Wasabi Technologies, Inc.
Formerly | Blue Archive |
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| Private | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Cloud storage software |
| Founded 📆 | June 1, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , United States |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Products 📟 | Wasabi Hot Storage |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | wasabi |
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| Footnotes / references [1] | |
Wasabi Technologies, Inc. is an object storage service provider based in the United States. It sells one product, an object storage service called Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage.[2] The company was founded in September, 2015, and launched its cloud storage product in May, 2017.[3]
The company was co-founded by David Friend and Jeff Flowers. Friend, who is CEO of the company, claims that the software "manages how data center hardware stores and organizes information," resulting in high-speed reading and writing of data.[4]
History[edit]
Friend and Flowers were previously co-founders of Carbonite, an on-line backup service, among other companies.[4] The company was initially called "BlueArchive" at its founding, but was later renamed to "Wasabi Technologies, Inc." after hot Japanese horseradish.[5]
Wasabi Technologies, Inc. was launched with a single data center location in Ashburn, Virginia,[6] a limitation that generated concern in the online tech forum, Hacker News.[7]
On January 30, 2018, Frost & Sullivan gave Wasabi Technologies, Inc, the 2017 North American Technology Innovation Award.[8]
On March 20, 2018, the company announced a satellite-based cloud storage system, collaborating with SpaceBelt to use satellites as data centers.[9] On June 28, 2018, Chris Fenton (former President and General Manager of DMG Entertainment) joined the advisory board.[10]
In October 2018, the company stated that it plans to open its first European data center in the Netherlands.[11]
Funding[edit]
- May, 2017: Wasabi Technologies, Inc. raised $8.9 million[12]
- August, 2017: Wasabi Technologies, Inc. raised $10.8 million[12]
- September, 2018: Wasabi Technologies, Inc. raised $68 million[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/cloud-storage-startup-wasabi-technologies-raises-68-million/
- ↑ Kepes, Ben. "Wasabi serves up some spicy AWS-killer claims". NetworkWorld. IDG. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ Cline, Keith. "Wasabi - Taking on the Tech Giants with Hot Storage". Venture Fizz. Venture Fizz. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Engel, Jeff. "Friend & Flowers Return With Wasabi, Take on Amazon in "Hot Storage"". Xconomy. Xconomy, Inc.
- ↑ "Wasabi - Taking on the Tech Giants with Hot Storage". VentureFizz. 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ↑ Lawson, Stephen. "How to size up a new cloud service like low-priced Wasabi". NetworkWorld. IDG. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ↑ "Wasabi - Simple storage solution". Hacker News. Y Combinator. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ↑ "Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Wasabi for Its Hot Cloud Storage Solution with 2017 North American Technology Innovation Award". Yahoo! Finance. Yahoo.
- ↑ Bray, Hiawatha (19 March 2018). "Data storage beyond the clouds: Wasabi promises a super-secure system in space". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ↑ "Chris Fenton, Former President & GM of DMG, Joins Wasabi Advisory Board". CNBC. NBCUniversal. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ "Wasabi Technologies Announces Plans to Open Data Centre in Holland". Invest in Holland. Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Wasabi Technologies, Inc | Crunchbase". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
- ↑ Miller, Ron. "Wasabi just landed $68 million to upend cloud storage". TechCrunch. Oath Tech Network. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
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