Exanet, Ltd. was an Israeli software company that provided scalable network-attached storage software solutions to partners. Exanet software was hardware independent. Their clustered NAS software storage solution provided single-file system scalability, and was compatible with Linux, Mac, and Windows

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. After the company went into temporary receivership, on February 19, 2010 Exanet's intellectual property was acquired by

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History

Exanet was founded in 2000 by Giora Yaron and Yossi Ben-Shoshan, and raised $30 million in two rounds of venture capital funding. In 2003, ExaStore started shipping its first products. In January 2006, Exanet joined the Intel Storage Community. In November 2006, Exanet introduced ExaStore-ICM, providing automated data storage and delivery services. In March 2008, Exanet introduced its "solution" products: ExaStore Clustered NAS system and ExaStore Clustered NAS Server. Exanet was headquartered in Israel with offices in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, and Japan. Investors included Eitan Wertheimer's Microdent Ltd., Evergreen Venture Partners, Coral Group, and LTG Development Capital. On December 12, 2009, Exanet went into temporary receivership, after failing to secure an additional round of financing. The company had an estimated 80 employees.

Acquisition by Dell

In February 2010 the company IP was acquired by

Inc. for $12 million. Dell continued development of the NAS capability, which was marketed as the

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or FluidFS. This product comes as an appliance, where the controller running the software is a

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server and the storage can be any of the three Dell storage product-lines: Dell PowerVault, EqualLogic or

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using iSCSI or

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connections.

Products

Exanet was an OEM provider of enterprise storage software called ExaStore. ExaStore had the following components: * ExaStore software * Intel-based servers (nodes) * Standard Gigabit Ethernet or

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networking components *

attached disk array storage

ExaSearch

ExaSearch is a search engine, which integrates with Exanet’s scalable, ExaStore, network attached storage (NAS) software, allowing customers to turn stored data into accessible information. ExaSearch includes a search engine capable of searching multiple sources: file servers, email systems, groupware, databases and employee directories. It can process unstructured data and queries, and allows immediate access to newly generated content through real-time indexing. The product is designed to integrate with

ExaStore Exanet, Ltd. was an Israeli software company that provided scalable network-attached storage software solutions to partners. Exanet software was hardware independent. Their clustered NAS software storage solution provided single-file system scala ...

software resulting in a clustered NAS solution combined with enterprise-class search capabilities.{{cite web , title=ExaSearch Works Across Multiple Sources, Clustered NAS , url=https://esj.com/articles/2007/06/26/exasearch-works-across-multiple-sources-clustered-nas.aspx , publisher=esj.com

References

External links

Exanet Ltd.
Software companies of Israel Defunct companies of Israel Defunct computer companies of Israel Companies acquired by Dell