Datos IO was a Silicon Valley data-management startup, backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, that built RecoverX — an "application-centric" backup, recovery and data-mobility platform for cloud-native and distributed databases.

Vexata was an all-flash, NVMe-based enterprise storage startup headquartered in Santa Clara, California, known for its Vexata Active Data Fabric software and VX-100 scale-out storage arrays aimed at high-performance database and analytics workloads.

3PAR is an enterprise storage platform, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE acquired 3PAR in 2010), that powers mission-critical applications with HPE 3PAR StoreServ and Primera arrays.

StorSimple was a Santa Clara, California hybrid cloud storage company founded in 2009 by Ursheet Parikh and Guru Pangal. Its appliances combined primary storage, tiered cloud archiving, deduplication, compression, and encryption behind iSCSI/SMB interfaces, backed by $31.5M from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield…

Infinidat is an enterprise storage vendor — a Lenovo company since April 2026 — building petabyte-scale primary storage, all-flash arrays and cyber-resilient backup appliances: InfiniBox and InfiniBox SSA for primary block and file workloads, InfiniGuard for backup and rapid recovery, and the InfiniSafe cyber-resilience layer with immutable…

Coho Data was a scale-out enterprise storage startup based in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2011 (originally as Convergent.io) and backed by Andreessen Horowitz among others. It built a software-defined storage platform that combined commodity flash and software-defined networking to deliver scalable NFS/object storage for private clouds.

XtremIO was an Israeli all-flash enterprise storage company founded in 2009 and acquired by EMC in May 2012 for $430 million, with the technology continuing as the Dell EMC XtremIO all-flash array product line.

Monitors ~20 online marketplaces for recertified & enterprise HDDs/SSDs, scoring listings to surface the best deals for homelab and small-business buyers.

Fusion-io (branded Fusion I/O) was an enterprise storage company founded in 2005 and based in the Salt Lake City area of Utah, best known for its ioMemory and ioDrive PCIe flash acceleration cards that placed NAND flash directly on the server bus to speed databases and data-center workloads.

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service offering a REST API that mirrors the Amazon S3 API for storing, retrieving, and managing objects and buckets. Wasabi provides always-consistent storage at lower cost than hyperscale providers, with no egress fees, no API request fees, and enterprise-grade performance across…

Egnyte is an enterprise content collaboration and file sharing platform that provides secure cloud and hybrid file storage, document collaboration, governance, and data security controls for regulated industries.

Data Lake and Lakehouse platform integrations with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP via S3 Access Points

Actifio is an enterprise data management company that pioneered "copy data management" (CDM) built on its Virtual Data Pipeline (VDP) technology, letting organizations capture a single physical copy of production data and instantly provision virtual copies for backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, test/dev, and analytics.

Resilient file server environment with DFS Namespace, DFS Replication, NTFS/share permissions, and redundant file access for enterprise workloads.

APIs for managing storage volumes, disk groups, and file systems using Veritas Volume Manager (VVM).

Plexistor was an enterprise storage startup that built Software-Defined Memory (SDM) - a converged memory-and-storage architecture delivering ultra-low latency and millions of IOPS on commodity servers by tiering across DRAM, NVDIMM-N, Intel/Micron 3D XPoint, flash, and spinning disk.

Pure Storage is an American publicly traded technology company specializing in all-flash data storage hardware and software products. The company provides enterprise data storage platforms including FlashArray, FlashBlade, and Pure1 fleet management, along with Portworx for Kubernetes data services.

Pliant Technology, Inc. was a data-center storage company that pioneered the introduction of high-performance enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs) into mission-critical data-center environments.

Diablo Technologies Inc. was an enterprise memory technology company backed by Battery Ventures. It developed Memory Channel Storage (MCS), an architecture that placed flash storage directly on the DDR memory bus, and productized it as Memory1, a flash-as-DRAM DIMM the company marketed as delivering up to 256 GB of memory per module and 4 TB per…

E8 Storage Systems was an Israeli enterprise storage startup that built rack-scale NVMe flash arrays, separating high-performance shared flash from compute so that data-intensive workloads could reach local-NVMe latency over the network. The company was backed by Accel and was acquired by Amazon; the acquisition was reported on 2019-07-31.