Datera Records 240% Growth in 1H18

Datera, Inc. announced 2018 first half business growth of 240%, seven times the industry growth rate as reported by IDC.

This growth validates its ability to deliver new levels of automation and performance in collaboration with industry leaders in cloud native, container-based applications and data infrastructure. The firm provides the data foundation for enterprises to accelerate their transformation to a cloud-ready future and realize 70% lower cost of capital and operation.

“Our singular mission is to enable the transformation of the core application environments of global enterprises with a 100% programmable approach that puts their applications in full operational control of the data that drives them,” said Marc Fleischmann, CEO. “I’m proud of the Datera team’s execution across every dimension of the business, including product development, partner collaboration and go-to-market, while remembering it all starts with customer success. We enable our customers to transform their data operations to become cloud-ready.”

Customer and Partner Growth:

• 240% growth in platform business first half of fiscal year 2018
• 133% increase in new customer acquisition, complementing continued global 2000 customer expansion
• Deepened collaboration with cloud-native ecosystem and container leaders Docker, Rancher and Kubernetes, flash memory powerhouses Intel and Samsung, and server-based infrastructure companies HPE, Cisco and Dell

Product Enhancement With 3.2 Platform Release:

• Expanded enablement of container-based applications, building on earlier contributions to the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and Kubernetes framework and ecosystem
• New levels of performance featuring 200μs latency and 200,000 IO/s per server node for the most demanding workloads
• Support for petabyte-scale, multi-tenant environments stretched across multiple data centers, enabled by real-time data orchestration and automated administration
• New S3 services for high-performance object data support, critical to cloud native and AI applications

New Executive Leadership Hires:

Hal Woods named CTO, former executive with Western Digital and Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Narasimha Valiveti appointed VP of product and engineering, former executive with Dell EMC

Chris Cummings named CMO, former executive with IBM Cleversafe and NetApp

“Transformation is the singular objective of today’s CIOs – transform the business for a digital future,” said senior analyst Scott Sinclair of Enterprise Strategy Group. “Datera enables this transformation through a software-based approach designed to optimize and scale the data environment that serves their applications in collaboration with key technology players they trust like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Samsung, Cisco and Dell EMC. Datera is at the right place, at the right time, with the right approach to enable this transformation.”

Datera further welcomes to its board of directors technology veteran Guy Churchward, with prior executive leadership roles at Dell EMC, NetApp, and BEA Systems.

Churchward said: “I’m excited to join the board of Datera because the team is delivering on the real promise of the software defined data center and has cracked the code on addressing the storage demands for tier 0/1 application workloads, which is no small feat.”

Datera deployed 100% software-based data services platform at Global 2000 enterprises and service providers in North America and EMEA.