Storage Startups: Many Roads, Many Destinations

Investor interest in the storage industry has continued to grow as businesses looked for better ways to manage their data, whether it was higher-performance or higher-capacity SSDs, new ways to manage data in the cloud, or better ways to handle object storage.

That interest knows no boundary, with storage startups popping up all over the world including the U.S., Canada, China and Korea.

Here's a look at 10 independent storage developers that either came out of stealth or introduced their first offering so far this year.