27 Emerging Storage Vendors
Solution providers who want to get ahead in the storage space have more options than just following the established vendors. The 2008 CRN Emerging Vendors list includes 27 hot storage companies with a variety of innovative products.
1. agami Systems
Product Line: An enterprise-class unified network storage solution to support businesses of all sizes.
Featured Product (pictured): AIS6000 series servers
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: General Storage Focus, and Video [read more]
2. AMCC/3ware
Product Line: Capitalizes on serial storage expertise to take users from SCSI to SAS with 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID controllers.
Featured Product (pictured): 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID Controller
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Volume Oriented Reseller Partner [read more]
3. APTARE
Product Line: A cost-effective, agentless storage reporting platform leveraging all of the benefits of Web 2.0 architecture.
Featured Product (pictured): Aptare Storage Console
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Storage-focused VAR [read more]
4. Asigra
Product Line: An information recovery platform for delivering backup and recovery as a service.
Featured Product (pictured): Televaulting
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer for limited international coverage
Ideal Partner: Wireless-, convergence-, or security-focused VAR [read more]
5. Atrato
Product Line: The Atrato Velocity1000 (V1000) high-density storage system addresses I/O bottlenecks between storage and servers.
Featured Product (pictured): Velocity1000
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider. We are also looking at Limited International Recruitment [read more]
6. Buffalo Technology
Product Line: Provides iSCSI Storage Server products.
Featured Product (pictured): TeraStation Pro
Channel Recruitment Goal: 250 partners to 500 partners
Ideal Partner: Small Business Focused Solution Provider [read more]
7. Buslink Media
Product Line: RFID Key Encrypted external hard drive prevents unauthorized access to the contents of hard drives and enables 128-bit encryption in real time.
Featured Product (pictured): RFID External Hard Drive w/ Encryption Key
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: No preference [read more]
8. Caringo
Product Line: CAStor is a scalable, high-performance and cost-effective CAS (content addressed storage) based product that runs on any x86 hardware.
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Volume-oriented VAR [read more]
9. CommVault
Product Line: Simpana software suite is a single product with application modules for data protection, archive, replication, resource management and search.
Featured Product (pictured): Simpana Software Suite
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]
10. Compellent Technologies
Product Line: Compellent Storage Center 4.0 SAN manages data inside the volume, automating tiered storage within drives and reclaiming unused disk space.
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider [read more]
11. Emulex Corporation
Product Line: LPe12000 family of 8Gb/s PCIe 2.0 Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA) are designed to meet the needs of the evolving data center.
Featured Product (pictured): LPe12000 Host Bus Adapter
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]
12. Enhance Technology
Product Line: High-performance storage systems and products for the digital content creation, post production, data archiving and IT market spaces.
Featured Product (pictured): UltraStor RS16 Series
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]
13. Hifn
Product Line: Storage consolidation, centralized management, automation and advanced data protection in Windows, Linux and other server environments.
Featured Product (pictured): Swarm 3000
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
14. MiraLink
Product Line: Remote Mirroring Appliances
Featured Product (pictured): ML5150FC
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Small Business Focused Solution Provider [read more]
15. ONStor
Product Line: ONStor's Pantera 5000 Clustered NAS solution features an architecture that combines n-way clustering, virtual file servers and single-pool storage.
Featured Product (pictured): Pantera 5000
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]
16. Overland Storage
Product Line: Overland Storage offers a complete line of intelligent data protection solutions for general purpose storage as well as backup and recovery.
Featured Product (pictured): REO 9500d
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider [read more]
17. Pillar Data Systems
Product Line: Application-Aware Storage systems for midsize and enterprise organizations.
Featured Product (pictured): Pillar Axiom
Channel Recruitment Goal: No set number of partners for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Enterprise-focused solution provider [read more]
18. ProStor Systems
Product Line: InfiniVault is a network removable storage system.
Featured Product (pictured): InfiniVault 30
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider [read more]
19. QLogic Corporation
Product Line: The QLogic 8 GB Fibre Channel Storage Network consists of SANblade 2500 Series 8 GB Fibre Channel HBAs and SANbox 5000 Series Stackable 8 GB Fibre Channel Switches.
Featured Product (pictured): SANBox 5800
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]
20. Rebit
Product Line: Backup solutions
Featured Product (pictured): Rebit Ridiculously Simple Backup
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Small-business-focused solution provider [read more]
21. RELDATA
Product Line: Provides storage solutions that deliver iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication functions from a single virtualized storage platform.
Featured Product (pictured): RelData 9240 System
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or fewer for limited international coverage
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
22. Seanodes
Product Line: Exanodes' software solution creates a shared storage system using the cluster's own hard disks, which are customarily underused.
Featured Product (pictured): Exanodes GUI
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 to 250 partners for broad international coverage
Ideal Partner: Midmarket-focused solution provider [read more]
23. Spectra Logic Corporation
Product Line: Spectra Logic's Media Lifecycle Management software feature provides advanced media tracking and reporting for the life of a tape.
Featured Product (pictured): Media LifeCycle Management Software
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Integrator with a focus in storage solutions for their SMB and Enterprise customer base. Our partners have experience in strategic multi-vendor sales and implementations. [read more]
24. StoneFly
Product Line: Provides IP SAN solutions.
Featured Product (pictured): Integrated Storage Concentrator
Channel Recruitment Goal: 51 partner to 250 partners
Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider [read more]
25. STORServer
Product Line: StorServer Business Continuity Appliances.
Featured Product (pictured): StorServer SAN appliance
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Midmarket Focused Solution Provider [read more]
26. Storwize
Product Line: Provides a real-time storage compression solution.
Featured Product (pictured): STN 6000
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Managed Service Provider [read more]
27. Violin Memory
Product Line: The Violin 1010 Memory Appliance Solid State Disk (I/O accelerator) is fully fault tolerant with RAID and hot spare memory modules.
Featured Product (pictured): Violin 1010 Memory Appliance Solid State Disk
Channel Recruitment Goal: 50 partners or less
Ideal Partner: Enterprise Focused Solution Provider [read more]