SimpliVity Grew Sales Bookings by 50% Q/Q

SimpliVity Corporation announced continued rapid growth through Q3 2015.

As of September 30, the company grew sales bookings by 50% quarter over quarter, with more than 50% of revenues coming from outside North America.

Achieving New Dimensions of Scale and Performance
SimpliVity signed its biggest customer deal to date in Q3 – a service provider implementing more than 200 OmniStack Integrated Solutions with Cisco UCS – demonstrating the company’s ability to scale to large deployments. According to an ESG Lab Validation Report, SimpliVity, with its OmniStack version 3.0 platform launched in early September, delivers performance and scale for mission-critical applications in a hyper-converged infrastructure environment. Additionally, SimpliVity advanced its success in Fortune 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies, realizing an increase in the average end user deal size.

Expanding Strategic Alliances for Market Leadership
Delivering on its promise of being x86 server agnostic and creating the world’s most ubiquitous hyperconverged offering, SimpliVity continued to expand its partner ecosystem in Q3. Unit sales of SimpliVity’s OmniStack Integrated Solution with Cisco UCS increased more than 200% quarter over quarter. SimpliVity also announced availability of the company’s OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform as an integrated solution with Lenovo System x3650 servers, and completed initial customer transactions in both Americas and EMEA within weeks.

Technology Leadership
In August 2015, SimpliVity launched the third generation of its OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform – its most robust product launch since the company was founded. OmniStack 3.0 improves multi-site deployments with a new Unified Protected ROBO (remote office, branch office) solution, improves performance and scalability for consolidated single-site deployments, and extends foundational, built-in data protection by being the first hyper-converged infrastructure vendor to deliver file-level restore capabilities. In conjunction with the launch, and as a proof-point of the platform’s maturity, SimpliVity revealed a complete guarantee – SimpliVity HyperGuarantee – which includes assurances in five key functionalities: data efficiency, protection, simplicity, management and availability.

Expanding Global Operations
Global operations continued to be a top priority, with SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure in high-demand worldwide and more than 50% of sales continuing to come from outside of North America. Thus far in 2015, SimpliVity has increased its reseller footprint to more than 60 countries, expanded its employee base to 21 countries and grown its network to 700 partners. The company also introduced two customer centers in Cork, Ireland and Raleigh, NC.

Realizing Corporate Momentum
Now totaling more than 630 employees, SimpliVity has hired more than 150 team members within the past year, representing 35% growth year over year. The company added Tom Beaudoin to its employee roster as CFO, and is on target to reach 750 total global employees by year end.

Q3 2015 marked additional achievements for the company including:

• CEO Doron Kempel selected as a 2015 Boston Business Journal Innovation All Star
• SimpliVity honored as a 2015 CRN Emerging Vendor
• CEO Doron Kempel and George Hope included in CRN’s Top 100 Executives List
  

“We have continued executing against our mission to provide a superior hyperconverged offering, delivering our unique Data Virtualization Platform through an expanding network of strategic partners worldwide. Given the increased momentum experienced in Q3, we’re poised for a very strong finish to 2015,” said Kempel.

“When first encountered SimpliVity, we immediately realized they were offering just the solution that we had been seeking for quite a while. Having seen many promises on shiny leaflets over the years, we decided to do a proof-of-concept in a production environment. SimpliVity met all of our expectations. The hyperconverged solution enables us to run a VMware-based infrastructure, combined with centralized backup, over narrow WAN links in a ROBO scenario. We are amazed with their rock-solid system and we intend to deploy OmniCubes to additional 45 locations during the next two years,” said Ingo Batz, system/network administration, OHG Transgourmet GmbH & Co.