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AMPLIDATA is a privately held cloud storage solutions provider〔"(LinkedIn profile )." Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕〔"(CrunchBase company profile )." Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕〔"(BusinessWeek company profile )." Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕 based in Lochristi, Belgium.〔〔 In November 2010, Amplidata opened U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California.〔 The research and development department has locations in Belgium and Egypt, while the sales and support departments are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America.〔Company Website. "(Partners )." Retrieved March 8, 2011.〕 Amplidata provides a scale out storage system technology designed to improve storage providers ability to meet increasing demands for capacity and reliability as well as meet their internal demands of simplified management and power efficiency.〔George Crump, Storage Switzerland. "(Amplidata – How Do You Store 100TB’s in the Cloud )?" October 12, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕 Amplidata has developed a Distributed Storage System (DSS) technology designed to solve the scalability and reliability problems traditional storage systems face, by taking advantage of the introduction of large capacity SATA drives and solid state disk.〔David Hamilton, Web Host Industry Review. "(Cloud 2.0: a Vision on the Next Generation of Cloud Products )." March 18, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2011.〕 By storing data across a selection of disks that are widely distributed across storage nodes, racks and sites, the DSS architecture spreads the risk of hardware failure to ensure that a failure of a component such as a disk, storage node or even a full rack has no impact on data availability and a minimal impact on data redundancy.〔 The entire system is permanently monitored and data integrity is constantly checked.〔 As a result, bit errors on disks are proactively healed before they become an issue to the user.〔 Amplidata's AmpliStor distributes and stores data redundantly across a large number of disks.〔〔Dave Simpson, InfoStor. "(Guest blogger: DCIG’s Jerome Wendt on The Future of RAID )." November 1, 2010. Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕 The algorithm that AmpliStor uses first puts the data into an object and then stores the data across multiple disks in the AmpliStor system.〔 By storing the data as an object, Amplidata can reconstruct the original data from any of the disks on which the data within the object resides.〔〔〔〔Pat Romanski, Cloud Computing Journal. "(Cloud Storage Pioneer Amplidata Closes 2.5 Million Euro Series A Funding )." May 27, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2011.〕 Amplidata’s worldwide partners include: (Incubaid ), Milestone Systems, (Racktivity ), (A-Server ), and (Zenith Infotech ).〔 Amplidata was acquired in March 2015 by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary.〔(HGST Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Amplidata )〕 ==History== Amplidata was in founded in 2008 by Wim De Wispelaere (CEO) and Wouter Van Eetvelde (COO).〔 The company was initially funded by Kristof De Spiegeleer.〔 The two founders started the company to address some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs.〔 The company’s headquarters are in Lochristi, near Gent in Belgium.〔Kiril Kirilov, CloudTweaks. "(Amplidata Attacks U.S. and World Cloud Market with AmpliStor )." January 13, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2011.〕 De Spiegeleer founded Racktivity, Datacenter Technologies, (Hostbasket ) and (Dedigate ) 〔Michael Kanellos, Greentech Media. "(Startups: Ractivity Racks Up $8 Million )." November 30, 2010. Retrieved March 10, 2011.〕 and has been quoted as a proponent for European adoption of cloud computing.〔"(Incubaid Green Unbreakable Cloud Initiative pdf )." Retrieved March 10, 2011.〕 De Spiegeleer is also the CEO of Incubaid, which focuses on developing technology ventures via cloud computing and green data centers.〔Incubaid Website. "(Introduction )" and "(Company )." Retrieved March 10, 2011.〕 Active member companies of Incubaid include: Amplidata, Ractivity, A-Server, (Dacentec ).〔 Incubaid owns the automation framework used as the foundation for all the technologies that member companies create.〔 Amplidata employs about 30 data storage experts.〔 Some employees of Amplidata were employed by DataCenter Technologies, which was acquired by Symantec in 2005 and Q-layer, which became part of Sun Microsystems in 2009.〔 In May 2010, Amplidata finalized a first round of venture capital funding worth 2.5 million euros, secured by (Big Bang Ventures ).〔 Big Bang Ventures is known for specializing in funding for start-ups and strives to provide expertise and connections to entrepreneurs in the technology sector.〔 According to CEO and Founder De Wispelaere, Amplidata needed the funding to boost sales and marketing activities in Europe.〔 In September 2010, Amplidata successfully closed a USD 6 million funding round with investors Big Bang Ventures, (Endeavour Vision ) and (Swisscom Ventures ).〔 Following the funding, Amplidata announced the opening of a U.S. headquarters in Redwood City.〔 However, the company does not plan to relocate its R&D departments, which are located in Belgium and Egypt.〔 In July 2010, Amplidata was named the “Best Cloud Storage Solution” at the Cloud Computing World Series Awards.〔Company Website. "(News and Press Archive )." Retrieved March 10, 2011.〕 In November 2010, the European Tech Tour Association selected Amplidata as a Finalist to present at the ETT Cloud & ICT 2.0 2010 Summit.〔 On March 3rd, 2015 it was announced that Amplidata was to be acquired by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.〔(HGST Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Amplidata )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amplidata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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