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Stratoscale

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]

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References

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  2. Chris Mellor. Ex-XIV execs expeditiously exit to expectant E8 The Register, 2 April 2015, retrieved 3 January 2016^
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  5. David Shamah. 3 Israeli firms get healthy dose of Intel Capital funds Times of Israel, 7 November 2014, retrieved 3 January 2016^
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  7. Joseph F. Kovar. Cisco, Intel Invest In Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Player Stratoscale Crn.com, 4 November 2014, 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. Israeli virtualization startup Stratoscale raises US$10m 29 October 2013, 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^
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  15. Maria Deutscher. ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance Silicon Angle, 20 October 2015, retrieved 3 January 2016^
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  18. Omri Zerachovitz. Stratoscale closes down, lays off 60 Globes, 15 December 2019, retrieved 18 December 2019^
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  21. John Rath. Stratoscale Raises $32M to Build Docker-Supporting OpenStack Clouds on Commodity Servers 10 November 2014, retrieved 3 January 2016^
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  27. John Moore. Selling hyper-converged architecture: A channel primer Techtarget, retrieved 3 January 2016^
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