New Israeli Start-Up in Stealth Mode: E8 Storage

We just discovered a new storage start-up, E8 Storage, that states only about its activity:  “Since the 1990s, there have been just two dominant storage architectures. E8 Storage is developing the 3rd.” It is supposed to develop a storage architecture for the enterprise and software-defined cloud.

This firm, based in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, was founded in October 2014 and got a funding round in December 1, 2014 from Magna VC.

Wait for an interesting technology as the two co-founders came from another successful Israeli start-up, XIV, in virtualization storage subsystems – today at the heart of IBM’s storage offering -, co-founded by legendary Moshe Yanai and acquired by Big Blue for $300 million in 2008.

Main executives:

Zivan Ori, co-founder and CEO, was formerly chief architect at Israeli start-up Stratoscale after working for six years at XIV as R&D manager. Previously he was at McAfee, Onigma, Intel, Envara, starting as software developer of innovative things at Israel Defense Forces.

Alex Friedman, co-founder and VP R&D, worked at XIV as senior software engineer and then at IBM as XIV platform R&D manager. Before that, he held positions at Wanova, IDF and VMware.

Among other employees there is Evgeny Budilovsky, software engineer, formerly at IBM, Ravello Systems and Israel Defense Forces.