Start-Up's Profile: OneCloud Software, Just Out of Stealth Mode

Company
OneCloud Software (OneCloud Labs, Inc.)

HQs
Boston, MA

Founded in
2012

Financial funding
$7 million from Charles River and Bessemer Venture Partners

Main executives

Marc Crespi, CEO and co-founder has more than 20 years experience driving product execution and revenue in growing organizations. Formerly he was VP of product management at ExaGrid where he was responsible for the product roadmap and strategy, technical pre-sales support, manufacturing, and business development. Prior to that, he held various leadership roles in product management, sales, and customer support at companies like Altiris, Bay Networks, and several start-ups.
Suresh Madhu, CTO and co-founder, conceived of the idea behind OneCloud when he saw that no company was truly addressing the need for organizations to simplify and manage on-premise and public cloud based elements elastically. He is a software architect and brings a skill set ranging from distributed computing, networking, virtualization and cloud computing. Prior to OneCloud Labs, he was an early member of VMWare‘s vCloud team. Prior to that, he was a principal software engineer at F5 Networks which acquired Acopia Networks, where he was a contributor to their ARX product series. He worked also for two years at Emulex. He has held a variety of senior engineering roles in various start-ups in the networking and storage industries.

Number of employees
20

Technology
It unlocks the power of the public cloud as a secure enterprise data center extension for DR. Through its patented Automated cloud Engine (ACE), it auto-discovers a company’s primary infrastructure and sets up a cost optimized replica in the cloud. Policy management capabilities enable business driven protection guidelines for applications and data, and the resulting hybrid cloud includes automation, scalability and efficiency for DR and BC.

Products description
OneCloud Recovery (OCR) software integrates existing data centers securely with Amazon Web Services. It automates the creation of a virtual data center in AWS, replacing the need for secondary data centers filled with redundant infrastructure. It works with VMware environment. Capabilities include:

Auto discovery of applications and data in data center
Auto setup of a replica DR environment in the public cloud
Policy engine for the management of RPO and RTO objectives
Data encryption and security
Perform full non-disruptive DR testing

Released date
Beta in 4Q14, availability in 1Q15

Price
Early Access Program offered at no cost while product is in beta. GA product will be offered as a subscription with pricing based on the number of VMs to be released prior to availability.

Partners
AWS, VMware (technology)

Distributors and OEMs:
Ten reseller and managed service partners for early access. No OEMs.

Customers
Current customers include pharmaceutical companies, law firms and service providers.

Applications
DR and BC

Target market
Service providers and mid-market to enterprise companies

Competitors
Among them Sungard Availability Services