TwinStrata

TwinStrata is a privately held company, founded in 2007, that delivers cloud storage solutions for businesses. The company was founded by storage industry veterans Nicos Vekiarides and John Bates and is headquartered in Natick, MA. TwinStrata's product, CloudArray was introduced in May 2010 as a virtual appliance followed by CloudArray hardware appliances in Sept of 2010.

CloudArray is often referred to as a cloud storage enabler, cloud storage gateway or cloud storage on-ramp solution. CloudArray utilizes cloud storage from one or many public or private cloud providers to extend existing on-premise storage infrastructures to the cloud. CloudArray presents a native iSCSI interface and provides local performance, thin provisioning, data reduction, Bandwidth optimization, at-rest encryption and in-cloud snapshots. Primary use cases for CloudArray include storage capacity expansion, data protection and disaster recovery. Since CloudArray operates both as a software and hardware solution, it can run on-premise and/or in the cloud, enabling in-cloud compute environments as disaster recovery or secondary expansion sites for compute and storage resources. Unique Compute-Anywhere capability allows applications to access managed data volumes access on-premise, off-premise and in the cloud.

TwinStrata is widely recognized as a leader and innovator in the cloud storage industry and has received several awards. Most notably, as a 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America award winner and 2011 Red Herring Global 100 winner. The Red Herring awards showcase the most innovative companies from across world. TwinStrata was also recognized as on of CRN's Emerging Vendor in 2011

See also

• cloud storage gateway
• Cloud computing
• Cloud storage