Corrected: All Storage Start-Ups Finally Closed
As much as 173 or 18% of all of them
By Jean Jacques Maleval | August 21, 2019 at 2:48 pmThis report was updated on March 19, 2019 and includes the following corrections, the mains one being Wasabi Active Storage, Coraid (in fact acquired by Brantley Coile Company) and Kerstor (but IP sold) that didn’t close and no more listed below. Other modifications ones are in red.
Since several decades we analyze the storage start-ups, 170 or 18% of them disappear – not being public or sold – among a total of 975.
At the bottom is the list of the defunct ones.
In which business they were involved:
| Business | Number | % |
| Software | 71 | 39% |
| Hardware | 50 | 27% |
| Connection hard | 22 | 12% |
| Fundamental technology | 20 | 11% |
| SSP Cloud | 12 | 6% |
| Infiniband | 6 | 3% |
| Security | 3 | 2% |
| TOTAL | 184 | 100% |
Total is more than 173 as some of them are classified in more than one category.
In which countries were their HQs:
| USA | 139 |
| France | 10 |
| Canada | 6 |
| Israel | 5 |
| UK | 3 |
| Others | 10 |
| TOTAL | 173 |
Biggest flop investment
(total funding when known of $100 million and more)
| StorageNetworks | 205 |
| Sanrise | 203 |
| Cornice | 178 |
| Cereva Networks | 157.1 |
| DataPlay | 119 |
| CORAID | 114.3 |
| InPhase Technologies | 100 |
All Storage Start-Ups Finally Closed
(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)
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Start-Up |
Born in | CEO | Web site | Total founding in $ million |
Activity |
| 1Vision Software (Loveland, CO) | 1996 | Bruce Huibregtse | the1vision.com | 3.85 | storage management software and tools for files stored on removable media and on web; no more web site in 2010 |
| Abrevity (Cupertino, CA) | 2003 | Rich Preston | abrevity.com | NA | data classification software; to be sold in 2009? |
| Accelion (San Jose, CA) |
1997 | Warren Kaplan | spacedisk.com | 22+ | OS delivering APIs that couples storage to applications; former Spacedisk and SSP; no more web site in 2004 |
| Acirro (San Jose, CA) |
2000 | Jan Aggerbeck Jan Ag | acirro.com | 9.5 | distributed file system to simplify the management of distributed storage networks; no more web site in 2007 |
| Activium (New York City, NY) |
2000 | Yechiam Yemini | activium.com | NA | NeXtorage, virtual storage network software gateway: no more web site in 2004 |
| Advanced Storage Array Products (Richardson, TX) | 1999 | Bill Komiss | asapit.com | NA | StorSight SAN management software; no more web site in 2006 |
| Advanticom (Lebanon, NJ) | 1996 | Mark McNulty | advanti.com | NA | managed services, collocation, and disaster recovery solutions |
| agami Systems (Sunnyvale, CA) | 2003 | David Stiles | agami.com | 85 | NAS; founded by former Zambeel employees; formerly StorAD; closed doors in 2008 |
| Alacritech (San Jose, CA) |
1997 | Larry Boucher | alacritech.com | 34 | iSCSI TCP/IP acceleration card then network acceleration appliance in 2011; Boucher is “Mr. SCSI” and former founder and CEO of Adaptec and Auspex; closed in 2013 |
| Alpine Technologies (Dallas, TX) | alpinetechs.com | NA | storage subsystem | ||
| Anavient | 2001 | Colby Harper | anavient.com | NA | real-time, content-aware usage, rating, mediation, and business analytics software solution for storage services; in USA? no more web site in 2006 |
| Anthony Solutions (San Jose, CA) |
1999 | Ray Robidoux | anthonysolutions.com | 15 | storage networking solutions with own ASIC for SMBs; move from Korea to San Jose in 2002 |
| Aprius (Sunnyvale, CA) | Varun Nagaraj President a | aprius.com | NA | computer interconnect systems for data center and HPC applications; acquired by Fusion-io in 2011 |
