New Name in Storage Software: Catalogic Software

Company
Catalogic Software, Inc.

Locations  
HQs in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, offices in Singapore, Courbevoie, France, Rätingen, Germany, Amstelveen
The Netherlands, Gatwick, West Sussex, UK

Date founded
October 16, 2013

Financial funding
Privately held, investors being Windcrest Partners and Bedford Venture Partners

Founders and main executives

•  Flavio Santoni, CEO, has 25 years of executive IT management experience in the storage industry. Prior to Catalogic Software, he was CEO of Syncsort. Before that, his career included an eight-year tenure at LSI as EVP and co-GM of the Engenio storage group as well as SVP of WW sales, marketing, and customer support for the storage systems division. Before joining LSI, he was EVP and COO at Sutmyn Storage Corporation, and held various senior management positions with Memorex Telex in USA, UK and Italy.
• John McArthur, CMO, co-founded Walden Technology Partners. He was formerly group VP and GM for information infrastructure and enabling technologies at IDC.
• Walter Curti, CTO, served formerly as VP of data protection engineering, support and services for Syncsort. Before that, he was CTO for FalconStor Software. His career includes senior leadership positions at CA and Cheyenne Software.
• Mike Kuehn, VP WW sales, was with Syncsort for over 20 years and most recently served as VP of global channels, EMEA sales and business development. He played a central role in developing the NetApp partnership, the creation of NSB and the Partner Edge Reseller program that increased pathways to market with over 180 global resellers and distributors including Arrow and Avnet.
• Ira Goodman, senior director, product services, served at Syncsort as director of product support and professional services for all America’s customers. Prior to Syncsort, he held positions supporting mainframe and networking technology in companies within the telephone communications industry.
• Bob Sarubbi, senior director, business development and alliances, was previously VP of OEM sales at NetApp with focus on the IBM Global Alliance following the acquisition of the Engenio storage systems group by NetApp in 2011. Prior to NetApp, he was a VP of OEM sales for LSI. Under his leadership, the IBM OEM business grew into a multi-billion dollar business unit. He has also held senior leadership positions with 3ware and Cirrus Logic.

Technology
Intelligent data protection management by combining cataloging, backup, disaster recovery and copy data management

Products description
DPX, released in 2010, is a data protection software to make backup and DR across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Last year, it was expanded with bare metal recovery and virtualization capabilities and extended OS, application and NetApp platform support that combines with NetApp Ontap-based disk storage to create a data protection and DR solution for storage environment.

ECX Enterprise Catalog provides a centralized and scalable way to catalog and search the Ontap and VMware landscape, delivering valuable information that empowers IT to increase storage efficiency, accelerate the use of snapshot technology for efficient data protection and ensure compliance.
 
ECX software users gain visibility into their file and VM environment across all tiers, helping them achieve operational efficiency to control costs, identify unprotected data or indicate where protection may have failed due to an errant configuration, change or other issues.

Price
Solution starting at $20,000

Number of employees
150

Partners
NetApp, VMware, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle and other application and cloud providers

Channel
180+ resellers worldwide, distributors including Avnet, Arrow, Hammer, ABO, Hammer, IQI Matrix

Number of customers
1000+

Main customers
Coca-Cola, SeaWorld, Mutual of America, Bryn Athyn College, Campbell Alliance, CloudxL, Cogedim, Hoffman Group, ipc, Orion, Pand Restaurant Group, Sleek.net, UPA, University of Derby, AvMed, HKL, Universität zu Lübeck

Target market
Mid-size and large enterprise

Competitors
CommVault, EMC, IBM, Symantec