SoftIron designs task-specific, scale-out data center appliances optimized for open-source software, targeting both hyperscale and SMB data centers. Its hardware is designed, developed and assembled in California and is built to maximize metrics such as density, efficiency, capacity, speed and heat emission. The company recently added HyperSwitch™, a next-generation top-of-rack switch designed to maximize the performance and flexibility of SONiC. Leadership includes co-founders and executives Phil Straw (CEO), Mark Chen and Norman Fraser, with Harry Richardson as CSO. SoftIron plans to expand sales, product marketing and support while strengthening engineering to grow its appliance portfolio based on leading open source solutions. The company raised external funding to support geographic expansion across North America, Europe and the APAC region. SoftIron designs, builds and supports HyperDrive, an enterprise data storage solution with transparent, upfront pricing that interoperates with any other solution running Ceph. The company offers a 90-day HyperDrive trial cluster providing 192TB raw capacity in 5U, four storage nodes, a combined monitor and administrator node (expandable for production scale-out), and 10GBaseT networking. The trial includes consultation with a SoftIron storage expert and hardware and software technical support. SoftIron positions HyperDrive as a zero-risk enterprise data storage offering. The company is led by CEO Tim Massey and is based in London, UK and Newark, California. Financially, SoftIron completed a $7m funding round reported in November 2017.

Total raised

$41M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Mar 2020