Do You Know Start-Up StorNetware Systems in India ?
Promising paradigm shift in storage and networking
By Jean Jacques Maleval | January 1, 2016 at 3:01 pmBeing in stealth mode, software company StorNetware Systems Pvt Ltd. was born last year in Bangalore, India.
It has less than ten employees.
Its authorized share capital is Rs. 200,000 and the Indian non-government company’s paid up capital is Rs. 112,600.
On its web site, it promised “Paradigm shift in storage & networking.”
More precisely StorNetware is developing a solution called Cloud In A Box, Cinabox. On the web we read: “The CinaBox provides data center infrastructure solution on a single platform which offers 5x reduction in TCO and 10x increase in efficiency and productivity of a data center/cloud service provider IT infrastructure. This compliments BC and goals. Unlike the solution offered by existing players in silos, our technology (patent filed) is a comprehensive one stop solution to serve data center infrastructure needs“. And also: “Our solution will enable server nodes at data centers to converge itself into storage and network appliance.“
It’s not enough to understand really what StorNetware is doing with its softare. Wait and see.
The start-up is in the process of filing a patent.
Profile of some executives (we don’t find a CEO for the company)
- Rajiv Ganth, co-founder and CTO, worked on backend firmware development for EMC Symmetric and was principal architect at LSI in charge of next generation HBA products. He also worked at Brocade. He holds patents in OS-kernel and caching with flash chips.
- Nagaraj Math, co-founder and COO, for 13 years in product development with Bosch, is expert in industrial automation, drives and controls, security systems and navigation systems.
- Ram Gopalan, co-founder, was in the past MD at Argusoft and co-founder and CEO of Agglut. At IBM from 1993 to 1996, he participated in various strategic initiatives with on SSD, drove the new SAS initiative and directed the efforts to license/spinout storage related technology from Almaden Labs. Previously technical product manager at Adaptec, he was responsible for developing the alliance with IBM for their PS2 SCSI HBA, architected ATA HDD silicon and adapter strategy.
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India is not a small country in storage with a lot of software developers working for foreign companies but with few start-ups (see below) and local companies.
Storage start-ups in India
Company | Web site | Born in | CEO | Comments |
Fractalio Data (Bangalore) |
fractalio.com | 2014 | NA | IntegralStor, grid based storage and information management platform that grows from terabytes to petabytes; formerly Datalifecycle |
Druva Software (Pune) | druva.com | 2007 | Jaspreet Singh | continuous data availability and de-dupe backup software for laptops, $67 million in financial funding |
NanoArk Technologies India (Hyderabad) | nanoarkcorp.com | 2007 | P.R. Mukund | WaferFiche to preserve permanently texts as images on silicon wafers; subsidiary of NanoArk Corp., in Rochester, NY |
QUADStor Systems (Bangalore) | quadstor.com | 2007? | Shivaram Upadhyaula | storage virtualization software; born around 2007 |
StorNetware Systems (Bangalore) | stornetware.com | 2014 | Rajiv Ganth founder and CTO | in stealth mode; solution called, Cloud In A Box, Cinabox |
Vaultize (Pune Maharashtra) | vaultize.com | 2010 | Anand A. Kekre | enterprise file sharing and sync and mobility, funding round in 2013; formerly Anoosmar Technologies |
Vembu Technologies (Chennai) | vembu.com | 2002 | Sekar Vembu | peer-to-peer backup; acquired CloudNucleus in 2011 |
About all the big US storage vendors have offices in this country to respond to the growing demand and dominate a market with very few local players like Mindteck and start-ups.
Other foreign start-ups like CloudByte, Datagres, MapR and PrimaryIO have also R&D in the country.
Gartner says that the Indian storage market is on pace to reach $426 million in 2015, EMC being top vendor (33%) in front of HP (14%) and NetApp (13%), estimating the overall India external storage market grew by 25% in 2015.
Just another sign: India is the number two country in term of visitors on storagenewsletter.com, largely behind USA but in front of UK, Germany and France.
We also discovered recently a new storage-start-up, Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd, formerly Datalifecycle company, is a private Indian non-government company incorporated on 21/01/2014 in Bangalore. The authorized capital of the company is 500,000 rupees and the paid-up capital of the company is 100,000 rupees. It designs a grid-based storage and information management platform, IntegralStor, that grows from terabytes to petabytes, without compromising on performance. It said to have a first unknown customer. Gunasekar Ramasamy was CEO of this company until May 2015. Sanjay Jayaram seems to be one of its main executive.
Most known storage firms are start-up Druva and $173 million Moser Baer, old manufacturer of floppy discs and then optical discs and solar products.
Among the online backup companies in India, we have found:
Ace Data
Athinio Data Systems
Ctrl4C Cloud Services
Cyquator Technologies (Essel Group)
E-storage
iYogi
KeepItSafe (J2 Global)
Netmagic Solutions
ParaBlu Systems
SysTools Software
Vaultize
Vembu Technologies
Vertex Online Backup