58 Hot Storage Startups compete to be one of Network World’s “10 Hot Storage Startups to Watch”

The competition to earn a spot as one of Startup50-Network World’s 10 Hot Storage Startups to Watch has reached the finish line.

We started with 58 nominees. The first round eliminated 19 startups. In the online voting round, we narrowed the field to 20. The 20 finalists all demonstrated the ability to motivate their followers to action.

Those 20 finalists are listed below. Every single one of them could have been featured in the final roundup – the field was just that good – but the 10 left standing were more engaged, better funded, and had more on-the-record customers, to name just a few of the reasons they made the final lineup.

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Head over to Network World to read the final roundup: “10 Hot Storage Startups to Watch.”

 

But before you do, take a minute to look over the 20 finalists. They all fought hard to get this far and should be proud of their showing in this competition:

The Final 20

ClearSky Data

         What they do: Hybrid cloud storage

Cloudian

         What they do: Storage for capacity-intensive data

Cloudistics

         What they do: Cloud storage

Cohesity

         What they do: Hyper-converged storage platform

Datera

         What they do: Software-defined storage

Datrium

         What they do: Open converged infrastructure for hybrid clouds

E8 Storage

         What they do: NVMe storage

Elastifile

         What they do: Software-defined storage

Excelero Storage

         What they do: Shared NVMe storage

FileCloud

         What they do: Hybrid file storage, sharing, and synch services

ioFabric

         What they do: Storage virtualization software

Morro Data

         What they do: Hybrid cloud storage for SMBs

Reduxio

         What they do: Enterprise flash storage

Rubrik

         What they do: Cloud-based data and storage management

Snowflake Computing

         What they do: Cloud-based data warehousing

SoftNAS

         What they do: Software-defined NAS

Storj Labs

         What they do: Blockchain-based encrypted cloud storage

Vexata

         What they do: Storage and data management

Wasabi Technologies

         What they do: Cloud storage

WekaIO

         What they do: Cloud-based scalable file storage