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| Ateonix Networks (Fremont, CA) | Ben Chen | ateonix.com | NA | NAS with software in flash memory | |
| AutoVirt (Nashua, NH) | 2007 | Josh Klein | autovirt.com | 24 | data migration for Windows with file virtualization; closed in 2011 |
| Avyang Systems | avyangsystems.com | NA | virtual tape appliance | ||
| B-Virtual (Lochristi, Belgium) | 2008 | Kristof De Spiegeleer | bvirtual.org | NA | architecture for cloud storage service providers; became Amplidata |
| Backify (Vancouver, BC) | 2011 | Tarandeep Gill | Backify.com | NA | online backup; self-funded by founder Tarandeep Gill; born in 2011; closed in 2011 |
| BazinStor Technologies | bazinstortech.com | NA | probably born in 2009 or 2010; no more web site in 2011 | ||
| BeInSync (Tel-Aviv, Israel) |
2003 | Motti Vaknin | beinsync.com | NA | online backup service; no more web site in 2014 |
| BigStorage (San Francisco, CA) |
1999 | San Bogocn | bigstorage.com | NA | NAS, SCSI and FC RAID; currently division of Torque Systems; no more web site in 2006 |
| Bitcasa (San Mateo, CA) |
2011 | Brian Taptich | bitcasa.com | 20 | white-label cloud storage services and application programming interfaces |
| BlackBall (San Diego, CA) |
2000 | Bob Brown | blackball.us | NA | storage software providing descriptive metadata indexing for rich media files; Al Shugart chairman |
| Broadband Storage (Irvine, CA) |
2000 | Jack Staub | broadstor.com | 16 | filer solution combining NAS and SAN; no more web site in 2006 |
| ByteActive (Stockholm, Sweden) | 2006 | Lars Joenson | byteactive.com | NA | software to backup on Internet and local storage; investment in 2008; no more web site in 2012 |
| Calimetrics (Alameda, CA) | 1994 | Ken Campbell | calimetrics.com | 50 | multilevel CD and DVD discs; TDK partner;raised $25 million in 2001; closed in 2005: IP acquired by LSI |
| Call/Recall (San Diego, CA) |
1987 | Wayne Yamamoto | call-recall.com | NA | roots in HPC industry; funded by U.S. government grants; 2-photon recorded 3D optical storage |
| Candera (Milpitas, CA) | 2000 | Nilesh Shah | candera.com | 59 | multiprotocol SAN switch; networked storage solutions; formerly Confluence Networks; partially funded by CIA; closed doors in 2004 |
| Cenata Networks (San Diego, CA) |
2002 | Chuck McKnett | cenata.com | NA | iSCSI accelerator; founded by former JNI employees; no more web site in 2007 |
| Cenatek (Morgan Hill, CA) |
1998 | George Walker | cenatek.com | NA | SSDs; no more web site in 2010 |
| CenterBoard (Pleasanton, CA) | 2003 | Thomas Henn | centerboard.com | 12 | Virtual Operational Data Store; no more web site in 2006 |
| Cereva Networks (Marlborough, MA) | 1998 | Mahesh Ganmukhi | cereva.com | 157.1 | Internet Storage for storage providers and large enterprises with storage virtualization in the box |
| Certive (Redwood City, CA) |
1999 | Ford Goodman | certive.com | NA | platform to automate data storage and management processes; also in Bangalore; no more web site in 2010 |
| Cirtas Systems (San Jose, CA) | 2008 | Gary Messiana | cirtas.com | 32.5 | cloud storage controllers for WAN optimization; probably closed in 2011 |
| ClusterHQ (San Francisco, CA) |
2008 | Mark Davis | clusterhq.com | 13 | container solution for reliably running databases; closed in 2016 |
| Coalsere (Tustin, CA) |
2001 | Scott Ruple | coalsere.com | 4.5 | software based on its proprietary Distributed Intelligence For Storage; several executives from JNI; web site closed in 2006 |
| Coho Data (Palo Allto, CA) |
2011 | Ramana Jonnala | coohodata.com | 65 | formerly Convergent.io; founded by XenSource veterans; in hybrid and all-flash system with SDS networking |
| Constellation 3D (New York City, NY) | 1995 | Dr. Eugene Levich | c-3d.net | 35.9 | high capacity optical discs using patented fluorescent multilayer material; labs in Russia and Israel; assets sold in 2003 to D Data |
