GRIDSTORE AT A GLANCE
Gridstore is the leading provider of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) for Microsoft Windows data centers. With market-leading performance due to all-flash storage and inline erasure encoding, Gridstore HCI enables CIOs to reduce infrastructure cost and complexity while achieving true scalability. Compared to other HCI solutions, as well as converged and traditional infrastructure, Gridstore is 6-10 times faster and costs 50-66% less with a higher density of virtual machines (VMs) supported. Gridstore is purpose-built for the Microsoft ecosystem.
Gridstore HyperConverged Appliances (HCA) deliver breakthrough density, economics, a superior price-to-performance ratio, and are purpose-built for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center.The HCA combines compute, storage area network (SAN) and storage into a single system that offers all-flash, bare-metal performance, efficient scaling, and a scale-to-fit design that eliminates costly compute sprawl.The Gridstore HCA is ideal for infrastructure refreshes and mixed Windows workloads, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), SQL Server, dev/ test, private and hybrid cloud and remote office/branch office (ROBO).
Gridstore hyper-converged infrastructure integrates tightly with the Microsoft stack to provide bare-metal support of Windows Servers and leverage Windows data services, including replication, deduplication, and storage QoS. Support for Azure Pack enables deployment of Private Cloud in a Box easily and cost-effectively, and integration with System Center provides single-pane-of-glass management, policy-based provisioning and orchestration of compute and storage resources at VM-level granularity.
Partnering with Microsoft, Gridstore is exclusively dedicated to optimizing Microsoft envi-ronments. Underscoring our dedication to Microsoft workloads, Gridstore has achieved an unprecedented level of certifications and memberships:
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■ Microsoft Gold Data Center Partner ■
■ Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance
Member
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■ Certified in the Microsoft Private Cloud Fast
Track Program, one of only 14 in the industry
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■ Microsoft Gold OEM Partner
Gridstore is a customer-focused organization. With a goal of 100% customer satisfaction— from extensive product development to outstanding customer service and support— Gridstore is dedicated to ensuring the acquisition and installation experience is flawless. As a channel-driven company, Gridstore teams with channel partners who share our dedication to customers and have deep product expertise in infrastructure and key Windows workloads. Gridstore was founded in 2009 by Kelly Murphy, Tomasz Nowak, and Antoni Sawicki, all of whom remain in key technical roles for the company.
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Gridstore Delivers Innovative Products and Services
Hyper-Converged All-Flash Infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center
CIOs are looking for solutions that will simplify their data center operations, allowing seamless growth and reduced operational expenditures without sacrificing performance and security. HCIs offer vast improvements in scalability, performance, management and VM density over converged infrastructure solutions. Gridstore gives CIOs more than first-generation HCI solutions with affordable all-flash performance and 50% reduction in capital expenditures with inline erasure encoding.
Gridstore HCI can operate independently or integrate with existing servers. Gridstore’s product line includes:
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■ HyperConverged Appliances
Gridstore’s 2U appliance includes both compute and storage. Each appliance has up to four nodes that can be compute and all-flash storage, or all-flash storage alone. Starting with as few as three nodes and expanding up to 256 with almost 6PB of capacity, Gridstore solves the data center scalability problem faced throughout the world.
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■ Storage Nodes
Gridstore offers standalone all-flash and hybrid Storage Nodes.
What Makes Gridstore Different
With a clear focus on data centers running Microsoft Windows, Gridstore provides significant cost benefits—with high per-formance and scalability—to CIOs and IT managers who are constantly challenged to maximize return on investment (ROI) while keeping total cost of ownership (TCO) low. Gridstore founders tackled infrastructure issues with a unique software architecture that makes it stand out among other HCI solutions. Gridstore delivers an all-flash, extremely scalable HCI solution at an affordable price that includes:
Native Hyper-V Integration
Gridstore is the only hyper-converged architecture that offers native Windows kernel integration, which allows the product to work out of the box and be up and running in minutes, not hours.
