New Californian Storage Company Discovered: Aparavi

We have never heard until now about a company named Aparavi based in Santa Monica, CA.

There are some information on its web site. On the first page you can read: “APARAVI comes from the Latin Apparare, which simply means to prepare. We exist to prepare businesses, and their data, for compliance in the new world architecture. An architecture where petaByte is the new teraByte, where on premise is an option not a requirement. APARAVI is built from the ground up to protect what matters most, on premise, online and in the clouds.”

And also:
“APARAVI is the software platform that provides a secure policy-driven, easy to integrate, open format solution, because we believe in zero button data retention. A software solution without the limitations of the box. Built for hybrid and cross cloud compatibility with open data retrieval. Here are a few ways we ensure you stay on budget and ahead of the game.

• Policy driven: Policies can either be set once by the administrator or control can be handed to specific teams, and can be automatically inherited from the platform to ensure that no critical data is missed.
• Full REST API:Native REST API means the program can integrate wherever necessary.
• In-file dedup and delta block incrementals: Manage storage locally and in the cloud, we utilize in file dedup to remove identical portions of individual files, as well as delta block incremental forever technology to ensure only the changed portions of files are moved offsite.
• Hybrid-cross compatibility: Any-cloud any-time for ultimate flexibility. Even allows you to copy between clouds and prune data at rest in the cloud.
• Patented smart data recovery: Allows you to select a time/date and the software will seamlessly recover that file from any combination of local, offsite or cloud storage – wherever it is, the fastest possible source.
• Multi-tier multi-tnant design:Any number of stakeholders can be given full or restricted access to the platform inorder to offer a service to, resellers or directly to your end users.”

There are some interesting names in this company, all of them coming from old storage company NovaStor Software AG in Zug, Switzerland, Hamburg, Germany and Agoura Hills, CA.

Adrian Knapp, chairman, is the current chairman of NovaStor and was its CEO from 2005 to 2007. In 1991, he was one of the founders of Dicom AG (Kofax PLC today) which had its IPO on the AIM-London Stock Exchange in 1995. He was also co-founder he COPE AG, a fully storage focused system integrator in Central Europe, which had a Nasdaq IPO in 1998. Later, Adrian was involved with Mount10, a Swiss-based managed service firm, which went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2000.

Rod Christensen, CTO, was previously CTO and VP of engineering at NovaStor. He served as VP of software development at CA, where he oversaw the 250 person team for sustaining engineering for all CA enterprise software, as well as overseeing development of the ARCServe Replication and HA and ERwin Data Modeler products. Prior to CA, he co-founded Yosemite Technologies, acquired by Barracuda Networks.

Jon Calmes, VP business development, started his career an entrepreneur, building and selling surf skateboards. Then he joined NovaStor. After several years he joined the founding team of MobileCause and become the director of customer success overseeing several hundred customer’s mobile fundraising success. For the last three years he has been back at NovaStor in a management role ultimately becoming VP sales.