| Convergent Data Services (Greenwood Village, CO) | Brian Sobnosky | convergentdata.net | NA | virtual media manager software, professional and consulting services: started Tavata Software to focus on SRM software development; web site disappears in 2005 | |
| Corigin (Or Yehuda, Israel) |
1995 | Amnon Pressler | corigin.com | NA | data sharing product suite; also in US and Europe; formerly NewFrame; no more web site in 2006 |
| Cornice (Longmont, CO) | 2000 | Kevin Magenis | corniceco.com | 178 | formerly Convergent Systems Solutions; in one-inch hard disk drive manufactured by TDK’s subsidiary SAE in China; decided to enter in flash memory in 2007; closed in 2007 |
| Crosswalk (Westminster, CO) | 2004 | Jack McDonnell | crosswalkinc.com | NA | launched by former McData executives; grid storage software; closed its door in 2007 |
| D Data (New York, NY) |
2003 | Henrikas Iouchkiavit | ddatainc.com | NA | 15GB multilayer optical disc and drive using fluorescent technology; acquired assets of Constellation 3D |
| DataPlay (Boulder, CO) |
1998 | Steve Volk | dataplay.com | 119 | 32mm optical disc storing up to 500MB; IP acquired by DPHI in 2002; DPHI purchased in 2008 the assets and IP of DaTARIUS and resume operations immediately |
| Dcard (San Jose, CA) |
2006 | dcardinc.com | NA | 210MB to 200MB optical card and drive using an actuator | |
| Diablo Technologies (Ottawa, ONT) | 2003 | Mark Stibitz | diablo-technologies.com | 95.8 | software and hardware architecture with non-volatile memory for solid state storage for enterprise; bankruptcy in 2017 |
| Digital Appliance (Milpitas, CA) | dig-app.com | NA | fabric-attached storage solutions (?); also in Ra’anana, Israel; became Pillar Data |
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| Diomede (San Francisco, CA) |
2007 | Steve Iverson | diomedestorage.com | NA | cloud storage; offices in San Diego, Ontario (Canada), and Manila; no more web site in 2013 |
| DivergeNet (San Jose, CA) |
2001 | Shari Nolan | divergenet.com | NA | IB channel adapters, switches and bridges |
| Drop.io (New York, NY) |
2007 | Darshan Somashekar | drop.io | 3.9 | web site to store and share files online; no more web site in 2012 |
| Enargis Storage Solution (Ramat Gan, Israel) |
2003 | Roby Hartman | enargis.com | NA | IIS spin-off; iSCSI software and tester; no more web site in 2014 |
| epm software (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) | 2001 | Sven Hammar | epmsoftware.com | NA | self-funded; software for proactive, rule based monitoring of the application and communication with the storage infrastructure; no more web site in 2006; seems to became Apica Systems |
| Exavio (Santa Clara, CA) |
2002 | Michael Moone | exavio.com | 17.3 | SAN acceleration; also in China; no more web site in 2007 |
| Exponential Storage (Annapolis, MD) | Wick Keating | exponentialstorage.com | NA | network storage products optimized to deliver massive digital content files simultaneously to large numbers of users; formerly known as InfraSi; no more web site in 2013 | |
| Exstor (Menlo Park, CA) |
2002 | Mark Maxwell | exstor.com | NA | NAS; formerly Nexstor ; employees sued by BlueArc; no more web site in 2006 |
| FibreStream (Minneapolis, MN) | 2001 | Donovan Pederson | fibrestream.com | NA | Virtual Storage Gateway for file and block data over Ethernet; no more web site in 2006 |
| Formation Data Systems (Fremont, CA) | 2012 | Mark Lewis | formationds.com | 24.2 | software for enterprise converged platform; closed doors in 2017; some assets sold to eBay in 2017 |
| GeopDrive (Buffalo, NY) | Darrel Woods | geopdrive.com | NA | Online backup; no more web site in 2013 | |
