Company Profile: XenData

Company name:
XenData Limited

HQ and offices:

• Europe: XenData Limited, Castle Park, Cambridge, UK
• USA: XenData, Inc., Pine Grove, CA

Website:
xendata.com

Date founded:
2001

Founders:

Dr Philip Storey – CEO

Mark Broadbent – CTO

This is the third company where Storey and Broadbent have worked together. They formed XenData in 2001, as the dot.com bubble was bursting, to start a company based on sound business concepts. They were able to grow the business without external funding allowing them to offer reliable active archive solutions without taking risky business approaches.

Financial funding:
Self-funded

Employees numbers:
17

Technology:
Windows Filter Driver technology allows high performance archiving to LTO robotic libraries, scalable disk-based object storage and to public cloud object storage

Products:

• X-Series, E-Series, Cloud Media Portal and Multi-Site Sync for LTO or Cloud covering on-premises LTO active archives, on-premises disk active archives and public cloud active archives

Release and roadmap:
Media Portal for XenData LTO and cloud archives – May 2024

Pricing model and price:
Depends on product: capital purchase for hardware systems and subscriptions for cloud software

GTM:
Worldwide reseller channel

Customers:
1,500 in over 95 countries including Warner Brothers Animation, the Public Broadcasting Service in the USA, Spectrum Sports, Home Depot, Globecast in Singapore and RTV Slovenia

Workloads/use cases/applications:
Large-scale secure active archives optimized for media files

Target market:
M&E

Competition:
Archiware, Quantum, Spectra Logic