Emerging Vendors 2011: Storage Vendors
Gaining A Foothold In The Storage Market
The Emerging Vendors 2011 list comprises companies from every discipline and technology facet. Here we compile a list of the storage vendors that made the list. Each of these companies brings something different to the table, and each has a fresh perspective. And some are already gaining a foothold in the bustling IT marketplace. They represent new partnership and go-to-market opportunities for solution providers looking to separate the wheat from the chaff in an IT market that is becoming increasingly more crowded and noisy.
3X Systems
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Category: Storage
Product Line: Private Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery Appliance
Amplidata
Location: Redwood City, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: AmpliStor data optimized object storage solutions
ArcMail
Location: Shreveport, La.
Category: Storage
Product Line: ArcMail's Defender line of e-mail archiving appliances is sold worldwide and includes models ranging in capacity from 500 GB to 16 TB, with larger customized solutions also available
Axcient
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Axcient Data Backup, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solution
BridgeSTOR
Location: Poway, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Advanced data reduction primary and backup storage appliances for Microsoft Windows applications
Ctera Networks
Location: Petah Tikvah, Israel
Category: Storage
Product Line: Ctera's Cloud Attached Storage solution combines on-premises appliances with cloud services to provide an integrated, all-in-one solution for shared storage, data protection and collaboration
Eye-Fi
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Eye-Fi Connect X2 wireless memory cards
Gluster
Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: GlusterFS is a software-only, scale-out NAS storage solution for public and private cloud environments; it creates a highly available, scalable and centrally managed storage pool that scales to petabytes of storage
HEROware
Location: San Clemente, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Backup and Disaster Recovery Solution
ioSafe
Location: Auburn, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Disaster-proof storage hardware
Nexenta Systems
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: The core storage platform, NexentaStor™, is a software-only storage operating system based on Linux and a storage-optimized file system based on the OpenSolaris/Open Storage ZFS file system
Nimble Storage
Location: San Jose, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: CS-series storage appliances, which combine high-performance Flash memory and low-cost SATA drive technologies to handle primary, backup and disaster recovery tasks in a single device
ProStor Systems
Location: Boulder, Colo.
Category: Storage
Product Line: ProStor InfiniVault, a multitiered storage system, is uniquely designed for cost-effective, long-term retention of fixed digital assets online, nearline, offline or offsite, based on customer requirements
Rectiphy
Location: Murietta, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: ActiveImage Protector--software that backs up data from servers and desktops, as well as from virtual servers and their hosts
Savage I/O
Location: Batavia, N.Y.
Category: Storage
Product Line: DataBrick storage solutions
Scale Computing
Location: Indianapolis
Category: Storage
Product Line: Scale Computing StorageNodes Clustered Storage Solutions
Syncplicity
Location: Menlo Park, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Online Cloud-based File Management
Tintri
Location: Mountain View, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Tintri Vmstore
TwinStrata
Location: Natick, Mass.
Category: Storage
Product Line: TwinStrata is an innovator in enterprise-class data storage, data protection and disaster recovery/business continuity solutions using cloud storage
Virsto Software
Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Virsto One storage virtualization software
WhipTail Technologies
Location: Whippany, N.J.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Flash-based solid-state storage array
Zmanda
Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Category: Storage
Product Line: Zmanda Cloud Backup