Record Year Growth for TwinStrata

TwinStrata, Inc. released highlights for its fiscal year ending December 31, 2013.

Its record year was driven by increased demand for cloud backup, DR on demand and cloud archive solutions.

Corporate milestones

Total 2013 bookings grew to more than 250% of bookings in 2012.
Total of more than 600 installations of the company’s CloudArray cloud-integrated storage software platform demonstrates an increase of 77% over 2012. Customer growth driven by industry momentum within education, healthcare, media/advertising and manufacturing verticals.
More than 6PB of capacity under management – more than double the amount at year end 2012.
Increased headcount across the business, including the addition of leaders in alliances, marketing and sales.

Product milestones
In addition, TwinStrata released two major upgrades to its CloudArray product, which earned accolades including being named a storage systems finalist in Storage Magazine/SearchStorage‘s Product of the Year award and Editor’s Choice inVirtualization Review’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards for the Cloud Infrastructure and Platform category.

The upgrades included:

Better, faster DR and ‘fire drills’ with live DR testing and accelerated cache reload to speed testing procedures and data recovery
Worry-free on-demand DR to cloud compute infrastructure for VMware and Hyper-V environments
Enhanced automation, including calendar-based snapshot scheduling and retention policies, powerful bandwidth scheduling and automated backup with encrypted encryption key protection
Improved dynamic caching, with flexible volume migration and balancing across dynamic cache policies to meet performance, sizing and tech refresh requirements
Improved platform support including support for Cleversafe dsNet, EVault LTS2 and OpenStack’s Keystone technology

Jesse Jepsen, president, Runwell Solutions, Inc. of Reading, PA, said: “We’ve worked quite a lot with TwinStrata this year, both as a customer and as a partner, and we’ve been impressed. CloudArray makes it straightforward and easy to expand local storage with an unlimited pool of cloud storage, providing our customers with a robust offsite data protection strategy. Meanwhile, their simplified pricing model eliminates cost uncertainty, making cloud backup, archive and DR both affordable and predictable. We’re excited to do even more great things with them in 2014.”

Nicos Vekiarides, CEO, TwinStrata, said: “Companies come to us because of our unique ability to extend local capacity with on-demand cloud storage. Our vision of making hybrid cloud storage environments ubiquitous, affordable and maintenance-free has enabled hundreds of customers to meet current and future storage needs, whether they be backup, archive, DR or all around data growth. This tremendous year has really proved that out.”