Cloud Computing: ClearSky Combining Storage, Networking to Advance IT Infrastructure

August 25, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Xconomy. Author: Gregory T. Huang.

The Boston tech industry is entering a new age of enterprise IT. Long known for its companies in data storage, networking, and business software, the local sector is seeing a boom in startups that have a new spin on these traditional fields. One of them is ClearSky Data, a roughly two-year-old effort from founders Ellen Rubin and Laz Vekiarides (pictured) that is finally talking today about what it’s building.

Rubin, the company’s CEO, previously worked at Netezza and co-founded CloudSwitch, while Vekiarides was a veteran of EqualLogic. All of those companies were eventually acquired for big money—by IBM, Verizon, and Dell, respectively. ClearSky raised $12 million from General Catalyst and Highland Capital Partners early last year…

The 30-person company is building what it calls a “global storage network” for Fortune 1000 enterprise companies. This network is a “fully managed service” for primary data storage, Rubin says, and it’s managed locally from metro areas starting with Boston, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas…

Read more from the source @ http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/08/25/clearsky-combining-storage-networking-to-advance-it-infrastructure/