Start-Up Profile: JetStream Software

HQs and offices
San Jose, CA, and Bangalore, India

Date founded
2016

Financial funding
Seed round of $3.8 million in January 2018; series A funding of $7.7 million, led by Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC in May 2019 bringing total funds raised to date at $11.5 million

Revenue
Annually $4 million estimated by crunchbase

Founders and main executives
They are all coming from Flashsoft, in SSD caching software, acquired by SanDisk in 2012.

Tom Critser, co-founder and CEO, was previously GM of cloud data center solutions at SanDisk. He was a member of the founding team of FlashSoft Software. As VP of sales and business development at FlashSoft he led the strategic relationships with VMware, Dell, EMC and SanDisk. Prior to that, he was VP of WW sales and business development at RNA Networks, the memory virtualization software company acquired by Dell. Previously he was the VP of WW and business development at Infravio, the SOA management software company, that was acquired by Software AG.
Rich Petersen, co-founder and president, was previously was VP of marketing for FlashSoft, later being VP marketing at LogicBlaze, a provider of open source middleware and SOA solutions later acquired by IONA Technologies. He has also served as director of technology analysis at SK Telecom Americas, with a focus on innovations in mobile solutions. As VP of product marketing at Infravio, he helped launch the developer of Web Services management solutions, later acquired by WebMethods. He was also a start-up executive with Interwoven, in Web content management. He also worked at Insignia Solutions, where he led product management and distribution for AsiaPac and Latin America.

Serge Shats, co-founder and CTO, was previously at SanDisk when the company acquired FlashSoft, where he was CTO. He lead architect in Virsto Software that was acquired by VMware. He was CTO at Baccel where he was responsible for the company’s technical strategy including continuous data protection, on-disk backup and IO acceleration. He worked for 7 years at Veritas, developing enterprise-class SAN appliances, distributed software, fault tolerant systems and data protection solutions in the role of technical lead. He also worked at Quantum, designing technologies for HDD performance acceleration and behavior simulation.
Tom Matson, VP WW sales, was, starting in 2012, director of software solution sales for SanDisk, including the FlashSoft product line, where he closed multiple OEM and Fortune 100 deals. Prior to that, he led business development efforts for software start-ups in the memory virtualization and mobile web services areas. He started his career with Intel, holding various sales and product management positions, including director of software strategic planning and director of marketing for enterprise platforms and services.
Sripathi Kodi, director, JetStream Software India Pvt. Ltd., was senior engineering manager at Western Digital, where he was responsible for development of FlashSoft software. Prior to that, he had a long stint at IBM, where he led teams that developed various components of KVM Virtualization stack, Little Endian Linux distribution for POWER, enterprise real-time Linux distribution, IBM’s Java VM and so on. He also worked with customers to identify gaps in KVM virtualization ecosystem.

Technology
Enterprises are moving their DR and BC operations to the cloud faster than legacy technologies can keep up. Vendors are now making large investments to shift to cloud-based resiliency models, and hyperscalers are acquiring smaller vendors.

As customers pursue lower RPO and RTO, the limitations of snapshot-based backups as a DR solution are becoming apparent: too much data exposed to loss and too much overhead on application performance.

JetStream Software provides cross-cloud data management solutions designed to enable cloud service providers the ability to deliver resource mobility and DR services.

The company markets cloud-native products developed specifically for DR, data protection, and BC.

The JetStream Software platform empowers infrastructure spanning multiple data centers and cloud services. Applications enjoy cloud-scale elasticity, and can migrate seamlessly, all with enterprise grade performance, availability and resilience.

A scalable, all-software, hypervisor-integrated solution, the platform delivers next-gen capabilities in multi-cloud computing.

The technology platform includes VMware-certified solutions that enable to migrate and protect virtual machines. The software is integrated with vSphere through standard VMware APIs and managed through vCenter and vSphere SPBM. The products are compatible with any underlying storage infrastructure (including vSAN and other HCI) and any workload in the VM.

VMware IO Filter APIs (VAIO) enable the software to continuously capture and replicate data for near-zero RPO. Start-up’s engineering team is VMware’s co-design partner for these APIs. Additionally, the company’s software is capable of streaming data into S3-compatible object storage.

Products description
The start-up offers two software:

JetStream DR
It enables service providers to deliver DR and BC capabilities to customers’ on-premises environments. Unlike some cloud backup solutions, it provides Continuous Data Capture for near-synchronous data replication, and near-zero RPOs and RTOs.

JetStream DR Design

JetStream Migrate
It’s is a lightweight application for live migration of VMs from any on-premises VMware environment to any VMware environment in the cloud. During data replication to the cloud, VMs continue to run without interruption, and all standard cluster functions (vMotion, etc.) are supported.

Jetstream Migrate
Jetstream Migrate For Vmware Cloud On Aws