The other major driver for Astrum's sales has been business continuity initiatives, Infantino says. "Our software can identify where the growth is occurring in a particular application so that admins do not have to keep reconfiguring their SANs in order to keep them running." Astrum's software works with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Exchange and SQL Server, and Oracle Corp.'s (Nasdaq: ORCL) database software.
Customers now using Astrum's software include:
[Ed. note: Confusingly, these are not actually Astrum's new customers. Some of those have not yet been named.]
Online backup service provider Amerivault uses the software to manage 30 terabytes of storage. "We need to be able to track the growth of our customers' storage environments, as we must grow in conjunction with them, as well as monitor our storage resources for when we hit certain threshold levels," says Kevin Harris, Amerivault's CTO.
Astrum, which employs about 30 people, has one OEM deal with Overland Storage Inc. (Nasdaq: OVRL) for its software and is actively seeking other reseller and OEM partners. It closed its last round of $5.3 million in funding from JMI Equity Fund LP in March 2001. It's worth noting that JMI is run by John Moores, founder of BMC Software Inc. (see Overland Takes Software Route).
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