End-to-End I/O Control per VM
Only Gridstore delivers end-to-end, per-VM I/O control so critical applications meet desired performance requirements.
Efficient Elastic Scaling
Gridstore has a pay-as-you-scale deploy-ment model, which offers a very low-risk, up-front investment while delivering up to 50% lower TCO than the competition.
End-to-End Flash Architecture
Gridstore is architected for end-to-end flash performance at an affordable price.
Independent Scaling
With Gridstore you can scale compute and storage together OR you can scale them independently. You can also support existing servers so that the hyper-converged environment is not an island unto itself.
Gridstore Product Benefits
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■ Independent scaling of
compute and storage
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■ Predictable and
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■ Easy deployment ■
■ 50% lower TCO ■
■ 75% smaller footprint
Gridstore’s Windows Solution Sets
VDI
Creating a physical desktop-like experience is critical to the success of VDI, as is ROI. Delivering higher VM density and lower latency, with fewer servers required than HCI solutions based on a replica architecture, Gridstore is the preferred VDI solution for Hyper-V deployments.
SQL Server Solutions
Gridstore HCI is optimized for demanding database environments like Microsoft SQL Server. Gridstore all-flash HCI delivers the performance and per-VM I/O control necessary to enable virtualization and consolidation of SQL Servers where previously only standalone physical servers would do. Support business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) workloads underscores the value Gridstore offers.
Cloud
Gridstore offers a Cloud-in-a-box solution, delivering all the compo-nents required to quickly set up a scalable, easy to manage and fast private or hybrid cloud.
ROBO
IT managers turn to the cost-effective Gridstore data center-in-a-box solution for ROBO as they can implement a complete working environment in just minutes, consolidating disparate server and storage deployments into single systems where compute, storage, and virtualization are combined. This creates a much simpler environment to manage and includes a simple pay-as-you-scale model for seamless growth.
OCtOber 2013 Second Generation Gridstore Architecture Launch
OCtOber 2013 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Certification
May 2014 Microsoft Gold OEM Partner Certification
July 2014 Microsoft System Center Integration
SepteMber 2014 Industry-first All-Flash HyperConverged Appliance Launch
February 2014 Launched Accelerate Partner Program and Expanded into EMEA
DeCeMber 2014 Gridstore Launched Technical Advisory Council
July 2015 Microsoft Gold Data Center Competency Certification June 2015
Joined Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance January 2015
Joined Microsoft Technical Center in New York
July 2015 Certified in Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Program
GRIDSTORE AT A GLANCE
Proven Leadership
The executive team at Gridstore brings together decades of expertise in scale out storage, highly available systems, distributed computing, cloud computing and the business expe-rience of building technology businesses from idea to IPO. The team brings a proven track record of seeing and realizing innovative new technology markets. For more information about our company, please visit www.gridstore.com/about-us/company.
George Symons
Chief Executive Officer
George brings over 20 years of storage experience to Gridstore as a mem-ber of its board of directors and CEO. Mr. Symons previously held executive roles at Nexsan, Xiotech, EvoStor, Yosemite Technologies, EMC, and Legato. He has bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Management Science from UCSD, and an MBA from UCLA. 2015 top mid-market executive award.
Kelly Murphy
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Kelly brings 15 years CEO experience with disruptive venture-backed software companies. In 2009, Murphy founded Gridstore—a pioneer of software-defined storage—and currently serves on Gridstore’s Board of Directors and is the Chief Technology Officer. Kelly obtained his BS in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University.
Victoria Grey
Chief Marketing Officer
Vicky has over 20 years experience in technology sales and marketing, with a specialty in the data storage business. She held executive roles at Soonr and Nexsan, as well as senior positions at Quantum, EMC and Legato. She was named a “Woman of the Channel” in 2013, 2014 and 2015 , and was awarded the Tribute to Women in Technology award.
