Atlantis Triples Customer Base to 200

Atlantis Computing, Inc. has surpassed the 200 customer milestone following a year of record growth and surpassed the quarter of a million licenses sold to date.

In 2012, it more than tripled its customer base, and received more than a dozen prestigious industry awards and accolades including Best of VMworld U.S., Best of VMworld Europe, Best of Citrix Synergy, Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com’s 2012 Product of the Year award and CRN’s Virtualization 100 List, while releasing breakthrough product innovations such as In-Memory Storage technology to enable the efficient virtualization of storage-intensive applications.

"2012 was a banner year for Atlantis Computing with accelerating growth of our customer base with some of the largest desktop virtualization deployments in the world. Our innovations in the area of In-Memory Storage resulted in Atlantis sweeping the most prestigious industry awards," said Bernard Harguindeguy, president and CEO of Atlantis Computing. "The fact that we have been able to more than quadruple our bookings over the last 2 years and fund our growth through our customers’ business is a testament to the value that we are delivering to our customers."

Atlantis Computing was founded in 2006 with the vision of optimizing the way storage-intensive applications use data center storage when virtualized – to reduce the amount of storage consumed, optimize use of shared storage, boost performance, and reduce operationalization risks. Today, Atlantis ILIO enables the deployment of both VDI and virtualized XenApp with no physical storage. Deployments use server RAM as primary storage leading to better-than-PC user experience at a lower cost, while automating installation, storage sizing and datastore creation to reduce implementation risks and deliver working deployments faster. ILIO will soon be available for cloud-scale deployments of server applications such as databases, mail servers, collaboration and Big Data. ILIO is hypervisor and storage agnostic.

Atlantis Computing’s deployments range from 25 users to 100,000 users across all verticals, with a share in mission-critical settings such as hospitals, government agencies, and investment banking. Atlantis Computing has more than 200 customers around the world including JP Morgan Chase & Co., Colt – a large EMEA service provider, CBRE, Mid Coast hospital, Washington Trust Bank, Hawaii Medical Services Association (HMSA), AIG, and Qualcomm.

2012 Milestones Include:

Rapid Customer Growth

• added 128 new customers including AIG; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota; Jackson National Life; the U.S. Army – 7 hospitals; over a dozen NY, Toronto, Sydney, and London based Financial services organizations; many small to large schools and universities; several large retailers, manufacturing, and construction companies; over a dozen government agencies; many small and large law firms; service providers; high technology companies; numerous healthcare providers and hospitals, large insurance companies, etc.
• had more than 40 repeat customers such as CIBC, Qualcomm, and GDF Suez Energy as they scaled their deployments.
• sold more than 100,000 licenses in 2012 and more than a quarter of a million licenses to date.

Channel Partner

• saw more than 80% of its transactions go through its channel partners.
• added 68 new partners in 2012, now totaling more than 130 worldwide.
• World Wide Technologies was awarded the U.S. Amy Desktop Virtualization Project with ILIO for 11,000 users spanning 7 military hospitals in the U.S. and Europe.
• GreenPages streamlined Mid Coast hospital urgent care desktops using VMware View, Cisco UCS and ILIO.
• Centralis helped Fellowes cut VDI storage costs, improve desktop performance and scale their deployment with ILIO.

Partnerships and Certifications

• Citrix – Atlantis Computing is a Citrix Ready Premier Partner and recently published a joint reference architecture that included Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper-V, and ILIO Diskless VDI.
• VMware – Atlantis Computing was named VMware TAP Elite partner and added to the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Atlantis Computing was a key partner in the VMware Mobile Secure Desktop solution to improve the user experience while driving down costs. VMware also commissioned a joint reference architecture with VMware View 5.1 and ILIO Diskless VDI, which was tested by GlassHouse in VMware Labs.
• Cisco – Atlantis Computing was a featured partner of the Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) architecture for desktop computing and collaboration. A Cisco UCS and ILIO joint solution bundle was also launched for the Japanese market. Cisco certified ILIO for use in the Cisco Integrated Service Routers (ISR) with Cisco UCS E-series server modules as part of its ‘Office in a Box’ branch office VDI solution. Atlantis Computing was made a Cloud Connect partner.
• Dell – Atlantis Computing entered into a worldwide reseller agreement with Dell.
• VCE – Atlantis Computing was certified as VCE Vblock Ready with key customer wins including Colt and Macquarie Bank.
• Fusion-io – Atlantis Computing entered into a partnership with Fusion-io to provide a joint solution for persistent virtual desktops.

Industry Accolades and Awards

• won the Best of VMworld award at VMworld 2012 U.S. for ILIO Diskless VDI in the desktop virtualization category.
• Colt Technology Services won the Best of VMworld Europe award as the best desktop virtualization deployment for its 10,000 users Agilisys Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) project deployed with ILIO Diskless VDI.
• won the Citrix Ready Best of Synergy award at Citrix Synergy 2012 Europe for ILIO in the desktop category.
• won the 2012 Product of the Year award from Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com.
• Atlantis Computing European Lead Solutions Consultant Jim Moyle was awarded the Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) Award in 2012, becoming one of just 10 virtualization experts worldwide to receive the CTP award that year.
• was named one of the Coolest Startups by both CloudTimes and CRN.
• was included on CRN’s Virtualization 100 list for its high performance, cost-effective, easy to deploy solution today.
• was named a Hot Storage Startup by EnterpriseStorageForum.
• was listed as one of the vendors gaining mindshare by Cloud Computing Journal.
• was selected to be part of GigaOM’s Structure LaunchPad and launched ILIO FlexCloud 1.0 onstage – the launch was called one of the hottest product launches.

Product Innovations

• released ILIO Diskless VDI to deliver In-Memory storage for stateless virtual desktops – enabling fully automated deployments with no physical storage or SSDs
• released support for Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer.
• released ILIO for Citrix XenApp – with In-Memory technology to enable XenApp virtualization with no physical storage or SSDs, while automating storage sizing and deployment
• released ILIO Center with Deployment Services to fully automate multi-rack deployments and enable DR for thousands of users. In service in some of the largest deployments today
• launched ILIO FlexCloud 1.0 which makes it possible to deliver server workloads such as databases, mail servers, file servers and big data on-demand in a virtual data center without the traditional constraints of storage.