| Glatz (Paris, France) |
2010 | Gaëlle Pinson | essilex.net | NA | long-term archiving media based on optical discs; formerly Essilex |
| GS Magicstor (China) | 2002 | David Chu | gs-magicstor.com | NA | one-inch HDD manufacturer; drive designed by RioSpring; no more web site in 2007; some assets sold to Excelstor |
| Hispread Technologies (St. Jacques de la Lande, France) |
Damien Koch | hispread.com | NA | GridStorage P2P backup & recovery software; no more web site in 2006 | |
| hVault (Boulder, CO) |
2012 | Art Rancis | hvault.com | NA | holographic disc storage system based on InPhase Technologies’ patents; no more web site in 2013 |
| Ikadega (Northbrook, IL) | 2000 | Michael Cahr | ikadega.com | 15 | server architecture merging computing, network and storage |
| Imperative Networks (Israel) |
2003 | Avi Shillo | imperativenetworks.com | NA | FC/iSCSI connection; formerly SANchips; no more web site in 2010 |
| Independent Storage (Niwot, CO) |
Rex O’Neal | indstorage.com | 3 | software handling file and block-level P2P traffic; sister company of Radiant; no more web site in 2006 | |
| InfiniSwitch (Wesborough, MA) | 2000 | Don Zereski | 29.9 | IB switches; merged with Lane 15 in 2003 to become Fabric Networks; shuts its doors same year | |
| Inflection Systems (Westboro, MA) | 2002 | Jim Pownell | inflectionsystems.com | 8.5 | disk-based backup appliance; became ExaGrid Systems |
| Inkra Networks (Fremont, CA) | 2000 | Sanjay Dhawan | inkra.com | 56.6 | new class of data center switch that enables the rapid, non-disruptive, and secure delivery of IP services |
| InPhase Technologies (Longmont, CO) | 2000 | Art Rancis Nelson | inphase-tech.com | 100 | holographic data storage technology; Lucent Technologies venture, spun out of Bell Labs research; Signal Lake acquires majority stake of the company in 2010; under Chapter XI in 2011 |
| Intermemory.net (Princeton, NJ) | intermemory.net | NA | software infrastructure for distributed applications, starting with storage systems (?); working with Yanilos Laboratories; no more web site in 2010 | ||
| InterModal Data (Santa Clara, CA) | 2015 | Dave Kresse | intermodaldata.com/ | 4 | disaggregated storage software solution for enterprise; closed in 2016 |
| iReady (Santa Clara, CA) |
1996 | Ryo Koyama | iready.com | 60+ | accelerated Internet and iSCSI protocol system-on-a-chip; assets sold to Nvidia in 2004 |
| iScale (Mountain View, CA) |
2000 | Bill Lee | iscale.net | NA | network storage management software (?); no more web site in 2006 |
| iStorage (Gilford, NH) | Tom Makmann | istorageinc.com | NA | iSCSI AND NAS for SMBs; in relation with iStor Networks? No more web site in 2006 | |
| iVivity (Norcross, GA) |
2001 | Tom Burniece | ivivity.com | 61 | 10Gb HBA; ceased operations in the 2006; some IPs acquired by LSI |
| iWitness (Boulder, CO) | 1998 | Frank Lambert | iwitness.com | 15 | electronic records management platform that accommodates all digital document types |
| Kuokoa Networks (Santa Clara, CA) |
kuokoa.com | NA | also in Mumbai, India |
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| Lane15 Software (Austin, TX) | 2000 | Alisa Nessler | lane15.com | 22 | IB management software; merged with InfiniSwitch in 2003 to become Fabric Networks: shuts its doors the same year. |
| Lexbox (France) |
2004 | Jacques Debiez | lexbox.fr | 0.5 | appliance to store and protect legal data, no more web site in 2013 |
| Lima Technology (Ville d’Avray, France) | 2013 | Séverin Marcombes | meetlima.com | 3.7 | Lima appliance for personal cloud storage; acquired by Atempo in 2019 |
| Load DynamiX (Santa Jose, CA) | 2008 | Philippe Vincent | loaddynamix.com | 25 | storage infrastructure performance validation; formerly SwiftTest; merged with Virtual Instruments in 2016 |
