DriveScale’s Software Composable Infrastructure Solution Wins Gold for Best New IT Software

DriveScale, the leader in delivering Software Composable Infrastructure (SCI) for modern workloads, today announced that it has been named a Gold winner of the Golden Bridge Awards® in the Best New Product or Service – Information Technology Software category. The Golden Bridge Awards honor the best in organizational performance, innovations, products and services, executives and management teams from every major industry across the world. This year’s judging panel recognized DriveScale for its innovative SCI technology and its approach to managing crucial requirements of modern workloads.

DriveScale’s composable infrastructure technology is designed to better manage compute and storage resources by disaggregating them into separate pools and then flexibly binding them together as needed under software control. The DriveScale System is the first solution on the market that empowers mainstream enterprises and web-based application providers to easily and instantly provision and modify data center infrastructure to match changing application loads. This solves common over- and under-provisioning issues that data center managers face, allowing them to improve utilization of resources and respond to end users’ needs in real-time — without negatively impacting performance.

“We are in the age of big data. With modern workloads becoming ever more critical to the business, we aren’t surprised that very few enterprises can implement an efficient and flexible scale-out distributed computing approach like Facebook and Google,” said Gene Banman, CEO at DriveScale. “The Golden Bridge Award recognition underscores our mission to enable mainstream enterprises to quickly and easily adopt a scale-out infrastructure and provide our customers with the flexibility of the public cloud, the performance of bare metal and the cost of commodity hardware. With the DriveScale System, we are helping IT do more with less.”

This accolade follows the release of additional encryption and support capabilities for the DriveScale System that directly address encryption needs for data at rest and in transit and provide support for data disposition and shredding, along with improved maintenance capabilities. These latest enhancements ensure that enterprises are able to keep customer, personal and other sensitive information protected and safe from unauthorized viewing — while still improving how IT administrators manage modern workloads throughout their organization’s infrastructure.

About DriveScale
DriveScale is the leader in Software Composable Infrastructure for modern workloads. Our innovative data center solution empowers IT to disaggregate compute and storage resources and quickly and easily recompose them to meet the needs of the business. Enterprises can respond faster to changing application environments, maximize the efficiency of their assets, and save on equipment and operating expenses. DriveScale supports modern workloads such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes and other distributed applications at a fraction of the cost of alternative platforms. DriveScale, based in Sunnyvale, CA, is founded by technologists with deep roots in IT architecture that built enterprise-class systems for Cisco and Sun Microsystems. Investors include Pelion Venture Partners, Nautilus Venture Partners and Ingrasys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foxconn. Visit www.drivescale.com or follow us on Twitter at @DriveScale_Inc.

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring best companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com