SimpliVity,
a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the software-defined data
center, today announced that the company has experienced record-breaking
growth for 2014, highlighted by a nearly 500 percent increase in sales
and customer acquisition over 2013. In addition, SimpliVity realized
massive global expansion, closing the year with operations in Asia,
resellers in nearly 50 countries and employees in 18 countries.
SimpliVity also grew to more than 400 employees worldwide, with more
than 270 percent year-over-year-growth, and plans to continue its
tremendous growth in 2015.
“We are very pleased with the rapid adoption of SimpliVity and OmniCube
by end-users, VARs and a partner such as Cisco. The market is
recognizing that true hyperconvergence encompasses much more than just
integration of rudimentary storage with compute,” said Doron Kempel,
CEO, SimpliVity. “Our customers include some of the largest
telecommunications, manufacturing, energy and services companies
globally; alongside mid-size enterprises that typically run all of their
applications, across sites, entirely on SimpliVity systems. We expect
another year of rapid, global growth in 2015.”
Over the course of 2014, SimpliVity shipped 1,500 OmniCube and OmniStack
licenses. SimpliVity diversified its product line by introducing Cisco
UCS-based hyperconverged solutions, which allowed the company to expand
into new markets. Since OmniStack Integrated Solution for Cisco UCS
became generally available in November 2014, SimpliVity secured multiple
customers in the Americas, EMEA and APJ.
SimpliVity also increased its global channel partnerships by more than
200 percent, and launched Partner
Advantage, a program that enables IT’s leading resellers and
integrators to offer their customers a world-class solution to transform
their data centers. With half of the company’s 2014 sales from
international markets, SimpliVity remains on the forefront of this
rapidly expanding market and continues to increase its global footprint.
SimpliVity expanded its support and manufacturing in the U.S. and EMEA,
with a new support center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and
Cork, Ireland, as well as a recent Pan-EMEA agreement with
Infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS, enabling manufacturing in Budapest,
Hungary.
In addition to significant company growth, 2014 marked additional
achievements for the company including:
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Two product releases for its OmniStack software, which powers its
hyperconverged infrastructure solution, OmniCube, as well as a new
CN-2200 model building block.
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Recognized with more than a dozen awards and accolades including
Computerworld’s Best Places to Work in IT, CRN Channel Chiefs, CRN
5-Star Partner Program, Modern Infrastructure Impact Award for
Converged Infrastructure and being named a Visionary in the Gartner
Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems.
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Bolstered its executive leadership with the additions of Marianne
Budnik as chief marketing officer, Mitch Breen as senior vice
president of global sales, Scott Morris as vice president of APJ,
George Hope as vice president of global channel sales, Jon Bachman as
vice president of product management and Marty Sanders as vice
president of Americas sales.
For more information on SimpliVity, visit www.simplivity.com.