RAINSTOR
| RAINSTOR |
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| Official Website: http://rainstor.com/ |
| Official about page: http://rainstor.com/company/history/ |
| Country: Please specify country |
| Location: 45 Belden Place, suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
8 Pullman Court, Great Western Road, Gloucester GL1 3ND. United Kingdom |
| Founded: 2004 |
| Business: Network Intelligence, Data Retention |
| Contact |
| Phone: US +1 415 402 0110 UK +44 (0)845 456 3590 |
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Background
"RainStor was founded in 2004 with a team of engineers who conceived the underlying technology as part of an R&D team at The UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD). Today this same team forms the core of RainStor’s talented engineering organization, which has developed the portfolio of patented intellectual property that underlies today’s RainStor solution...
RainStor’s worldwide headquarters is in San Francisco, CA and core engineering team remains in The UK. Business development, sales, marketing and field services teams are located in both Europe and the United States to support both partners and end-user customers."
Products
RainStor is a database designed to manage Big Data for large enterprises at the lowest total cost.
RainStor delivers two editions of its database product, Big Data Retention and Big Data Analytics on Hadoop to efficiently manage multi-structured data sets, fully accessible for ongoing query and analysis helping meet both regulatory compliance in addition to the fastest query and analysis on Hadoop. RainStor’s innovative database stores and manages multi-structured big data in the most efficient and cost-effective way compared to traditional relational or data warehouse approaches.
RainStor’s patented technology uses sophisticated data compression and de-duplication techniques to reduce the storage footprint by 95%+ less. Data retained in RainStor can be queried and analyzed directly using SQL, your favorite BI tool or MapReduce on Hadoop without restoring or re-inflating the data. RainStor stores the data in large blocks called partitions that can be easily managed using standard file systems, HDFS and low cost storage platforms which requires very few resources to set-up and maintain, further reducing overall total cost of ownership.
Supporting flexible deployment models including cloud and on premise, RainStor can be deployed on a variety of commodity disk options including NAS, CAS, and also the open-source Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). RainStor requires no design, index creation, tuning, or ongoing maintenance.
In summary, RainStor enables organizations to store and analyze large, virtually unlimited volumes of multi-structured data with minimal effort, delivering substantial storage, hardware, and operational savings. Business users can access the data for better business insights. Rainstor products page
Countries known to be using products
Anritsu / Japan Rainstor
Reports
Tech & Business Partners
Blue cabinet/Network Intelligence Alliance
- Qosmos and RainStor Partner to Deliver High Performance Collection and Retention of Big Data
- RainStor sponsors the Big Data Advisory Council the founding members include the following;
- Frank Fanzilli, Advisory Council chairman, former Global CIO of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB)
- Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, former CEO of AT&T Labs
- Stuart Frost, former CEO of DataAllegro and strategy of Database Systems Group, Microsoft
- Masood Jabbar, former EVP Global Sales, Sun Microsystems
- Greg Oslan, current CEO of Narus, wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing
- Al-Noor Ramji, EVP & GM of Misys International Banking Systems Ltd.
People Responsible
Board Members
- Andy Ben-Dyke heads up engineering as RainStor’s CTO and was part of the original team at the Ministry of Defense. Working with both partners and end-user customers, RainStor continues to evolve and expand upon the core technology capabilities to deliver the best data retention infrastructure software in the market.
Management Team
The management team bring many years of related industry experience from companies such as Veritas, Siebel (now Oracle), Business Objects (now SAP), LBMS (CA), KPMG, Evolve (Oracle), GoldenGate (Oracle), Siperian (Informatica) and BMC Software.
- John Bantleman – CEO
John Bantleman has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of software companies. Prior to overseeing RainStor, John transformed LBMS into a $45 million business prior to its successful NASDAQ flotation in 1997. Today’s LBMS’ technology is now part of CA’s product portfolio. The following year John was instrumental in the launch of Evolve, and drove the company through to a successful IPO on NASDAQ.
Returning to the UK in 2003, John spent 12 months working on the advisory boards of venture capital organizations such as Apax Partners. He joined RainStor Inc. as Chairman in 2004 and became CEO at the start of 2007 and relocated back to the US to head-up worldwide operations in 2009.
