UPDATED 11:00 EDT / APRIL 26 2018

CLOUD

RStor exits stealth with a multicloud network for deploying high performance applications

Startup RStor Inc. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $45 million in funding and a partnership with the global data center firm Equinix Inc.

The company said it wants to tackle the challenges of running high-performance computing applications across multiple cloud infrastructures.

RStor’s Series A round of funding was led by Cisco Systems Inc.’s venture capital arm Cisco Investments. The money will be used to hire more staff and accelerate the development and parter and customer ecosystem for its main product, the RStor Multicloud Platform.

With the RStor Multicloud Platform the company is providing a platform that aggregates and automates compute resources from public and private clouds. The goal is to help customers determine the most cost-effective cloud environment for each workload and simplify their deployment. The company is trying to carve a niche for itself in “enterprise performance computing,” which refers to data-intensive applications that leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics.

“The legacy model of the consolidated data center with its thousands of networked computers, redundant power supplies and environmental controls isn’t relevant to the computing demands of AI and machine learning,” said Giovanni Coglitore, RStor’s founder and chief executive officer.

Customers could do well to take heed of what Coglitore says, since his data center credentials are second to none. He previously worked at Facebook Inc., where he led the Open Compute Project initiative that seeks to boost innovation in the data center by publishing open-source hardware designs, before leaving to found RStor.

“I have seen firsthand the industry gains that come from breaking open the black box of proprietary IT infrastructure,” Coglitore said. “That same hunger is driving the need for a hyperdistributed platform that can manage multicloud environments to achieve greater choice and cost savings.”

RStor’s Multicloud Platform helps to achieve this by aggregating resources from cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and also supercomputing platforms from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Texas Advanced Computing Center so they can be managed via a single control pane. The platform binds these resources together with what it calls a “low-latency, high-bandwidth networking fabric” that can transfer data across them with a throughput that’s 30 times faster than industry standards, the company claims. Finally, the platform leverages machine learning and analytics to match workloads with the most optimal computing resources based on users’ cost and performance requirements.

RStor said it’s teaming up with the data center provider Equinix to deliver its platform. The RStor Multicloud Platform is available now for Equinix customers in San Jose, California; Ashburn, Virginia; and the United Kingdom. It also will be coming soon to customers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil.

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