Providing Best-of-breed Technology Capabilities

RainStor partners with leading technology providers to deliver best-in-class online data retention capabilities. Technology partners include:

Caringo is the global leader in object storage solutions and developer of the Caringo object storage platform powered by CAStor software that enables massive scalability and future-proof accessibility of unstructured data. Caringo object storage enables cloud storage solutions, big data repositories and general storage infrastructure replacing NAS, tape and VTL. For more information, visit www.caringo.com.

Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services, enables data driven enterprises to easily derive business value from all their structured and unstructured data. Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH), available to download for free from www.cloudera.com/downloads, is the most comprehensive, tested, stable and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop in commercial and non-commercial environments. For the fastest path to reliably use this completely open source technology in production for Big Data analytics and answering previously un-addressable big questions, organizations can subscribe to Cloudera Enterprise, comprised of Cloudera Support and a portfolio of software including Cloudera Management Suite. Cloudera also offers consulting services, training and certification on Apache technologies. As the top contributor to the Apache open source community and with tens of thousands of nodes under management across customers in financial services, government, telecommunications, media, web, advertising, retail, energy, bioinformatics, pharma/healthcare, university research, oil and gas and gaming, Cloudera’s depth of experience and commitment to sharing expertise are unrivaled. www.cloudera.com

Composite Software, Inc. is the data virtualization performance leader. Backed by a decade of pioneering R&D, Composite Software is the data virtualization gold standard at 10 of the top 20 banks, six of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, four of the top five energy firms, major communications providers and the world’s largest IT organization, the US Army. These and hundreds of other global organizations rely on the Composite Data Virtualization Platform to fulfill their ever-changing information requirements with greater agility and lower costs. Composite is privately held, with corporate headquarters in San Mateo, CA.  http://www.compositesw.com

The EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program CAS Specialty is designed for independent software vendors (ISVs) who develop solutions for the fixed-content market based on EMC’s industry-leading content-addressed storage (CAS) platform, the EMC Centera. Through this program, EMC’s standards-compliant application programming interfaces (APIs) for Centera are made available to members to enable them to integrate their applications with EMC Centera. For more information, visit http://www.emc.com.

RainStor is certified to run on EMC’s leading CAS device, Centera where structured and unstructured data can be retained in a unified storage platform.

Hortonworks was formed in July 2011 by Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital in order to promote the development and adoption of Apache Hadoop, the leading open source platform for storing, managing and analyzing large volumes of data. Together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use. The company and its founders are leaders in designing and delivering current and future generations of Apache Hadoop and leverage their expertise to provide unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators and technology vendors, including ISVs, OEMs and service providers. For more information, visit www.hortonworks.com.

MapR delivers on the promise of Hadoop, making managing and analyzing Big Data a reality for more business users. The award-winning MapR Distribution brings unprecedented dependability, speed and ease-of-use to Hadoop combined with data protection and business continuity, enabling customers to harness the power of Big Data analytics. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, NEA and Redpoint Ventures.

RainStor is a member of the NI Alliance which is an industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economics technology providers and to educate the market on the role and value of Network Intelligence technology. Members are vendors involved in the capture, processing, decoding, analysis, and leveraging of network data; suppliers of Network Intelligence technology components; software vendors; and information providers of solutions, such as cyber security, financial transaction tracking, lawful interception, service assurance, traffic optimization and Web market research.

Participation in the NI Alliance helps members to build and market innovative solutions to Communications Service Providers (CSPs) governments and enterprise customers seeking to improve performance, security and the monetization of network-dependent services and applications.

For more information, visit: http://www.nialliance.org/member/rainstor

Simba Technologies Inc. is the recognized world leader in standards-based data access products, solutions and services. Simba’s software is the glue connecting front-end business intelligence and analytics applications to back-end data sources across vendors. Simba is an industry pioneer in relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity, as well as MDX query language technology. For more information, visit www.simba.com.