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Aprigo’s data storage analytics model emerges from stealth
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Aprigo Inc. has launched out of stealth mode with $3 million in venture capital funding from Israel-based Cedar Fund and a plan to provide data storage analytics on a software-as-a-service freemium model.
The Waltham-based company’s three co-founders met while serving in the Israeli Defense Forces as software engineers.
They’re aiming at the mid-size enterprise market. “If you’re a mid-size company, things that are out there today are either overkill, or prosumerish solutions that just don’t scale,” said co-founder and CEO Gil Zimmerman, a former EMC Corp. executive.
Co-founder Tsahy Shapsa, vice president of market development, is a former IT manager at Sun Microsystems Inc. and Network Appliance Inc. Shapsa is also founder and organizer of the Boston Cloud Services meetup and the Boston Amazon Web Services meetup. The third founder, Ron Zalkind, vice president of product management. Prior to Aprigo, Zalkind was director of product management at Interwise, an online conferencing software provider acquired by AT&T in 2007 for $121 million .
Aprigo’s first product, Aprigo Ninja, is available for free download on the company’s website. It is designed to provide an overview of clients’ IT environments, identifying orphan data and large data uses. It can also assign a dollar cost per gigabyte per year. Security risk assessments are coming soon, Zimmerman said. The product currently works with data storage servers, and the company plans to add laptops, desktops and cloud-based computing resources as well.
Currently pre-revenue, Aprigo has 15 employees and three open positions. Its applications run on Amazon.com Inc.’s EC2 cloud-based computing infrastructure. “We’re kind of a lean organization,” Zimmerman said, adding that the company plans to seek a larger Series B round of funding in the first half of 2010.
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