by Angela Guess

A recent press release reports, “RStor entered the market today with a hyper-distributed multicloud platform that enables organizations to compute, connect, and operate above the cloud. Developed by infrastructure leaders for today’s internet giants, the RStor Multicloud Platform™ is the first of its kind to aggregate and automate compute resources from private data centers, public cloud providers and trusted supercomputing centers on a next generation networking fabric. With RStor, customers have a single pane of visibility into their computing and can determine the most efficient and cost-effective path for running and executing workloads. RStor has raised $45 million in a series A funding round, led by Cisco Investments. The company, already a team of more than 50 employees, intends to use the money to grow its staff, to accelerate product development, to build out customer and partner ecosystems and to deliver on RStor’s vision to securely connect the world’s computing resources.”

The release continues, “As part of today’s announcement, RStor has partnered with Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, to install the RStor Multicloud Platform™, at Equinix’s IBX data centers. RStor’s services are available today to Equinix’s customers in San Jose, CA, Ashburn, VA, and in the United Kingdom, with expansion soon to follow in Hong Kong, Singapore and Brazil. The RStor Multicloud Platform™ is designed for organizations deploying applications that require high performance computing in the enterprise – what RStor characterizes as Enterprise Performance Computing™ (EPC). As businesses invest in AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics, they need EPC™ resources to support those applications and manage highly distributed infrastructures.”

Read more at Globe Newswire.

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