StorSimple is a venture-backed privately-held company based in Santa Clara, CA, founded in 2009 by Ursheet Parikh and Guru Pangal. StorSimple's primary product is a data center storage device that enables I/T organizations to use public and private cloud storage

Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and use it for...

 as primary data storage. StorSimple's product, the StorSimple Storage Appliance series, is categorized as a cloud storage gateway

Cloud storage gateway

A cloud storage gateway is a network appliance or server which resides at the customer premises and translates cloud storage APIs such as SOAP or REST to block-based storage protocols such as iSCSI or Fibre Channel or file-based interfaces such as NFS or CIFS....

, also known as a cloud on-ramp.

StorSimple was most notably one of the first companies to provide I/T organizations with the ability to use public and private cloud storage services in the same manner that traditional, block-based storage devices were used

Block (data storage)

In computing , a block is a sequence of bytes or bits, having a nominal length . Data thus structured are said to be blocked. The process of putting data into blocks is called blocking. Blocking is used to facilitate the handling of the data-stream by the computer program receiving the data...

. Gartner Research named StorSimple a "Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies, 2010". Their approach is considered noteworthy due to providing a system that integrates primary storage data deduplication

Data deduplication

In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. The technique is used to improve storage utilization and can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent across a link...

, automated storage tiering of data (across Solid State Disk, Serial-Attached SCSI

Serial Attached SCSI

Serial Attached SCSI is a computer bus used to move data to and from computer storage devices such as hard drives and tape drives. SAS depends on a point-to-point serial protocol that replaces the parallel SCSI bus technology that first appeared in the mid 1980s in data centers and workstations,...

, and cloud storage

Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and use it for...

), data compression

Data compression

In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....

, and encryption

Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...

, with specific support for Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...

 and Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange can refer to:* Microsoft Exchange Server, an email server software product from Microsoft* Microsoft Exchange Client, the former companion client software for Exchange Server that was embedded into some versions of Microsoft Windows...

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