DriveScale Grabs $15M in Series A 

What does DriveScale do?
Drivescale, is the company which is leading the charge in bringing hyperscale computing capabilities to maninstream enterprises. The company’s composable data center architecture changes the rigid data centers into responsive and flexible scale out deployments. Using this platform data center administrators can deploy independent pools of comodity storage and compute resources, automatically discovering assets that are available, and combining and recombining the resources as required. The solution is provided through a set of SaaS and on-premises tools which co-ordinate between different infrastructure levels. With this platform, companies can now support Hadoop deployments of every size and other modern application workloads easily. The company was founded by a team of professionals who have deep roots in IT architecture and has built enterprise class systems such as Sun UltraSparc and Cisco UCS
How much DriveScale was funded?
The company has raised $15M in Series A on May 19, 2016 from Pelion Venture Partners, Ingrasys and Nautilus Venture Partners.
What is next for DriveScale?
DriveScale has new board of directors- Connie Sheng, founding MD at Nautilus Venture Partners and Carl Ledbetter, MD at Pelion Venture Partners, both the companies have invested in the funding round. Also Ameet Patel, James Gosling, Scott McNealy, Phil Roussey are announced as the company’s new advisors.
More about DriveScale
DriveScale was founded in 2013 by Satya Nishtala, Tom Lyon and Duane Northcutt. It has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The company provides the only rack scale architecture which helps administrators in bringing their total benefit of their scale out investment to their company. The company enables other companies to purchase commodity compute, networking resources and storage seperately, configure and rebalance resource ratios optimally and simply manage them.