| MarQlin (San Jose, CA) | 1999 | Gib Springer | marqlin.com | NA | HDD in a tiny one-inch form factor; no more web site in 2005 |
| Matteris (Haifa, Israel) |
2004 | Marion Meir | matimop.org.il | NA | holographic media and drive; probably closed in 2010 |
| Mempile (Jerusalem, Israel) | 2000 | Avi Huppert | mempile.com | 27.6 | single-disk 3D holographic technology with one terabyte capacity; apparently closed in 2009 |
| Mendocino Software (Fremont, CA) | 2003 | Kathleen Holmgren | mendocinosoft.com | 33 | CDP software; no more web site in 2008 |
| Merlin Technologies (Burnaby, Canada) | William “BJ” Johnson | merlintechnologies.com | 3 | NAS backup systems and NAS digital video recorder; will move HQ to U.S | |
| Mobiliti (Edison, NJ) |
1997 | mobiliti.com | NA | backup software with incremental file synchronization; acquired byTacit Networks |
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| Montilio (Chester, NH) |
2003 | Michael Tsuk | montilio.com | NA | formerly SiliconNetworks; PCI adapter to reduce file sever latency; R&D in Israel; web site closed in 2008 |
| Mountain View Data (San Francisco, CA) |
2000 | Cliff Miller | mountainviewdata.com | 3 | OS solution for NAS appliances; no more web site in 2012 |
| Movai Technologies (Denver, CO) | 2005 | movai.com | NA | Domodrive “to access to a private and guaranteed-secure mobile content environment”; no more web site in 2010 | |
| Nanochip (Fremont, CA) | 1996 | Gordon Knight | nanochipinc.com | 47.4 | MEMS-based storage technology; no more web site in 2013 |
| NanoMagnetics (Emersons, Bristol, UK) | 1997 | Eric Mayes | nanomagnetics.com | 14.7 | magnetic materials using protein ferritin-based technology to replace thin film technology used by disk drives; patents for sale in 2006 |
| NBT Technology (San Francisco, CA) | 2002 | Jerry Kennelly | nbttech.com | 6.6 | software to backup on WAN; seems to have merged with Riverbed: no more web site in 2006 |
| NetCell (San Jose, CA) |
1995 | Andy Mills | netcell.com | 25.7 | host adapter storage acceleration silicon devices for the ATA and SATA; no more web site in 2006 |
| NetConvergence (Santa Clara, CA) | 1998 | Simon Folk | netconvergence.com | 5 | iSCSI NIC products using its Matrix technology software; no more web site in 2006 |
| NetDriven Solutions (Toronto, Canada) | 1982 | Frank Tersigni | netdrivensolutions.com | NA | solution to automatically backup selected folders and files to NetDriven Solutions remote data center; no more web site in 2006 |
| Netliant (Redwood City, CA) | 1999 | Larry Crume | netliant.com | NA | NetAccelerate software to encompass the complexity of selling enterprise solutions for storage, data networks, backup and security |
| NetOctave (Morrisville, NC) | 2000 | Rick Hegberg | netoctave.com | 23.4 | network security processors for the IP storage market; spin-out from Celotek; no more web site in 2006 |
| NextIO (Austin, TX) |
2003 | K. C. Murphy | nextio.com | 74.8 | PCIe I/O virtualization solution; closed doors in 2013 |
| NimBoxx (Austin, TX) |
2011 | Rocky Bullock | nimboxx.com/ | NA | software-defined data center, an all-in-one solution that puts “hyper-scale computing” mode; closed in 2015 |
| Nirvanix (San Diego, CA) |
2007 | Andres Rodriguez | nirvanix.com | NA | online storage services optimized for media; spin-off company from MediaMax; closed in 2013 |
| O-Mass (Oslo, Norway) |
2000 | Carl Espen Wollebekk | tandberg.com/o-mass/ | 12 | developing a 1.2TB and 64MB/s tape drive; Tandberg’s subsidiary; 12% owned by Imation; closed in 2009 |
| Olocity (Golden, CO) |
2005 | Kurt Krems | olocity.com | NA | open source storage management tools; raised $90,000; no more web site in 2010 |
| OmegaBand (Austin, TX) | 2000 | omegaband.com | 9 | IB-Ethernet gateway; other office in Herzliya, Israel; formerly Seagull | |
