Start-Up’s Profile: Nubisio

Company
Nubisio, Inc.

HQs
Reston, VA

Year founded
2011

Financial funding
Received $4,181,464 million in private equity funding on July 7, 2012, investor including Bain Capital Ventures

Founders and main executives

•  Yousif Abood, CEO since 2013 and replacing Jimmy Garcia-Meza, led product services at AppAssure Software, a backup and DR software company acquired by Dell in 2012. After the acquisition, he transitioned to R&D, where he led product management and licensing for Dell’s AppAssure business.
• Jaime (Jimmy) Garcia-Meza, co-founder, recently CEO of Nubisio, is executive advisor for Click4Compliance, an e-learning company, and for Valens Semiconductor, in HDBaseT technology. He was previously CEO of FilesX, acquired by IBM in 2008. He held several executive officer positions at Silicon Image making HDMI a standard for consumer electronics devices, and pioneering the first SATA storage deployments.
• Dror Albo, co-founder and CTO, was formerly at Natix Systems, FilesX, and Foxboro NMR
• Yaron Laufer, co-founder and chief architect, was co-founder and chief technologist at Natix Systems, senior developer and manager of the server group at FilesX.
• Andy Groelinger, senior director of sales, was director of sales at AppAssure.
• At the board, there is Najaf Husain, CEO at AdapativeApps, who was founder and CEO of AppAssure.

Annual Revenue
Estimated at $790,000

Products
CloudStorm software for Windows 32 and 64 bits only, enables SAN like features on top of commodity cloud storage providers with integration of Amazon (S3, RRS, and Glacier), EMC (Atmos and ViPR), Windows Azure, OpenStack, Ceph, Google Cloud, HP Public Cloud. It turns existing storage infrastructure DAS, NAS, SAN into cloud-enabled bottomless storage, making cloud storage an extension of primary storage and delivering BC with protection and instant recovery. It can extend existing local storage into an unlimited extensible storage pool.

CloudStorm can run in existing infrastructure on any physical or VM needing dual-core processor and minimum of 2GB RAM, 10GB for desktops and 50GB for servers.

Features

• De-dupe and compression “by up to 70%,” according to the company adding: “In the traditional SAN environment duplicate files can be a big problem as users email documents to each other, and store them in shared location. Being able to de-dupe this data as it’s being written to the cloud is a huge plus.”
• 256-bit AES encryption
• Block and file level storage
• Intelligent local cache keeping only the data needed and accessed frequently
• FastFetch engine breaks up data into 64KB chunks, and only then performs compression, de-dupe and encryption. These blocks can be uploaded to and downloaded from the cloud storage service individually, which allows CloudStorm to download only the parts of a file that are needed by the application.
• File Streaming technology gives access to cloud based data at near instantaneous speed.
• Cloud access anywhere
• Cloud-based snapshots and retention (historical capturing of data placed in the cloud)

Patent
Patent Application (Application number: 20120284369, November 29, 2012) under review, entitled “System, Method and Computer Program Product for Managing a Remote Storage.” Abstract: “A method, system and a computer program product that includes a non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for: receiving, by a target entity, a plurality of information blocks and metadata that is associated with the plurality of information blocks, wherein the metadata comprises non-block layer metadata that differs from block layer metadata; and performing at least one memory storage operation on the information blocks before at least some of the information blocks are sent to a remote storage device over a WAN.” Inventors: Alex Fishgait, Yaron Laufer, Dror Albo, Jaime Garcia-Meza

Known customer
King’s Daughters Medical Center

Competitor
DropBox