Stratoscale was a

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company offering software-defined data center technology, with

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and

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capabilities. Stratoscale combined compute, storage, and networking hardware with no additional third party software. Stratoscale has shut down with no details for the future of its products.

History

Stratoscale was founded in 2013 by Ariel Maislos. Stratoscale is headquartered in Israel with offices in

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and

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, and offices in North America in Sunnyvale, California,

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, New York. Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners. Stratoscale raised $70 million from

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, Bessemer Venture Partners,

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, Leslie Ventures,

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, and

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. The company shut down at the end of 2019 due to lack of funding.

Products

Stratoscale Symphony was marketed for software-defined data centers or

. The software was intended to work on customers' hardware. Stratoscale Symphony was available on subscription basis. The Symphony suite could be deployed on commodity

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(AWS) capability with the capacity to augment legacy

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. In 2016, Stratoscale released Symphony 3.

Partner program

Stratoscale had channel partners, technology partners, and system partners. Channel partners consisted of resellers, integrators, and distributors. Technology partners included

CloudEndure CloudEndure is a cloud computing company that develops business continuity software for disaster recovery, continuous backup, and live migration. CloudEndure is headquartered in the United States with R&D in Israel. History CloudEndure was fou ...

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, Docker,

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Mellanox Technologies Mellanox Technologies Ltd. ( he, מלאנוקס טכנולוגיות בע"מ) was an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products based on InfiniBand and Ethernet technology. Mellanox offered adapters, switches, softwa ...

, Midokura,

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, and

. System partners included

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(HPE), Infinidat, Lenovo, and Supermicro.Kranz, Garry. (17 June 2016). Stratoscale tunes its Symphony hyper-convergence software. ''TechTarget''. www.techtarget.com.

References

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External links

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