SimpliVity Bookings Grow 250% Y/Y

SimpliVity Corporation announced that demand for its hyperconverged infrastructure solutions continued to accelerate globally in the first half of 2015, as businesses displace legacy IT infrastructure and simplify IT.

As of June 30, the company grew sales bookings by nearly 250% year-over-year.

Growing Customer Demand
Deployments of SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure totals more than 2,000, with about 550 large and mid-sized enterprises counted as customers, nearly 380% year over year growth. Demand for SimpliVity’s integrated solution with Cisco UCS continues to grow, with 4x the number of deals this quarter compared to Q1 2015.

Recent global SimpliVity customers include: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and totes»ISOTONER Corporation in the US, Intersport Group in Germany, Monte Nissin in Singapore, the St Andrews Anglican College in Australia, Alten in France, PT Bukaka Teknik Utama Tbk in Indonesia, as well as five Fortune 100 companies, a top five oil and gas company, a top five global entertainment company and a top 10 global telecommunications company.

Global Business Expansion

• Expanding global operations has been a top priority for the business, as adoption for SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure is strong worldwide, with 50% of sales outside of N.A.
• The company grew its worldwide business operations to 21 countries. Through its global partner program, it does business in 60 countries.
• It built out its world-class customer support operations with two new support centers in Cork, Ireland and Raleigh, NC.
• The company hired 150 new team members (35% growth year over year) now totaling more than 550 employees, and growing at a pace of about 10 people per week.

Leadership Team

SimpliVity also added strength to its leadership team to support the next phase of its business. Two key executives have joined the company:

Jose Almandoz joined as SVP of operations to drive execution excellence across the business. He previously held various executive positions with Novell, including CIO and VP of global field operations. He also served as president of Novell, Latin America. He joined SimpliVity from Intralinks, where for the last three years he served as EVP, services, operations and CIO for the public company.

Randi Nichols joined the company as VP, human resources, to enable SimpliVity’s employee growth and development. She has 30 years of experience in HR leadership positions at technology and healthcare companies. Most recently, she was the VP of human resources at Masonic Health Systems.

In addition, this year has marked other milestones for SimpliVity:

• In March, the company secured $175 million in series D financing. With a valuation of more than $1 billion, SimpliVity became one of the fastest growing IT infrastructure companies.
• The firm was recognized for the 3rd consecutive year as one of Computerworld‘s Best places to Work in IT.

Amith Ganesan, architect, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, said: “SimpliVity is challenging the data center status quo with its operationally-efficient and cost-efficient hyperconverged infrastructure. As a premier hotel chain, our data centers serve as the backbone of the business. We selected SimpliVity because it combined enterprise-grade functionalities with the economics, ease of management and scalability of cloud computing to better serve our end users and deliver the world-class customer experience Mandarin clients expect.”

Preston Cruser, director IT infrastructure and operations, totes»ISOTONER Corporation, said: “Earlier this year, Totes investigated IT infrastructures to support our new ERP system, and SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure was a great fit for our requirements. Unlike other solutions, SimpliVity converged more than storage and compute resources. It’s a truly hyperconverged infrastructure solution that meets our need for virtual scalability across the multiple data center environment created to support our mission critical ERP system.”

Rory Chapman, director of ICT and St Andrews Anglican College Brisbane, Australia, said: “The decision to deploy SimpliVity came down to the excellent support provided by their partners, Serenity IT, and the ability for our school to be able to move into a cost-effective, high performance, hyperconverged solution, giving us a much better DR solution – whilst all being managed though the familiar VMware vCenter console.”

Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity, said: “As companies increasingly investigate the benefits of hyperconvergence, they quickly realize the difference between basic convergence of storage and compute resources with SimpliVity’s revolutionary innovation of virtualizing all IT below the hypervisor into simple 2U building blocks of x86 sharable resources,” said Doron Kempel, CEO, SimpliVity. “In just two years of shipping product, the market has been overwhelmingly receptive to the groundbreaking concept. We are at the beginning of a paradigm shift in IT infrastructure as progressive IT leaders see the opportunity to dramatically simplify their environments and focus on driving business performance.“