Stratoscale

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Stratoscale
Company typePrivate
IndustryCloud
Founded2013
FounderAriel Maislos
Headquarters,
Websitewww.stratoscale.com

Stratoscale was a software company offering software-defined data center technology, with hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud computing capabilities.[1][2][3] Stratoscale combined compute, storage, and networking hardware with no additional third party software.[4][5] Stratoscale has shut down with no details for the future of its products.

History[edit]

Stratoscale was founded in 2013 by Ariel Maislos.[6][7][8] Stratoscale is headquartered in Israel[9] with offices in Herzliya and Haifa, and offices in North America in Sunnyvale, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York.[10] Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners.[11][12]

Stratoscale raised $70 million from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco,[13] Leslie Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk.[1][14][15][16][17]

The company shut down at the end of 2019 due to lack of funding.[18]

Products[edit]

Stratoscale Symphony was marketed for software-defined data centers or hyper-converged infrastructure.[19][20] The software was intended to work on customers' hardware.[21][22] Stratoscale Symphony was available on subscription basis.[23][24] The Symphony suite could be deployed on commodity x86 servers to provide an Amazon Web Services (AWS) capability with the capacity to augment legacy VMware.[25][26][27] In 2016, Stratoscale released Symphony 3.[28][29]

Partner program[edit]

Stratoscale had channel partners, technology partners, and system partners. Channel partners consisted of resellers, integrators, and distributors. Technology partners included CloudEndure, Cloudera, Docker,[21] Hortonworks, Intel,[7] Mellanox Technologies, Midokura, OpenStack,[30] and SanDisk.[14] System partners included Cisco,[7] Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Infinidat, Lenovo,[31] and Supermicro.[32]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Ben Kepes (4 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M To Hyper-Converge Infrastructure". Forbes. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. ^ Chris Mellor (2 April 2015). "Ex-XIV execs expeditiously exit to expectant E8". The Register. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ^ Julie Bort (21 September 2015). "The 27 hottest Israeli startups of 2015". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ^ Jordan Novet (7 November 2014). "Why VMware ought to watch out for freshly funded Stratoscale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  5. ^ David Shamah (7 November 2014). "3 Israeli firms get healthy dose of Intel Capital funds". Times of Israel. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  6. ^ Chrostina Farr (28 October 2013). "Israeli entrepreneurs nab $10M for data center startup Stratoscale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Joseph F. Kovar (4 November 2014). "Cisco, Intel Invest In Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Player Stratoscale". Crn.com. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  8. ^ "Stratoscale Raises $10 Million From Battery and BVP to Re-Think the Data Center". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  9. ^ Yevgeniy Sverdlik (29 October 2013). "Israeli virtualization startup Stratoscale raises US$10m". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  10. ^ "חברת Stratoscale של אריאל מייסלוס מגייסת 10 מיליון דולר מהקרנות באטרי ובסמר". Calcalist. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  11. ^ "Stratoscale expands hyperconvergence market". 14 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  12. ^ Adam Hughes. "Impact Awards: Vote for the best Software-Defined Infrastructure Product". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  13. ^ Inbal Orpaz (9 March 2015). "Cisco's Winning $1.5 Billion Bet on Israeli High-tech". Haaretz. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  14. ^ a b "Stratoscale bags $32m from Intel, Cisco, SanDisk". 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  15. ^ Maria Deutscher (20 October 2015). "ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  16. ^ Simon Robinson (23 January 2015). "Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn". Computerweekly.com. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  17. ^ Asha Barbaschow (17 September 2015). "Intel Capital sinks $67m into eight Chinese companies". Zdnet. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  18. ^ Omri Zerachovitz (15 December 2019). "Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60". Globes. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
  19. ^ Yoav Vilner (14 December 2014). "How And Why The World Is Trending Towards Open Source". Forbes. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  20. ^ Niv Lilien (12 December 2014). "Stratoscale targets VMware with fresh approach to taking on the datacenter". Zdnet. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  21. ^ a b John Rath (10 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M to Build Docker-Supporting OpenStack Clouds on Commodity Servers". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  22. ^ Tittel, Ed. (16 September 2016). Stratoscale Symphony hyper-converged software offers cloud build. Buyer’s Guide. Converged Infrastructure. TechTarget.
  23. ^ Garry Kranz (4 February 2015). "How to make sense of the expanding hyper-converged market". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  24. ^ George Leopold (1 May 2015). "OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  25. ^ Gallant, John. (19 January 2017). Want to run your own Amazon 'region'? Stratoscale shows you how. Datacenters. InfoWorld.
  26. ^ Condon, Stephanie. (26 July 2016). Stratoscale ramps up its challenge to VMware and AWS. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet. www.zdnet.com.
  27. ^ John Moore. "Selling hyper-converged architecture: A channel primer". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  28. ^ Condon, Stephanie. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale's Symphony 3 enables AWS-compatible, hybrid cloud adoption. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet.
  29. ^ Wagner, Mitch. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale Brings Amazon Cloud On Premises. News Analysis. Enterprise Cloud. Light Reading.
  30. ^ Danieli, Yifat. (14 January 2017). Why Block Storage is Integral to Openstack. Tech. Techsophist.net.
  31. ^ Butler, Brandon. (25 August 2016). 12 most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure vendors. Hardware. Data Center. NetworkWorld. www.networkworld.com.
  32. ^ Kranz, Garry. (17 June 2016). Stratoscale tunes its Symphony hyper-convergence software. TechTarget. www.techtarget.com.

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