| Optilink (Malmö, Sweden) |
1991 | Frederik Herslow | optilinkgroup.com | 7 | holographic card; R&D in Hungaria; no more web site in 2006 |
| Optostor (Rätingen, Germany) | 1999 | Wolfgang Flakowski | optostor.de | 3 | holographic storage; no more web site in 2006 |
| Optware (Yokohama, Japan) | 1999 | Yoshio Aoki Yoshiko | optware.co.jp | 42.5 | 1TB holographic versatile disc; under Chapter XI in 2006; closed in 2010 |
| outpace.IO (Winder, GA) | 2015 | Yacine Kheddache | outpace.io | NA | like defunct CORAID in storage based on ATA over Ethernet; technical and operational business in Montreuil, France (Alyseo); closed in 2017 |
| Paceline Systems (Chelmsford, MA) | 2000 | Ed Mezzanotte | pacelinesystems.com | 21.5 | IB network switching |
| PeerStor (New York City, NY) |
2001 | Joe Pennino | peerstor.com | NA | software allowing users to mirror or replicate their data directly from their client/workstation to multiple locations; no more web site in 2012 |
| PetaLynx (San Jose, CA) |
2001 | Chet Brown | petalynx.com | NA | chips for storage switches; no more web site in 2006 |
| Platypus Technology (West Lebanon, NH) | 1999 | Colin Lillywhite | platypustechnology.com | 14 | SSD drives; founded in Australia; no more web site in 2004 |
| PolarBlue Systems (Burnaby, BC, Canada) | 2008 | John Seminerio | polarblue.com | NA | new generation of storage solutions (?); founded by former executives of Abatis and OctigaBay; no more web site in 2010 |
| Polight Technologies (Cambridge, UK) | 2000 | Michael Ledzion | polight.com | 5.4 | holographic disc; spin-out from the University of Cambridge’s Chemistry Department; closed doors in 2003 |
| PowerFile (Santa Clara, CA) |
1998 | Kirk Dunn | powerfile.com | 14 | DVD libraries; apparently closed in 2010 |
| Primary Data (Palo Alto, CA) | 2013 | Lance Smith | primarydata.com | 83 | SDS; merged with Tonian Systems in 2013; closed in 2018 |
| Pyxsys (Sudbury, MA) |
2000 | Dr. Georges Melhem | pyxsys.net | 7.5 | high-end NAS; no more web site in 2006 |
| Quartet Network Storage (San Jose, CA) |
2000 | Jae Park | quartetns.com | NA | NAS appliance to increase performance, scalability and simplify management; established by Netcom Storage, Seoul, Korea; web site closed in 2004 |
| Radiance Networks (Fremont, CA) | 2001 | radiancenetworks.com | NA | building next-generation storage network solutions (?); also in Noida, India |
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| RELDATA (Parsippany, NJ) | 2005 | Victor Walker | reldata.com | NA | unified block and file storage solutions over iSCSI; closed in 2012 and becoming Starboard Storage Systems; assets sold to SGI in 2013 |
| Reponix (Hemel, Hempstead, UK) |
2013 | Frank Back | reponixio.com | NA | enterprise storage OS; acquired by
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| RioSpring (Milpitas, CA) | 2002 | Thomas Su | riospring.com | NA | one-inch hard disk drive manufactured by with GS-Magicstor; no more web site in 2007 |
| San Sentinel (Paris, France) | 2010 | Mike Uzan | sansentinel.com | NA | SRM software |
| SAN Valley Systems (Campbell, CA) | 1999 | Bob Coackley | sanvalley.com | 60 | IP-SAN gateway; web site closed in 2006 |
| Sandial Systems (Portsmouth, NH) | 2000 | sandial.com | 65 | backbone switch; originally named Malachite Technology; dissolved in 2004 | |
| SANgate Systems (Southborough, MA) | 2000 | Patrick Courtin | sangate.com | 18 | enterprise storage platform that supports both open systems and mainframe storage environments; Israeli investors; became Sepaton in VTL appliance |
| SanOne (Phoenix, AZ) | 1999 | Boyce McCorkle | sanone.com | NA | virtualization; Alanco’s company |
| Sanrise (Dublin, CA) |
