Company:Stratoscale

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Short description: Data center software solution provider with hyperconverged infrastructure
Stratoscale
TypePrivate
IndustryCloud
Founded2013
FounderAriel Maislos
Headquarters
Herzliya
,
Israel
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

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

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

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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ben Kepes (4 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M To Hyper-Converge Infrastructure". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/11/04/stratoscale-raises-32m-to-hyper-converge-infrastructure/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  2. ↑ Chris Mellor (2 April 2015). "Ex-XIV execs expeditiously exit to expectant E8". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/02/exxiv_to_e8/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  3. ↑ Julie Bort (21 September 2015). "The 27 hottest Israeli startups of 2015". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com.au/27-hottest-israel-startups-of-2015-2015-9#/#ourcrowd-disrupting-the-venture-capital-world-1. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  4. ↑ Jordan Novet (7 November 2014). "Why VMware ought to watch out for freshly funded Stratoscale". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2014/11/07/why-vmware-ought-to-watch-out-for-freshly-funded-stratoscale/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  5. ↑ David Shamah (7 November 2014). "3 Israeli firms get healthy dose of Intel Capital funds". Times of Israel. http://www.timesofisrael.com/3-israeli-firms-get-healthy-dose-of-intel-capital-funds/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  6. ↑ Chrostina Farr (28 October 2013). "Israeli entrepreneurs nab $10M for data center startup Stratoscale". VentureBeat. https://venturebeat.com/2013/10/28/israeli-entrepreneurs-nab-10-for-data-center-startup-stratoscale-exclusive/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Joseph F. Kovar (4 November 2014). "Cisco, Intel Invest In Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Player Stratoscale". Crn.com. http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300074674/cisco-intel-invest-in-hyper-converged-infrastructure-player-stratoscale.htm?itc=refresh. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  8. ↑ "Stratoscale Raises $10 Million From Battery and BVP to Re-Think the Data Center". http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/stratoscale-raises-10-million-from-battery-and-bvp-to-re-think-the-data-center-1845425.htm. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  9. ↑ Yevgeniy Sverdlik (29 October 2013). "Israeli virtualization startup Stratoscale raises US$10m". http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/israeli-virtualization-startup-stratoscale-raises-us10m/83116.fullarticle. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  10. ↑ "חברת Stratoscale של אריאל מייסלוס מגייסת 10 מיליון דולר מהקרנות באטרי ובסמר". Calcalist. 10 October 2013. http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3615509,00.html. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  11. ↑ "Stratoscale expands hyperconvergence market". 14 December 2015. http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/stratoscale-expands-hyperconvergence-market-with-symphony/379299. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  12. ↑ Adam Hughes. "Impact Awards: Vote for the best Software-Defined Infrastructure Product". Techtarget. http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/feature/Impact-Awards-Vote-for-the-best-Software-Defined-Infrastructure-Product. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  13. ↑ Inbal Orpaz (9 March 2015). "Cisco's Winning $1.5 Billion Bet on Israeli High-tech". Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-1.645916. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Stratoscale bags $32m from Intel, Cisco, SanDisk". 7 November 2014. http://www.businesscloudnews.com/2014/11/07/stratoscale-bags-32m-from-intel-cisco-sandisk/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  15. ↑ Maria Deutscher (20 October 2015). "ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance". Silicon Angle. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/10/20/zerostack-raises-16-million-for-its-converged-openstack-appliance/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  16. ↑ Simon Robinson (23 January 2015). "Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn". Computerweekly.com. http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240238655/Storage-an-investment-magnet-as-2014-funding-soars-to-179bn. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  17. ↑ Asha Barbaschow (17 September 2015). "Intel Capital sinks $67m into eight Chinese companies". Zdnet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-capital-sinks-67m-into-eight-chinese-companies/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  18. ↑ Omri Zerachovitz (15 December 2019). "Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60". Globes. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-stratoscale-closes-down-lays-off-60-1001310966. Retrieved 18 December 2019. 
  19. ↑ Yoav Vilner (14 December 2014). "How And Why The World Is Trending Towards Open Source". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/yoavvilner/2014/12/14/how-and-why-the-world-is-trending-towards-open-source/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  20. ↑ Niv Lilien (12 December 2014). "Stratoscale targets VMware with fresh approach to taking on the datacenter". Zdnet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/stratoscale-targets-vmware-with-fresh-approach-to-handling-the-datacenter/. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 John Rath (10 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M to Build Docker-Supporting OpenStack Clouds on Commodity Servers". http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/11/10/stratoscale-raises-32m-supports-docker-containers-openstack/. 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. http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/news/2240239501/How-to-make-sense-of-the-expanding-hyper-converged-market. Retrieved 3 January 2016. 
  24. ↑ George Leopold (1 May 2015). "OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades". http://www.enterprisetech.com/2015/05/01/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. http://searchitchannel.techtarget.com/feature/Selling-hyper-converged-architecture-A-channel-primer. 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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