Amplidata
| Private Company | |
| Industry | Storage, Software, Cloud computing |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Ghent, Belgium |
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Key people
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Kristof De Spiegeleer, Chairman and Founder; Wim De Wispelaere, Chief Executive Officer and Founder; Wouter Van Eetvelde, Chief Operations Officer and Founder; Craig Stevens, Vice President, Business Development; Paul Speciale, Vice President Products |
| Products | BitSpread, BitLog, BitDynamics |
| Website | www |
AMPLIDATA is a privately held cloud storage solutions provider based in Lochristi, Belgium. In November 2010, Amplidata opened U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California. The research and development department has locations in Belgium and Egypt, while the sales and support departments are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America.
Amplidata has developed a Distributed Storage System (DSS) technology designed to solve the scalability and reliability problems traditional storage systems face, by taking advantage of the introduction of large capacity SATA drives and solid state disk. By storing data across a selection of disks that are widely distributed across storage nodes, racks and sites, the DSS architecture spreads the risk of hardware failure to ensure that a failure of a component such as a disk, storage node or even a full rack has no impact on data availability and a minimal impact on data redundancy. The entire system is permanently monitored and data integrity is constantly checked. As a result, bit errors on disks are proactively healed before they become an issue to the user.
Amplidata's AmpliStor distributes and stores data redundantly across a large number of disks. The algorithm that AmpliStor uses first puts the data into an object and then stores the data across multiple disks in the AmpliStor system. By storing the data as an object, Amplidata can reconstruct the original data from any of the disks on which the data within the object resides.
Amplidata was acquired in March 2015 by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary.
Amplidata was in founded in 2008 by Wim De Wispelaere (CEO) and Wouter Van Eetvelde (COO). The company was initially funded by Kristof De Spiegeleer. The two founders started the company to address some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs. The company’s headquarters are in Lochristi, near Gent in Belgium.
De Spiegeleer founded Racktivity, Datacenter Technologies, Hostbasket and Dedigate and has been quoted as a proponent for European adoption of cloud computing. De Spiegeleer is also the CEO of Incubaid, which focuses on developing technology ventures via cloud computing and green data centers. Active member companies of Incubaid include: Amplidata, Ractivity, A-Server, Dacentec. Incubaid owns the automation framework used as the foundation for all the technologies that member companies create.
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