Stratoscale

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Stratoscale
Type Private
Industry Cloud
Founded2013
FounderAriel Maislos
Headquarters,
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.

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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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