Stratoscale was a software company offering software-defined data center technology, with hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud computing capabilities. Stratoscale combined compute, storage, and networking hardware with no additional third party software. Stratoscale has shut down with no details for the future of its products.
History Stratoscale was founded in 2013 by Ariel Maislos. Stratoscale is headquartered in Israel with offices in Herzliya and Haifa, and offices in North America in Sunnyvale, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and New York City, New York. Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners.
Stratoscale raised $70 million from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Cisco, Leslie Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk.
The company shut down at the end of 2019 due to lack of funding.
Products Stratoscale Symphony was marketed for software-defined data centers or hyper-converged infrastructure. The software was intended to work on customers' hardware.Tittel, Ed. (16 September 2016). Stratoscale Symphony hyper-converged software offers cloud build. Buyer’s Guide. Converged Infrastructure. TechTarget. Stratoscale Symphony was available on subscription basis. 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.Gallant, John. (19 January 2017). Want to run your own Amazon 'region'? Stratoscale shows you how. Datacenters. InfoWorld.Condon, Stephanie. (26 July 2016). Stratoscale ramps up its challenge to VMware and AWS. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet. www.zdnet.com. In 2016, Stratoscale released Symphony 3.Condon, Stephanie. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale's Symphony 3 enables AWS-compatible, hybrid cloud adoption. Between the Lines. Cloud. ZDNet.Wagner, Mitch. (12 December 2016). Stratoscale Brings Amazon Cloud On Premises. News Analysis. Enterprise Cloud. Light Reading.
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, Hortonworks, Intel, Mellanox Technologies, Midokura, OpenStack,Danieli, Yifat. (14 January 2017). Why Block Storage is Integral to Openstack. Tech. Techsophist.net. and SanDisk. System partners included Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Infinidat, Lenovo,Butler, Brandon. (25 August 2016). 12 most powerful hyperconverged infrastructure vendors. Hardware. Data Center. NetworkWorld. www.networkworld.com. and Supermicro.Kranz, Garry. (17 June 2016). Stratoscale tunes its Symphony hyper-convergence software. TechTarget. www.techtarget.com.
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External links Official website