Terascala Increased Y/Y OEM Bookings by 126% With Dell and NetApp

Terascala, Inc., in HPC storage management software, had more than doubled (126%) its Y/Y OEM bookings and had a record year for its business in 2014.

The company attributes its success to customers requiring shrink-wrapped HPC storage appliances with a fast open source Lustre file system in conjunction with TeraOS software to manage data, performance and reliability.

Terascala’s OEMs – Dell, Inc. and NetApp, Inc. – have also recently refreshed their solutions to keep them on the cutting edge of performance and capacity, that will enable the growth trend to continue this year. Terascala’s growth rate is an indication that HPC and big storage customers realize the importance of having intelligent management software governing their storage solutions.

TeraOS software is embedded in the Dell HPC Storage Solution (HSS) offerings and the NetApp High Performance Storage Solution (HPSS) for Lustre.

It has attracted quite a customer following with a list of names including Cummins, Westinghouse, Grundfos, Novartis, Honeywell, Beatson, MIT, John Hopkins University, Cornell, Translational Genomics Research Institute, and the National Cancer Institute.

Customers want to avoid the headaches that come with rolling their own HPC storage solution and dedicating resources to support it. To meet the needs of their users, they require Lustre storage systems that are available around-the-clock and optimized for performance.

“In our selection process, dedicating resources to standing-up and managing HPC storage wasn’t an option,” declared Damian Doyle, director of enterprise infrastructure and support, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Terascala is also expanding its global footprint with recent new customers in Europe.

“I expect Europe and AsiaPac to be growth engines for the company,” remarked Steve Butler, Terascala CEO. “Requirements around big data, such as I/O performance at scale, will continue to drive the market for Lustre-based storage appliances.”