| Website | rainstor.com |
| Blog | rainstor.com/news... |
| @rainstor | |
| Category | Software |
| Phone | +44 (0)844 880 0285 |
| Employees | 22 |
| Description | Information Preservation |
| Series B, 3/10 Storm Ventures Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures Informatica The Dow Company | $7.5M |
RainStor provides a specialized database purpose-built for online big data retention. The RainStor data repository significantly reduces cost and complexity of retaining large volumes of historical and static enterprise data through extreme compression, simplified data management and near-perfect scalability on low cost commodity hardware.
RainStor has a partner-centric business model and distributes its product through large ISVs, including HP, Dell, Informatica, AdaptiveMobile, Qosmos and OnPoint Technologies to deliver online data retention solutions that can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Typical customer use-cases include application and database archiving, retirement, machine-generated data retention for compliance and analysis and addressing specific industry use-cases such as retention of subscriber usage data for large telecommunications operators for lawful intercept and analysis purposes.
RainStor is a privately held company with offices in San Francisco, USA and Gloucester, UK. For more information, visit www.rainstor.com.
RainStor is a specialized database for online data retention of big structured and semi-structured data sets, accessible for ongoing query and analysis to enable regulatory compliance and high standards of data governance. RainStor’s innovative database stores and manages big data volumes in a much more efficient and cost-effective way compared to traditional relational or data warehouse approaches.
RainStor’s patented technology uses sophisticated compression and de-duplication techniques to reduce the data footprint size by 95%+ less. The data retained in RainStor can be queried directly using SQL or your favorite BI tool without restoring or re-inflating the data. RainStor stores the data in containers that can be easily managed using standard file systems and low cost storage platforms which requires very few resources to set-up and maintain, further reducing overall total cost of ownership.
Supporting flexible deployment models including cloud and on premise, RainStor can be deployed on a variety of low cost commodity disk options including NAS, CAS, and also the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). RainStor requires no design, index creation, tuning, or ongoing maintenance.
In summary, RainStor enables organizations to retain large volumes of historical data online with minimal effort, delivering substantial storage, hardware, and operational savings.