Ajay Nilaver
Vice President of Engineering and Product Management
Ajay has over 20 years of experience in enterprise technology products. Before Gridstore, he was Vice President, Products at Fusion-io, responsible for their $400M+ PCIe flash hardware portfolio as well as their Software Caching products. Prior to Fusion-io, Ajay worked at Brocade, Opsware, and Oracle. Ajay has an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Andy Hill
Vice President of EMEA Sales
Storage industry veteran Andy Hill Andy brings the proven ability to build and retain high-performance sales teams across multiple EMEA geogra-phies. Andy held senior positions at Nexsan, VERITAS, Sungard Availability Services, Sequent, Solid State Solutions (S3), and Siemens. Andy was awarded the 2013 Storage Magazine “Channel Excellence” award.
“Gridstore continues to be at
the forefront of delivering
cutting-edge systems to their
customers.”
GRIDSTORE AT A GLANCE
“GRIDSTORE’S ABILITY TO DELIVER A COMPLETE HYPER-CONVERGED SYSTEM MAKES IT STAND OUT IN THIS MARKET.”
— Arun Taneja Founder The Taneja Group
Gridstore Investors
Acero Capital
Acero Capital is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm focused on enterprise IT. Acero is currently
investing its inaugural $150 million fund, and has recently led investments in IT infra-structure, enterprise mobility, data analytics and enterprise cloud applications. Acero’s investment philosophy centers around innovative and new approaches to large and established markets, management teams with exceptional foresight and resource-fulness, deep intellectual property and an emphasis on capital-efficient business models. For more information, please visit
www.acerovc.com.
GGV Capital
GGV Capital is a $1.6 billion expansion stage venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley (Menlo Park, CA) and Shanghai, China. Founded in 2000, the firm leverages a unique operating model—one team investing across the US and China, the two largest economies in the world. The firm invests across a range of sectors including Internet/Digital Media, Cloud/SaaS and Mobile sectors in the US and China as well as the Consumer sector in China. For more information, please visit www.ggvc.com.
Investec Ventures
Investec Ventures is part of the Investec Group in Ireland, and manages the €75 million Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund. Investec in Ireland, a member of the Investec Group, is a leading specialist bank and wealth and investment manager in Ireland and is based in Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. The Investec Group is a leading international, specialist-banking group, with headquarters in Johannesburg, South Africa. The group was founded in 1974 and currently has approximately 8,000 employ-ees with offices in 14 countries. For more information, visit www.investec.ie.
ONSET Ventures
ONSET Ventures helps entrepreneurs transform great ideas into successful
businesses. We invest in information technology and medical markets, leveraging both disruptive technologies and disruptive business models. In information technology, we focus on mobility, new media and infrastructure software. Within medical technology, we focus on medical devices, drug delivery, diagnostics and healthcare information technology. To learn more, please visit www.onset.com.
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Partnering With Gridstore
Gridstore’s Accelerate Partner Program provides materials, resources and sales support, equipping partners with the tools needed to successfully promote our innovative solution. Gridstore partners specialize in Microsoft data center solutions including demanding workloads such as VDI, private and hybrid cloud, SQL Server, and core infrastructure. The Gridstore Accelerate Program enables partners to profitably expand their business and deliver true customer value.
We Keep Good Company
Gridstore solutions are deployed across companies of diverse sizes across a multitude of vertical markets including legal, healthcare, higher education, state and local government, and independent service providers.
“Gridstore is poised to be a game changer in the
hyper-converged market. Partnering with them just makes sense.”
— Dave Kawula, Founder and Managing Principal Consultant, TriCon Elite
“Gridstore’s complete focus on maximizing the Microsoft ecosystem
means our customers benefit from the performance, scalability, and
QoS the solution offers. It’s a real complement to our business and will
provide our customers a competitive advantage in their markets.”
— Jim Arnold, General Manager and CMO, Scalability Experts
“Gridstore’s all-flash solution erased all of our issues and beat the
competition on performance, fault tolerance, and prices. As far
as I’m concerned, Gridstore’s HCA is perfect for everybody.”
— Chad Dixson, IT Manager, Yavapi-Prescott Indian Tribe
