SimpliVity

History

2017: HPE buys SimpliVity for $650m

On January 17, 2017, American IT solutions manufacturer Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the purchase of SimpliVity. The cost of selling the manufacturer of equipment for data centers turned out to be six times less than the amount reported by the media, who learned earlier about the deal.

HPE will pay about $650 million of its own funds for the acquisition of SimpliVity. According to the results of the funding round, which took place in March 2015, the startup attracted more than $275 million in investments and was valued at more than $1 billion. In November 2016, The Register credited HPE with plans to buy SimpliVity for about $3.8-3.9 billion.

Near HPE headquarters

HPE plans to close the acquisition of SimpliVity in February 2017. HPE expects that this acquisition will increase the company's profit for the first financial year after fulfilling all the formalities regarding this transaction.

HPE intends to sell its ProLiant DL380 servers with SimpliVity software. In addition, in the second half of 2017, integrated hyperconverged HPE SimpliVity systems built on HPE ProLiant servers should appear on the market.

This deal extends HPE's software-defined capabilities and fits perfectly into our strategy to create simple hybrid IT products for customers. More and more customers are looking for solutions that can provide them with a secure and resilient local infrastructure in the cloud. This is what we focused on, - said the head of HPE Meg Whitman[1]

According to analysts, in Gartner 2015, SimpliVity's revenue from sales of integrated systems for data centers jumped 110.7%, the highest growth among the leaders of this market. The second place in terms of dynamics took Nutanix with 77.4-indicator of the rise.

2016: Release of a hyperconverged data center in one device

In 2016, SimpliVity released a hyperconverged "data center in one device" on the x86 platform, combining computing power, storage and data transfer with built-in deduplication, compression, backup, replication, WAN optimization and unified management, reducing the cost of owning IT infrastructure by up to 3 times. The modular architecture supports Scale In/Scale Out to create target configurations. SimpliVity solutions do not require separate management tools, since all PAC settings are made in the VMware vCenter interface.

In the Russian market, the SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure platform is available both as an independent OmniCube product and as an integrated OmniStack solution with Cisco UCS and Lenovo System x servers.

SimpliVity is headquartered in Westboro, Massachusetts. By early 2017, the company had raised $276 million in investments and has 750 employees worldwide. SimpliVity's business model focuses on indirect distribution channels: the company's solutions and professional services are distributed in different countries through a network of sellers and distributors.

The application areas of the solution can be combined into several main groups: data center consolidation, work with critical applications, desktop virtualization (VDI), cloud computing, software testing and development, continuous data monitoring and analytics, and several others. The vendor also offers a system for implementation in branch and distributed structures, since the transfer of initially optimized traffic improves the ability to exchange data, while the organization does not need to purchase an additional solution.

According to Forrester, SimpliVity offers a wide range of data management capabilities in geodistributed environments with a global deduplication architecture. Includes a comprehensive set of capabilities for backup, deduplication, snapshot, and inter-site replication cloning, and WAN link-optimized disaster recovery.

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