Stratoscale

Stratoscale

Company type	Private
Industry	Cloud
Founded	2013
Founder	Ariel Maislos
Headquarters	Herzliya , Israel
Website	www.stratoscale.com

Stratoscale was a software company offering software-defined data center technology, with hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud computing capabilities.^[1][2][3] Stratoscale combined compute, storage, and networking hardware with no additional third party software.^[4][5] Stratoscale has shut down with no details for the future of its products.

History

Stratoscale was founded in 2013 by Ariel Maislos.^[6][7][8] Stratoscale is headquartered in Israel^[9] with offices in Herzliya and Haifa, and offices in North America in Sunnyvale, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York.^[10] Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners.^[11][12]

Stratoscale raised $70 million from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco,^[13] Leslie Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk.^{[1][14][15][16][17]}

The company shut down at the end of 2019 due to lack of funding.^[18]

Products

Stratoscale Symphony was marketed for software-defined data centers or hyper-converged infrastructure.^[19][20] The software was intended to work on customers' hardware.^[21][22] Stratoscale Symphony was available on subscription basis.^[23][24] The Symphony suite could be deployed on commodity x86 servers to provide an Amazon Web Services (AWS) capability with the capacity to augment legacy VMware.^[25][26][27] In 2016, Stratoscale released Symphony 3.^[28][29]

Partner program

Stratoscale had channel partners, technology partners, and system partners. Channel partners consisted of resellers, integrators, and distributors. Technology partners included CloudEndure, Cloudera, Docker,^[21] Hortonworks, Intel,^[7] Mellanox Technologies, Midokura, OpenStack,^[30] and SanDisk.^[14] System partners included Cisco,^[7] Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Infinidat, Lenovo,^[31] and Supermicro.^[32]

References

1. Ben Kepes (4 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M To Hyper-Converge Infrastructure". Forbes. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
2. Chris Mellor (2 April 2015). "Ex-XIV execs expeditiously exit to expectant E8". The Register. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
3. Julie Bort (21 September 2015). "The 27 hottest Israeli startups of 2015". Business Insider. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
4. Jordan Novet (7 November 2014). "Why VMware ought to watch out for freshly funded Stratoscale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
5. David Shamah (7 November 2014). "3 Israeli firms get healthy dose of Intel Capital funds". Times of Israel. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
6. Chrostina Farr (28 October 2013). "Israeli entrepreneurs nab $10M for data center startup Stratoscale". VentureBeat. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
7. Joseph F. Kovar (4 November 2014). "Cisco, Intel Invest In Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Player Stratoscale". Crn.com. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
8. "Stratoscale Raises $10 Million From Battery and BVP to Re-Think the Data Center". 28 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
9. Yevgeniy Sverdlik (29 October 2013). "Israeli virtualization startup Stratoscale raises US$10m". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
10. "חברת Stratoscale של אריאל מייסלוס מגייסת 10 מיליון דולר מהקרנות באטרי ובסמר". Calcalist. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
11. "Stratoscale expands hyperconvergence market". 14 December 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
12. Adam Hughes. "Impact Awards: Vote for the best Software-Defined Infrastructure Product". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
13. Inbal Orpaz (9 March 2015). "Cisco's Winning $1.5 Billion Bet on Israeli High-tech". Haaretz. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
14. "Stratoscale bags $32m from Intel, Cisco, SanDisk". 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
15. Maria Deutscher (20 October 2015). "ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance". Silicon Angle. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
16. Simon Robinson (23 January 2015). "Storage an investment magnet as 2014 funding soars to $1.79bn". Computerweekly.com. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
17. Asha Barbaschow (17 September 2015). "Intel Capital sinks $67m into eight Chinese companies". Zdnet. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
18. Omri Zerachovitz (15 December 2019). "Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60". Globes. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
19. Yoav Vilner (14 December 2014). "How And Why The World Is Trending Towards Open Source". Forbes. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
20. Niv Lilien (12 December 2014). "Stratoscale targets VMware with fresh approach to taking on the datacenter". Zdnet. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
21. John Rath (10 November 2014). "Stratoscale Raises $32M to Build Docker-Supporting OpenStack Clouds on Commodity Servers". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
22. Tittel, Ed. (16 September 2016). Stratoscale Symphony hyper-converged software offers cloud build. Buyer’s Guide. Converged Infrastructure. TechTarget.
23. Garry Kranz (4 February 2015). "How to make sense of the expanding hyper-converged market". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
24. George Leopold (1 May 2015). "OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
25. Gallant, John. (19 January 2017). Want to run your own Amazon 'region'? Stratoscale shows you how. Datacenters. InfoWorld.
26. Condon, Stephanie. (26 July 2016). Stratoscale ramps up its challenge to VMware and AWS. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet. www.zdnet.com.
27. John Moore. "Selling hyper-converged architecture: A channel primer". Techtarget. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
28. Condon, Stephanie. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale's Symphony 3 enables AWS-compatible, hybrid cloud adoption. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet.
29. Wagner, Mitch. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale Brings Amazon Cloud On Premises. News Analysis. Enterprise Cloud. Light Reading.
30. Danieli, Yifat. (14 January 2017). Why Block Storage is Integral to Openstack. Tech. Techsophist.net.
31. Butler, Brandon. (25 August 2016). 12 most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure vendors. Hardware. Data Center. NetworkWorld. www.networkworld.com.
32. Kranz, Garry. (17 June 2016). Stratoscale tunes its Symphony hyper-convergence software. TechTarget. www.techtarget.com.

External links

• Official website