2000 | Dave Schneider | sanrise.com | 203 | former SSP; global storage software; filed for Chapter XI |
| Savantis Systems (Lexington, MA) | 2000 | Gil Hecht | savantis.com | 5 | switch to pool database servers; also in Herzaliya Pituach, Israel; former Bondera (?); web site closed in 2006 |
| Scentric (Alpharetta, GA) | 2004 | Hemant Kurande | scentric.com | 17.4 | data classification software; also in India; shut down in 2007 |
| Seval Systems (Palo Alto, CA) | 2007 | Winfried Wilcke | sevalsystems.com | NA | IBM’s spinoff; new RAID architecture with 2 or 3 dimensional array or “cube” for video and streaming; no more web site in 2010 |
| Sherwood Information Partners (Westminster, CO) | 2003 | Kevin Murphy | sherwoodinfo.com | 2 | storage server for the video-on-demand industry; founded by former Xiotech employees; became Atrato |
| SmApper Technologies (Kufstein, Austria) | 2005 | Gabe Gotthard | smapper.com | 10 | appliance with File Area Network software; no more web site in 2011 |
| StarGen (Marlborough, MA) | 1999 | Tim Miller | stargen.com | NA | switch and bridge products; fabless company; no more web site in 2010 |
| Steek (Bruges, France) |
2002 | Christophe Camborde | steek.com | 12 | software platform for storage service provider; formerly Agematis; acquired by F-Secure in 2009 |
| Storage Genetics (Longmont, CO) | 2008 | Kevin Magenis | storagegen.com | NA | non-volatile memory technologies and systems for mobile, CE, and IT industries; no more web site 2010 |
| Storage OS | Geoff Barrall | storageos.com | NA | no more web site in 2006 | |
| Storage Telecom (Paris, France) |
2000 | Patrick Bayle | storagetelecom.com | 16 | SSP and then more and more in storage software management, audit and council |
| StorageFlow Systems (Vancouver, BC,Canada) | 2001 | Harish Consul | storageflow.com | NA | SSP and disaster recovery solutions; formerly FiberQuest Networks; no more web site in 2006 |
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StorageNetworks |
1997 | Bill Miller | storagenetworks.com | 205 | SSP; IPO in 2000 and raised $260 million, then closed; the biggest clash for a storage start-up |
| StoragePoint (San Diego, CA) | 1998 | Scott Zimmerman | storagepoint.net | NA | offsite backup and data sharing; closed doors in 2003 |
| StorCard (San Jose, CA) |
2001 | Enrico Pesaroti | storcard.com | 14 | smart card including a 100MB to 10GB floppy disk; closed in 2005 |
| Storigen Systems (Lowell, MA) |
2000 | Denis Hoffman | storigen.com | 34.3 | distributed storage system for enterprise and service-provider networks; probably closed in 2003 |
| SV Systems | NA | disaster recovery | |||
| Swarm Networks (Cupertino, CA) | Denise Shiffman | swarm.com | NA | file storage that installs as appliance and grows without increase in system administration resources (?); also known as TeraCentral (?); no more web site in 2004 | |
| Syred Data Systems (Howell, NJ) |
1992 | Simon Fridmann | syred.com | v | CloudStor, virtualization and data management software; company moved from France to USA; no more web site in 2005 |
| Telaine (New York, NY) |
telaine.com | NA | agent-less CIM tool for SRM; CTO is Terry McCarthy; no more web site in 2012 | ||
| TeraChip (Palo Alto, CA) |
2000 | Rod Kay | tera-chip.com | 19.7 | switch fabric for SAN and MAN; also in Lod, Israel; no more web site in 2007 |
| TeraStor (San Jose, CA) |
1996 | Jim McCoy | terastor.om | NA | magneto-optical drives; closed in 2000 |
| TFStor (Denver, CO) |
2008 | tfstor.com | NA | NAS filer to optimize and simplify tiered storage environments; no more web site in 2011 | |
| Times N Systems (Austin, TX) |
1999 | Brian Smith | timesn.com | 15.7 | software to virtualize SAN, NAS and DAS; no more web site in 2006 |
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