StorSimple Announces Integration with Amazon,EMC, Iron Mountain, and Microsoft
Company Addresses Security and WAN Performance Issues with Cloud Storage
Santa Clara, CA- May 5, 2010 - StorSimple today announced integration with Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain,
and Microsoft to enable customers to seamlessly and securely use these cloud storage services with their
existing data-center applications. 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 such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files and Virtual Machines.
“With the upcoming launch of SharePoint 2010, customers will increasingly look to extend their deployments
with cloud-based services,” said Ed English, group product manager, Microsoft SharePoint. “The hybrid
storage solution from StorSimple is a good example of this; it shows how SharePoint customers can realize
cost and scale benefits by using the Windows Azure Platform.”
“Iron Mountain’s Archive Services platform is a natural fit for enterprises looking for simple but secure cloud
storage,” said Jaimin Patel, director of developer programs, Iron Mountain Digital. “By combining StorSimple’s
robust solution with Iron Mountain’s proven cloud storage solutions, companies can now integrate secure
cloud storage into their environments with the confidence that their data is protected by one of the leading
information management services brands in the industry.”
“EMC believes there is an opportunity and approach to cloud storage that delivers financial and functional
benefits to both our partners and the customers they serve,” said Mike Feinberg, senior vice president of EMC
Cloud Infrastructure Group. “By making our cloud infrastructure accessible and allowing easy API integration,
we enable our partners to respond to customers’ fast-growing demand for cloud-based solutions with greater
scalability, elasticity, and lower costs. We are pleased to work with StorSimple to embrace and deliver these
benefits to our joint customers.”
“Our relationships with Amazon, EMC, Iron Mountain, and Microsoft allow us to deliver the integrated support
and operational experience of enterprise storage with the business and operational benefits of cloud storage,”
said Ursheet Parikh, co-founder and CEO of StorSimple. “Enterprise cloud storage service providers have
chosen to partner with StorSimple, because of our differentiated technology that optimizes for applicationspecific
data-access patterns to ensure primary storage performance for target applications.”
The StorSimple Armada Storage Appliance is a hybrid storage solution that makes cloud storage appear like
local data center storage that integrates into customers’ existing storage and data management tools. Armada
identifies and stores all the hotspot and bottleneck data on a tier of high-performance Solid State Drives
(SSD), enabling the use of lower-cost SATA storage and/or cloud storage as primary storage. StorSimple
also performs real-time data de-duplication to minimize the footprint of the data stored and provides the WAN
optimization functions for cloud storage. All data that is stored in the cloud is encrypted.
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StorSimple Named to Leading Industry Analyst Firm "Cool Vendor" List
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.
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