Datera Emerges from Stealth Mode, Launches Cloud Storage Software
Datera emerged from stealth on Tuesday with its first product, Datera Elastic Data Fabric, along with an announcement that it has picked up $40 million in funding
April 13, 2016
Cloud storage startup Datera emerged from stealth on Tuesday with its first product, Datera Elastic Data Fabric, along with an announcement that it has picked up $40 million in funding to back its plans to deliver scale-out storage software designed for DevOps style operations.
Datera’s storage software makes RESTful storage fabric for large-scale clouds based on APIs and policies from standard commodity hardware. The company says the operations requirements of legacy storage architecture have weighed down DevOps environments, while its solution enables “Infrastructure as Code.”
“In the cloud era, things scale up and down constantly. It’s always in flux. At scale, you can’t operate this kind of environment manually. It must be automated,” said Marc Fleischmann, Co-Founder and CEO of Datera. “In this world, customers want their storage fast, at scale, with a self-service delivery model. They can’t afford to wait for someone to hand-craft a LUN whenever a developer needs some storage.”
Datera Elastic Data Fabric natively interacts with OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware vSphere, and container orchestration platforms through iSCSI. It features a “grow-as-you-go” model, flash-first design, and heterogeneous component support. It also optimizes asset utilization and simplifies operations with multi-tenancy and quality of service for both cloud-native and traditional workloads. The service is already in production use by multiple large enterprises and service providers, Datera says.