Belgium Start-Up Amplidata Opens US Headquarters

Amplidata has opened its US headquarters in Redwood City, CA. The office will be the home base for the US sales, product management and support teams headed by VP Business Development Craig Stevens and VP Products Paul Speciale. Amplidata’s engineering teams and EMEA sales will remain in the European Headquarters in Belgium and across its offices in Germany, Egypt and India.

With the opening of the US Headquarters, Amplidata strengthens its position in the US market. The local sales team will target key customers with specific needs for large-scale, highly reliable distributed storage. The team will also pursue collaborations with strategic partners.

Amplidata provides storage technology that is ten thousand times more reliable than current RAID based technologies. AmpliStor requires 50-70% less disk capacity and up to 90% less power which leads to a total cost of ownership that is over 50% lower than current storage solutions. The Amplidata Distributed Storage System fundamentally changes the way how data is stored and scales up to zettabytes. Amplidata is a spin-off from Incubaid, a group of technology companies that focuses on data center innovations. The group is responsible for close to half a dozen successful exits, including Data Center Technologies, Dedigate, Hostbasket, Qlayer and Virtualbox.

Wim De Wispelaere, CEO of Amplidata, said: "We feel strong demand in the US market for our storage solutions so we decided to organize local presence to support that opportunity. The feedback that we receive from the market confirms that there is a real need for high available and scalable storage. We are excited to have Craig Stevens and Paul Speciale on board, who share decades of experience in the storage industry. They are respected storage veterans who share our vision: RAID technologies cannot deliver the current reliability and scalability requirements."

The new Redwood City office will host an AmpliStor demo infrastructure which will be made available to customers and partners for testing and benchmarking purposes. The initial system will provide one petabyte of usable storage, but there is room to scale out if required.

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