Stratoscale was a

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company offering software-defined data center technology, with hyper-converged infrastructure 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

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in Sunnyvale, California,

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, and

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, New York. Stratoscale announced Stratoscale Symphony, in December 2015, selling through channel partners. Stratoscale raised $70 million from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Intel Capital,

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, Leslie Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk. 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 hyper-converged infrastructure. The software was intended to work on customers' hardware. Stratoscale Symphony was available on subscription basis. The Symphony suite could be deployed on commodity x86 servers to provide an

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(AWS) capability with the capacity to augment legacy VMware. 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, Cloudera, Docker, Hortonworks,

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, Mellanox Technologies, Midokura, OpenStack, and SanDisk. System partners included

, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (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

Official website
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