“Mayfield, as the original investor in 3PAR, knows the cloud storage market is a once-in-a-decade disruption,” stated Navin Chaddha, managing director at Mayfield Fund. “Enterprises want the best-of-both worlds: the instant, elastic provisioning of the cloud that is available from anywhere with low-cost utility billing while still being able to give users familiar applications such as Exchange and SharePoint with the same security and at least the same performance. The StorSimple application-optimized cloud storage appliance securely integrates the cloud into familiar enterprise applications without forcing companies to move their applications into the cloud.”
“We understand the Microsoft ecosystem very well,” said Richard Fade, partner at Ignition Partners. “SharePoint is the fastest-growing Microsoft server product ever. Companies want to expand its usage from small collaboration databases to multi-terabyte databases that were previously the domain of multi-million dollar content management systems. StorSimple with its SharePoint Optimizer is able to do this, reducing database size by up to 95 percent and storage requirements by up to 80 percent. This dramatically improves high-scale SharePoint performance and has out-of-the-box integration with Azure. Users can also get the familiarity of Outlook/Exchange and the ‘unlimited storage’ of hosted email, as StorSimple enables PST files to move to Exchange 2010 Personal Archives that can be securely stored in the cloud.”
“The last decade created great virtualization companies based on the fact that typical CPU utilization was at 5 percent,” said Mike Volpi, partner at Index Ventures. “Today, storage utilization is often at 10 percent to 25 percent. This decade will create great companies that will combine the instant provisioning of the cloud with the security and performance of enterprise storage. We believe StorSimple will be the leaders in this hybrid cloud storage category.”
“We have been an early investor in StorSimple and saw the market potential from day one,” said Satish Dharmaraj, partner with Redpoint Ventures. “We see 20 percent to 40 percent of storage moving to the cloud, and StorSimple will drive massive enterprise revenue to leading cloud providers such as Amazon, AT&T, EMC and Microsoft, putting it at the forefront of the cloud integration into the enterprise.”
“Feedback from our customers and partners confirmed that we are in the right part of this high-growth market,” said Ursheet Parikh, founder and CEO of StorSimple. “Their feedback convinced us that we had to accelerate growth plans and establish our leadership position in hybrid cloud storage.”
StorSimple is a next-generation hybrid cloud storage appliance that securely integrates the cloud into enterprise applications without forcing users to put their enterprise applications into the cloud. Customers get the instant thin provisioning, elastic expansion, and utility billing of the public cloud with the speed and security of primary storage. The unique tiered storage and weighted storage layout combined with encryption and real-time de-duplication mean that the StorSimple solution can be used securely for primary application content and backup or archival over a WAN. More information about the StorSimple solution and its benefits in today’s environments is available at http://www.storsimple.com/wp-overview.
About StorSimple
StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid storage solution for SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection, and reduces cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage used with these applications. StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures.
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Posted by Chris Morton on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 @ 10:54 AM
Cloud Storage Start-up Comes out of Stealth Mode with Recognition
Santa Clara, CA – April 8, 2010 – StorSimple, today announced it has been selected as part of the list of "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2010," published April 2, 2010 by Gartner, Inc. StorSimple, which up until now has been operating in stealth mode, has developed an application-optimization hybrid storage controller that enables enterprises to easily and securely integrate public and private cloud storage services with their existing on-premise deployments of mainstream enterprise applications.
“We believe StorSimple's inclusion in Gartner's Cool Vendor report is confirmation of the enterprise customer's need for StorSimple’s hybrid storage controller. StorSimple’s solution is optimized for applications like SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files & Virtual Machines and delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection and significantly reduces cost over traditional enterprise storage used with these applications," said Ursheet Parikh, CEO and co-founder of StorSimple. “By providing an easy on-ramp to cloud storage for application specific requirements, StorSimple aims to change the game by bringing the operational benefits of the cloud to applications deployed within an enterprise data-center. Stay tuned.”
StorSimple was founded in May 2009 by serial entrepreneurs and storage networking and WAN optimization leaders Guru Pangal, president and Ursheet Parikh, CEO. Prior to co-founding StorSimple Guru Pangal held GM and VP of Engineering roles at Brocade. Guru joined Brocade through the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, which he founded. Prior to co-founding StorSimple Ursheet Parikh had driven cross functional execution for Cisco’s WAN Application Acceleration Service (WAAS) business from concept to #1 market share leadership in three years.
“StorSimple's team of storage veterans recognizes that data-integrity and data- availability triumph all features in a data storage product. We are taking a very pragmatic execution approach that preserves all existing IT investment and leverages the existing enterprise eco-system, so that we can focus on the few things that we do well. In my 25 years in the storage industry, the engineering team at StorSimple is the best team that I have seen. I am geeked,” said Guru Pangal, StorSimple, President and co-founder.
In June of 2009, StorSimple closed an $8 million Series A led by Satish Dharamraj of Redpoint Ventures and Bernard Dalle of Index Ventures. Jayshree Ullal, CEO of Arista Networks and Mike Volpi of Index Ventures also joined Ursheet, Guru, Satish and Bernard on StorSimple's Board of Directors
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About StorSimple
StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid storage controller for SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files & Virtual Machines that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection and reduces cost
over traditional enterprise storage used with these applications. StorSimple is based in the Silicon Valley and can be reached at www.StorSimple.com
Press Contact: Mari Mineta Clapp Mari@StorSimple.com (408) 398-6433
