Datera Grew 400% in 1FQ19 Driven by Partner Sales

Datera, Inc. announced for the 1FQ19 growth of more than 400%, over ten times the industry growth rate as reported by IDC.

The results validate the vision behind Datera’s SDS platform, its software-defined business model and its ecosystem of the industry’s leaders in cloud native, container-based applications and data center infrastructure – including Kubernetes, HPE, Docker, Mellanox and Intel.

Datera provides the data services foundation for enterprises to accelerate their transformation to a cloud-ready future at a price tag typically 70% lower than traditional IT and public cloud while delivering an new level of automation and agility for IT teams to modernize their system foundation and operating principles simultaneously.

“Enterprise IT is in the midst of a generational transition defined by data freed the need for optionality,” said Guy Churchward, CEO. “Customers that just a few short years ago lurched to the public cloud to transform IT have shifted their focus to bringing the cloud experience on-premises to their most vital applications. That’s the trendline that Datera is driving.”

Customer and Partner Growth:
• 400%+ growth in platform software business for 1FQ19, driven mainly by partner sales
• A 10-fold increase in flash server nodes and 4-fold increase in total deployed petabytes powered by the Datera software platform
• Both new customer adoption and sizable expansion within existing customers within the Global 2000 and service provider customer segments
• Activation of the HPE distribution partnership announced early in 2019 to accelerate penetration of core customer segments and expand the company’s reach across EMEA

“My colleagues and I are seeing that the adoption of ‘software-defined’ that has transformed the compute and network elements of IT is now also firmly underway for the data layer,” said Mark Peters, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Datera’s robust and extensive data automation capabilities make it a worthy choice for contemporary data architectures. It concurrently serves multiple application environments, from VMs to containers running on bare metal, and a variety of media, including NVMe, flash, and hybrid.”

Datera also announced the 3.3 version of its Data Services Platform, further extending the company’s lead in scale-out performance and continuous system-wide optimization at scale.

Scale-out using x86 Storage Nodes

Platform and Solution Enhancements with 3.3 Release:
• Enhanced precision of data placement across the environment, critical to providing performance at scale, based on the intent of the application being served
• A 25 to 50% increase in IO/s per data node by better harnessing of the underlying NVMe, flash, and hybrid storage media above and beyond the average <150μs throughput seen across all deployments, extending the company’s lead in enabling customers to rapidly deploy the newest innovations in storage media
• Enhanced data efficiency capabilities, including compression and deduplication, combined with the platform’s ability to monitor and fine-tune their usage delivers improved economics without the performance degradation or human intervention required by competitive products
• Expansion of Datera’s qualified server options including HPE’s composable ProLiant DL platform and the introduction of new solution bundles available from HPE that combine Datera’s software, HPE ProLiant Servers and StoreFabric M-Series Switches from Mellanox Technologies, designed to enable quick and easy transition to a software-defined future

“The product team continues to deliver at entirely new levels on the performance and cloud-like usability and management fronts,” said Marc Fleischmann, president and co-founder, Datera. “When we set out, we had a vision for a new approach to commanding data at scale, and this new release is another important milestone that accelerates our ability to meet the demands of our enterprise customer base and to advances software-defined IT market as a whole.”