Another Israeli Storage Start-Up: Stratoscale
In hyper convergence virtualization compute and storage software
By Jean Jacques Maleval | September 17, 2014 at 2:58 pmStratoscale Ltd, based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel, already raised in October 2013 $10 million in Series A financing from Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. Following the investment, Scott Tobin, general partner at Battery Ventures and Adam Fisher, partner at BVP, joined the company’s board.
Israel continues to be a strong country in new storage – but also network – technologies with currently eleven alive start-ups in this field, a lot of them often with excellent engineers coming from the Israeli Army. We counted a total of more than twice this figure the last decades, many of them being finally acquired for huge prices like Diligent and XIV by IBM or XtremIO by EMC
Stratoscale only stated about its new technology that it “is building the runtime software infrastructure for scalable computing, technology that will help customers use all available computing resources and unify computing and storage across the data center.”
“Single-server solutions don’t make sense at scale – they are inefficient and difficult to manage, and the workloads no longer fit into single-server thinking,” added founder and CEO Ariel Maislos about the technology of his young firm. “Stratoscale is building the runtime software infrastructure for scalable computing. Under this system, each workload can run on the best matching hardware. All available resources are used, and a unified compute and storage infrastructure is achieved.”
It seems to be another player in hyper convergence virtualization compute and storage software solution for large data centres. OpenStack framework will probably be added.
Maislos previously managed flash engineering at Apple that acquired Anobit, in NAND controllers for smartphones and tablets, which he founded, for $390 million in 2011. Before that he was the founder of Passave, sold to PMC-Sierra for $300 million, and Pudding Media. He holds multiple patents in storage, networking, memory and signal processing. He mentors in the First Lego League and grows free-range chickens in his spare time.
Other founder and CTO Etay Bogner formerly founded SofaWare, now a Check Point company, building security appliances as well as Neocleus, in client-side virtualization products and acquired by Intel.
Note also in the team chief architect Zivan Ori, previously managing the development of XIV arrays at IBM; and software engineer Alon Horowitz who has worked in de-dupe, data replication and virtual tape libraries and helped at IBM develop many aspects of ProtecTIER, an enterprise-class clustered storage solution.