Most Promising Storage Start-Ups in 2012
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Tue, December 27th, 2011
Editor's annual updated choice of top 15
For the second year we are ranking the top 15 most promising storage start-ups. It's not easy to classify storage start-ups as they are involved in completely different technologies (basic hardware and subsystems, de-dupe, cloud, archiving, etc). But we did it. This ranking is the result of the opinion of a journalist - not a consultant or an expert - following daily the worldwide storage industry considering of course the technology of each company, but also their most recent financial rounds of funding and their growth when available. Anybody else trying to the do the same ranking will get different results.
JJM, Editor
Top 15 Most Promising Storage Start-Ups for 2012
We also like AppAssure Software, Avere, Axcient, Axxana, Basho, Box.net, Cache IQ, Druva, ExaGrid, Kaminario, Nevex, Mimecast, Nevex, NextGen Storage, Nvelo, Panasas, Scale Computing, Scality, StorMagic, Twinstrata, Veeam, Virsto, Virtual Instruments, WhipTail and Zerto
Our to 15 ranking last year was:
JJM, Editor
Top 15 Most Promising Storage Start-Ups for 2012
- Dropbox: online storage
- Violin: flash memory arrays
- Coraid: network storage appliances based on ATA-over-Ethernet
- Cloudera: Apache Hadoop-based platform
- SolidFire: cloud-based SSD storage
- Tintri: purpose-built SSD storage system for virtual machines
- Actifio: solution for data protection, DR and BC
- Pure Storage: software for SSD NAS
- Adesto: memory based on RRAM-type scheme called programmable metallization cell to replace flash
- Thought Equity Motion: cloud storage video platform
- Nimble: storage, backup, and DR into single iSCSI solution with SSDs and HDDs
- Nutanix: cloud computing and virtualization
- Virident: enterprise PCIe SSD
- Kanbox: online backup in China
- XtremIO: enterprise SSD storage system
We also like AppAssure Software, Avere, Axcient, Axxana, Basho, Box.net, Cache IQ, Druva, ExaGrid, Kaminario, Nevex, Mimecast, Nevex, NextGen Storage, Nvelo, Panasas, Scale Computing, Scality, StorMagic, Twinstrata, Veeam, Virsto, Virtual Instruments, WhipTail and Zerto
Our to 15 ranking last year was:
- Nimble: storage, backup, and DR into a single iSCSI solution with SSDs and HDDs
- Nimbus: storage subsystem with SSD only
- ExaGrid: de-dupe
- SandForce: SSD processor
- Mimecast: email management including archiving, discovery, continuity, security and policy
- Fusion-io: PCI SSD
- Axxana: asynchronous replication with no data loss over any geographical distance
- Violin: flash memory arrays
- GreenBytes: de-dupe for primary storage and backup
- Pliant Technology: enterprise flash SAS SSD
- Amplidata: object storage system to distribute and store data blocks redundantly across number of disks.
- Veeam: agentless data protection for VMware
- Scale Computing: clustered disk-storage solution for SMBs
- Avere: tiered NAS appliances
- InQuinox: appliance for Symantec de-dupe software
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