A collaboration of storage industry leaders from Compellent, HP, LeftHand Networks, LSI and Sun have announced the Starboard Storage Systems, an innovator in Application-Crafted Storage systems for mixed workloads for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Starboard Storage Systems is led by CEO Victor Walker, from Sun, CMO Karl Chen, from LeftHand Networks, VP or product management Lee Johns, from HP, VP of engineering John Potochnik, from LSI, charman of the board Bill Chambers, from LeftHand Networks, and advisor to the board Dennis Johnson, from Compellent.
A collaboration of storage industry leaders from Compellent, HP, LeftHand Networks, LSI and Sun have announced the Starboard Storage Systems, an innovator in Application-Crafted Storage systems for mixed workloads for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Starboard Storage Systems is led by CEO Victor Walker, from Sun, CMO Karl Chen, from LeftHand Networks, VP or product management Lee Johns, from HP, VP of engineering John Potochnik, from LSI, charman of the board Bill Chambers, from LeftHand Networks, and advisor to the board Dennis Johnson, from Compellent.
Presently, Starboard Storage has more than 30 customers managing over 750 terabytes of capacity with the Starboard AC72 Storage System. Across all industries, mid-tier customers are served by a growing network of value-added resellers (VARs), which include more than 30 VARs producing results for Starboard today.
Starboard Storage Systems was created to address the unique storage challenges of SMEs, such as customers being overwhelmed with managing unstructured and virtualized data growth since most storage systems are not designed to support mixed workloads efficiently within a single-scalable storage system. This forces SME customers to maintain separate silos’ of DAS, NAS, and SAN storage in addition to making costly upgrades from one storage array to another. With Starboard Storage Systems, however, this gives customers the freedom to manage their applications rather than their storage by delivering Application-Crafted Storage for mixed workloads, which simplifies the manageability, boosts performance, and drives down costs.
