Storage Made Easy
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| Industry | Cloud service |
| Founded | London, United Kingdom (2008) |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
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| Parent | Vehera Ltd. |
| Website | storagemadeeasy |
Storage Made Easy (SME) is a cloud service broker for data that federates access to files stored in private, public, or SaaS clouds. The company is most well known for providing a common place for users to park cloud data stored with multiple vendors.[1][2][3]
Storage Made Easy is a subsidiary of Vehera Ltd., a company based in London, United Kingdom.[1][4] The company operates out of offices in the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Moldova.[1][4]
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History
Storage Made Easy was founded in 2008 and raised $1 million in seed funding from IDJ Private Equity Investments. Though founded in the United Kingdom, Storage Made Easy focused on the US market for the first two years of service.[5]
Q4 2010 was the first quarter in which Storage Made Easy posted a profit.[6] Also at this time, Storage Made Easy obtained a round of growth equity investments. The identity of the investment firm involved was not publicized.[1][6]
In 2011, Storage Made Easy raised another $1 million funding round from IDJ.[7]
Originally known as SMEStorage, the company rebranded its title in October 2012 to Storage Made Easy.[8] In late October 2012, Storage Made Easy replaced CEO Ian Osborne with Jim Liddle,[9] who had previously been in charge of GigaSpaces European business. Osborne now serves as Storage Made Easy’s chairman.[9]
Product
Storage Made Easy provides a cloud service broker platform and related services either as SaaS or a hybrid on-premises solution.[1][2]
Storage Made Easy aggregates over 35 cloud data services such as Dropbox, Amazon S3, OpenStack, HP Object Storage, allowing users to access these programs in a single application.[2][3][10][11] Storage Made Easy provides native OS and Mobile clients, which allow users easy access to their federated data while promoting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) capabilities.[3][12]
The files that a user can access via Storage Made Easy are not duplicated on Storage Made Easy servers.[4][8][13] The files continue to reside on the storage platform to which they were uploaded.[4][8][13] The Storage Made Easy application works with storage clouds including Google Drive, Amazon S3, iCloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, RackSpace Cloud Files, Gmail, and FTPs clouds.[3][14][15][16]
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