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Founded: January 2008
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif.
What it offers: A cloud storage service backed by a file system with snapshots, replication and other enterprise-class features.
How company got its start: Zetta's top executives had long been consumers of enterprise storage products and generally found themselves unsatisfied, but decided a new cloud storage platform could solve many of the data storage challenges faced by IT shops.
Why it's worth watching: Zetta is trying to compete against Amazon's Simple Storage Service by promising robust enterprise capabilities, such as rapid provisioning and massively scalable capacity; a highly redundant architecture ensuring continuous availability; and easy integration with existing file-based applications. Zetta's co-founders include some of the Web's early innovators: CEO Jeff Treuhaft was one of Netscape's first employees; and vice president of engineering Lou Montulli invented Web cookies and was also an early Netscape employee.
How company got its name: "Zetta" refers to a numerical prefix denoting a "1" followed by 21 zeroes. Industry experts believe the annual amount of digital information created could exceed one zettabyte in the next year or two, putting greater strain on storage systems.
CEO: Treuhaft, in addition to his Netscape experience, led the global digital content and messaging business at VeriSign.
Funding: $10.7 million from Sigma Partners and Foundation Capital
Who's using the product: A private beta program included more than 90 customers from industries including financial services, education, entertainment, manufacturing and technology.
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Comments (7)
What about BlueArc.com?By Iliko on August 11, 2009, 4:02 amWhy BlueArc was not considered at all?
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ovh.com too ! :)By Anonymous on August 11, 2009, 4:15 amovh.com will be starting soon providing storage solutions (ie: cluster leclerc 60 To) ... read http://www.ovh.com to stay tuned :)
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BlueArc isn't new enough. We limit this to companies that have lBy Jon Brodkin on August 11, 2009, 9:23 amBlueArc isn't new enough. We limit this to companies that have launched their first product within the last 12 months.
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EgnyteBy Anonymous on August 11, 2009, 4:40 pmWhat about Egnyte? Egnyte is a great company I think tops the list.
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Egnyte did not qualifyBy Jon Brodkin on August 12, 2009, 5:13 pmAnother completely unbiased comment from a marketing professional... thanks! anyway, if you read my earlier comment you would know that this story includes only...
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Other considerations...By Darren A. on August 13, 2009, 1:43 amA very interesting piece - there are certainly many more fascinating storage firms out there than any one article could possibly cover, so I think you are more than...
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