RainStor

RainStor
Private
Industry Information Technology, Software
Founded Founded as Clearpace in 2002 (2002); Renamed as RainStor in 2009 (2009)
Headquarters 321 Pacific Avenue, Third Floor, San Francisco, California, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
  • John Bantleman (CEO)
  • Jamie Andrews (COO)
  • Andy Ben-Dyke (CTO)
Website www.rainstor.com

RainStor is a software company that provides a database designed to manage and analyze big data for large enterprises.[1][2][3] It uses de-duplication techniques to organize the process of storing large amounts of data for reference.[4] The company's origin traces back to a special project conducted by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence with the purpose of storing volumes of data from years of field operations for ongoing analysis and training purposes.[1][5][6]

RainStor is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States with offices in Gloucester, United Kingdom and New York.[1] The company's engineers are located in Gloucester.[7] John Bantleman serves as chief executive officer of RainStor and Jamie Andrews is the company's chief operating officer.[8] RainStor partners with companies including Amdocs, Anritsu, AdaptiveMobile, Barclays, Dell, Group2000, HP, and Teradata.[8]

History

Originally named Clearpace, RainStor was founded in 2002 by engineering specialists in the United Kingdom.[1] The company was originally created to exploit technology that was developed by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence to store big data.[1] The company released its NParchive software, which deduplicated and archived rarely used data, in 2008.[9]

The company was renamed RainStor (a portmaneteau of relational archiving infrastructure storage) with its December 2009 move from the United Kingdom to San Francisco.[5][10] The release of version 3.5 of RainStor, the now-eponymous software originally launched in May 2009, coincided with the company's rebranding and move.[11][12] RainStor received $7.5 million in venture funding from Storm Ventures, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Informatica, and The Dow Company in March 2010.[8] In October 2012, RainStor received $12 million in venture funding from Credit Suisse, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Storm Ventures, the Dow Chemical Company, and Rogers Venture Partners.[13]

As of October 2012, the company reportedly had over 100 commercial enterprise clients.[1] Bantleman publicly stated that RainStor wants to work with companies in the telecommunications and finance industries, as well as with government agencies.[1] Bantleman isolated these three industries because of their need for Big Data capabilities and more stringent compliance regulations around how they manage and retain data.

Teradata acquired RainStor in 12/17/2014.

Product

RainStor has received positive press for keeping costs low while handling extremely high volumes of data.[8] RainStor essentially provides two solutions with its database product, one for the purpose of conducting fast query and analysis against large volumes of machine generated data and the other for an online data archive for the purpose of compliant data retention.[1]

In October 2012, RainStor held two patents and was actively pursuing the approval of five additional patents.[1] RainStor executives claim that they can reduce the volume of Big Data by 95% or more by using innovative data compression and deduplication technology.[3]

RainStor's database product can reportedly load ~1m records per second.[3] The database uses a row/columnar hybrid repository, which activates 20x to 40x compression and data retrieval.[14] The access to the archived data is completed using Structured Query Language (SQL), a programming language used for managing data.[14] RainStor software uses partition filtering, which excludes certain records from processing.[5]

RainStor runs natively on Apache's Hadoop Distributed File System.[15][16] In June 2013, RainStor released version 5.5 of its software.[17] The release added user authentication protocols, access controls and policies, data encryption and user activity logs.[17]

In May 2014, the company launched the RainStor Compliance Edition, which provides protection for data from manipulation, malicious attacks, breaches, or deletion.[18]

Awards and Achievements

RainStor was named the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 Award Winner by AlwaysOn in 2011.[19] The Golden Bridge awarded the leader in Information Technology award for 2011 to RainStor.[20] RainStor was awarded the Cool Vendor award in the Storage Technologies category by Gartner.[21] RainStor was named a Top 100 private company in both 2010 and 2011 by AlwaysOn On Demand.[22] It was also named by a Top 100 hot company by Network Computing Guide.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Tom Taulli (October 9, 2012). "RainStor: Riding the Big Data Wave". Forbes. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Klint Finley (October 4, 2012). "Big Data Company RainStor Raises $12 Million Series C From Credit Suisse And Rogers Venture Partners". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Derrick Harris (October 4, 2012). "RainStor raises $12M to make your big data small". GigaOM. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  4. ↑ Beyers, Tim (2014-05-18). "How HBO's "Silicon Valley" Invents the Future". The Motely Fool. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 Chris Mellor (February 16, 2012). "Big data elephant mates with RainStor". The Register. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  6. ↑ David Zielenziger (October 4, 2012). "RainStor, Big Data Player, Gets Extra $12M Venture Capital Investment". International Business Times. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  7. ↑ Pete Swabey (July 23, 2013). "UK-born RainStor applies military-grade compression to big data". Information Age. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 4 "RainStor". CrunchBase. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  9. ↑ Chris Mellor (November 12, 2008). "Shrinking primary databases". The Register. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  10. ↑ Chris Mellor (January 20, 2010). "Will RainStor data deduplication change the database game?". Computer Weekly. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  11. ↑ Robert Mullins (March 10, 2010). "Storage SaaS vendor RainStor lands $7.5. million in new funding". Venture Beat. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  12. ↑ Sally Whittle (May 26, 2009). "Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud". C net. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  13. ↑ Faith Merino (October 4, 2012). "RainStor raises $12M to compress big data". Vator News. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  14. 1 2 Landers, Garth (11 June 2014). "Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement". Garter. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  15. ↑ "RainStor Nabs $12M for Compressed Databases". Red Herring. October 18, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  16. ↑ Lucas Mearian (January 18, 2012). "RainStor launches Hadoop version of enterprise database". Computer World. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  17. 1 2 Dan Kusnetzky (July 10, 2013). "RainStor releases Database 5.5 for Apache Hadoop". ZDNet. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
  18. ↑ "RainStor Releases Compliance Data Archive Solution". Compliance Week. 2014-05-27. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Announcing the 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250". AlwaysOn Network. July 30, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  20. ↑ "2011 Winners". The Golden Bridge Awards. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  21. ↑ "Gartner Cool Vendors 2011". Gartner. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  22. ↑ "Announcing the 2011 OnDemand 100 Top Private Companies". AlwaysOn Network. March 30, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2013.

"Teradata Acquires RainStor". Teradata.com. December 17, 2014. Retrieved July 24, 2015.

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