- Jamie Andrews – CFO
Jamie joined RainStor from Lagan Technologies, where he was Chief Financial Officer and helped grow the company to more than £10m turnover and 230 staff in 2007.
Jamie started his career with KPMG before becoming Financial Controller at BSkyB, where he was responsible for the financial aspects of various business development activities.
- Andy Ben-Dyke – CTO
Andy was one of the founder members of RainStor and a driving force behind the original data management technology before becoming the Product Architect in 2006, and then the CTO in 2007.
Andy holds both a first class Masters degree in engineering and a PhD in parallel and distributed computing from the University of Birmingham. He worked in Japan for two years for Mitsubishi Electric, supporting and extending the HP-UX kernel in the Pacific. He then spent 5 years working for DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency), quickly becoming a Principal Scientist within the Parallel and Distributed Simulation group. During this time, Andy helped develop the core IP that led to the creation of RainStor Inc., as well as managing a range of long-term projects with a total value exceeding $10M, spanning multiple organizations.
- Julian Cook – SVP & GM – EMEA & APAC
Julian has more than 15 years’ experience in the IT industry, working in a variety of senior marketing, business development, product management and consulting roles for blue-chip and early-stage technology companies. He started his career in management consultancy, working for Andersen Consulting, Deloitte &Touche, and PwC leading global eBusiness projects across the USA and EMEA.
Julian joined Siebel Systems in the USA in 2001 with responsibility for product marketing of Internet Applications. More recently Julian was VP Marketing at Vecta Software Corporation in the UK, driving the company’s overall marketing, product marketing and product management strategy. Before joining RainStor, Julian held several interim marketing positions advising early-stage companies. Julian holds a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry from the University of Exeter.
- Tim Waterton – VP Alliances
Tim has spent more than 20 years in the IT industry and held senior sales and marketing positions for both established and start-up ventures. As co-founder of Simulus, Tim was instrumental in building the business, which was sold to BMC Software in 2002.
Prior to joining RainStor, Tim served in a range of EMEA sales and marketing positions with BMC Software.
- Kevin Crook – VP Products
Kevin Crook has 20 years experience in the IT industry, with more than 13 years experience in product management for software companies. Kevin started his career as a training manager and then moved into product management, working for Holistic systems. He worked through several takeovers, finally moving to Vancouver in 2003 as a senior manager for Business Objects. During his time at Business Objects, Kevin was responsible for managing many different teams, including dashboards and developer tools.
Returning to the UK, Kevin joined RainStor and became the Director of Product Management in 2008.
- Ramon Chen – VP Product Management
Ramon has 20+ years experience marketing and product managing software infrastructure tools, applications and databases. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in computer science degree from the University of Essex.
Before joining RainStor, Ramon was VP product marketing of Siperian, a master data management software provider. Prior to Siperian, he was Sr. Director of product management and product marketing at GoldenGate Software, now Oracle. He has also been VP of marketing and product management at MetaTV; director of product and services marketing at Evolve Software and director of product management and marketing at Sterling Software.
- Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing
Deirdre has 20+ years experience marketing start-up and fast growth enterprise software companies. Deirdre holds an Economics and Social Sciences degree from University College Dublin, Ireland.
Prior to joining RainStor, Deirdre headed-up corporate marketing for GoldenGate Software which was acquired by Oracle in 2009. Other start-ups include Extricity Software which was later acquired by Peregrine (now HP), Evolve Software acquired by Primavera (now Oracle) and Synon which was acquired by CA. Throughout Deirdre’s career, she has been focused on forming new market segments and building credibility by leveraging joint success with large global ISV’s and Fortune 500 customers.
- Anthony Brooks-Williams, VP Business Development
Anthony has more than 15 years’ experience in the Information technology and enterprise software market with proven success in business development, sales and executive team leadership. Anthony’s key responsibility at RainStor is concluding and then driving revenue from key partners. Prior to RainStor, Anthony led business development for “Data integration” at Oracle, post Oracle’s acquisition of GoldenGate Software where he was responsible for strategic partnerships in key verticals. Prior to GoldenGate, he founded Coherent Software Corp, which developed “LogPI”, an award winning SQL Server Auditing and Recovery solution deployed at enterprises worldwide. GoldenGate Software acquired Coherent in December 2005. Originally from South Africa, Anthony has an executive MBA from business school.
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