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Cloud Storage Start-Up Symform Completes $1.5 Million Series A Financing
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Mon, May 4th, 2009
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Its Cooperative Storage Cloud enables MSPs to utilize the existing capacity at their customer sites to extend on-site backup solutions.
Symform was founded in 2007 by veteran Microsoft engineers Bassam Tabarra and Praerit Garg. Its first product is the Symform Cooperative Storage Cloud – an affordable, enterprise-class data storage service designed for SMBs. Symform enables its network of Managed Service Providers to effectively utilize the existing capacity at their customer sites to extend on-site backup solutions with secure, reliable, and automated disaster recovery.
“Symform is solving a critical problem for SMBs,” said Steve Banks, Microsoft MVP and President of Banks Northwest Consulting. “Not only can all my customers replace their archaic and unreliable tape rotation systems with an easy, automated online solution, they can do it without breaking the bank. Symform will dramatically drive down IT costs for my customers while providing them with a robust and secure data protection solution.”
“This truly innovative solution will solve the biggest single problem that our network engineers face,” said Peter Hansen, CEO, UP Time Technology. “Symform will replace current back-up systems in the way that HP made printing more reliable and changed the industry by replacing dot matrix printers.”
“We see this as a major investment opportunity along several dimensions,” said OVP’s Mark Ashida. “Symform’s storage solution solves a major pain point for SMB’s with an easy to deploy solution along with a cost structure that is disruptive. We are enthusiastic about Symform because of the talent on their management team and the scope of the problems they are solving for SMB’s.”
“At a time when many companies are down-sizing and struggling for revenue, this investment is a rewarding validation of our business,” said Symform president and co-founder Praerit Garg. “We are passionate about providing affordable and scalable de-centralized cloud computing services for our partners and their customers.”
Our comments :
Symform has the same beautiful idea as Wuala: to aggregate all the local storage over Internet. Members give their local storage, and, in exchange, get online storage.
Price is between $10 and $20 per server. The service is not sold by Symfom itself but by channel partners only.
Data are encrypted (256-bit AES) and divided into redundant fragments using industry standard Reed-Solomon scheme. The files are automatically mirrored into the storage cloud, adding offsite protection.
Data is distributed to multiple destination nodes to ensure no single node holds all the data. They are sent and retrieved in parallel to maximize the speed of backup and restore.
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