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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Data Storage |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | , USA |
Key people | Bruce Gilpin (CEO) Harriet Coverston (CTO) Russell Wong (CFO) Meghan McClelland (VP Product) |
| Products | Versity Storage Manager Scout File System Scout Archive Manager Archive Fabric Module |
| Website | www |
Versity is a data storage company that provides archiving software for large data collections.
History
editVersity was co-founded in 2011 by Bruce Gilpin, previously COO of MobiTV[1] and Harriet Coverston, creator of the Quick File System (QFS).[2] Initially self-funded, Versity received an investment by Cray in 2013.[3] In 2013, Versity released Versity Storage Manager (VSM1), a Linux-based archiving system based on QFS and the Storage Archive Manager (SAM).[4] In 2018, Verity released ScoutFS, the first GPL archiving file system.[5] The Silicon Review named Versity one of the top ten fastest growing storage companies of 2019, along with Panasas and Pure Storage.[6]
Products
editVersity produces software for managing large scale digital archives using Linux as the base operating system.[2] Their products are licensed under an open-core model.[2]
VSM1
editVSM1 is an archive management tool based on SAM-QFS and running on Linux, released in 2013.[4] It manages data across disk, tape, cloud, and object based storage systems.[4] As of 2016, VSM1 was being used by 10 - 20 customers to manage a total of more than 250 petabytes across 10 - 20 customers.[2][7]
VSM2
editVSM2 is the first GPL-licensed archive management tool, created by Versity and in pre-beta as of 2019.[4][5] VSM2 is composed of two parts: Scout File System (ScoutFS) and Scout Archive Manager (ScoutAM), both running on Linux.[4]
References
edit- ^ "MobiTV CEO stepping down". San Francisco Business Times. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d Mellor, Chris (21 June 2016). "New storage upstart Versity offers S3 object storage interface". Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (6 November 2013). "Cray Taps HSM Startup for Tiered Storage". EnterpriseAI. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "Versity Storage Manager". Versity. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Versity Open Sources Next Generation Archiving Filesystem". Inside HPC. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ "10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies 2019". The Silicon Review. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
- ^ Mellor, Chris (2016-08-23). "Ovation claps together private cloud storage service with HGST, Versity basis". The Register. Retrieved 15 February 2020.