<s>
StorSimple	B-Protocol
was	O
a	O
privately	O
held	O
company	O
based	O
in	O
Santa	O
Clara	O
,	O
California	O
,	O
marketing	O
cloud	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StorSimple	B-Protocol
was	O
funded	O
by	O
venture	O
capital	O
from	O
Index	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Redpoint	O
Ventures	O
,	O
Ignition	O
Partners	O
,	O
and	O
Mayfield	O
Fund	O
for	O
a	O
total	O
of	O
$31.5	O
million	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StorSimple	B-Protocol
marketed	O
a	O
cloud	O
storage	O
gateway	O
computer	B-Architecture
appliance	I-Architecture
called	O
Cloud-integrated	O
Storage	O
(	O
CiS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Their	O
approach	O
claimed	O
to	O
integrate	O
primary	O
storage	O
data	B-General_Concept
deduplication	I-General_Concept
,	O
automated	B-Application
tiered	I-Application
storage	I-Application
of	O
data	O
(	O
across	O
local	O
and	O
cloud	O
storage	O
)	O
,	O
data	B-General_Concept
compression	I-General_Concept
,	O
encryption	O
,	O
and	O
significantly	O
faster	O
data	O
backup	O
and	O
disaster	O
recovery	O
times	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
StorSimple	B-Protocol
was	O
certified	O
for	O
Microsoft	B-Device
Windows	I-Device
Server	I-Device
2008	I-Device
and	O
VMware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
integrated	O
with	O
cloud	O
storage	O
from	O
Amazon	B-Application
,	O
Google	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	O
and	O
Rackspace	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2012	O
StorSimple	B-Protocol
was	O
considered	O
to	O
be	O
at	O
the	O
forefront	O
of	O
its	O
genre	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
appliance	O
had	O
an	O
iSCSI	B-Protocol
interface	O
using	O
10	O
Gigabit	O
Ethernet	O
and	O
used	O
serial	O
ATA	O
disks	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
solid-state	B-Device
drives	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
April	O
2012	O
,	O
StorSimple	B-Protocol
announced	O
the	O
replacement	O
of	O
its	O
2U	O
5010	O
(	O
2.5	O
TB	O
raw	O
capacity	O
)	O
and	O
7010	O
(	O
5	O
TB	O
raw	O
)	O
models	O
:	O
the	O
5020	O
with	O
2	O
TB	O
of	O
raw	O
capacity	O
,	O
the	O
7020	O
(	O
4	O
TB	O
)	O
,	O
5520	O
(	O
10	O
TB	O
)	O
and	O
the	O
4U	O
7520	O
(	O
20	O
TB	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
October	O
16	O
,	O
2012	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
agreed	O
to	O
acquire	O
StorSimple	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
acquisition	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
integrated	O
StorSimple	B-Protocol
into	O
its	O
Azure	B-Application
product	O
suite	O
and	O
refreshed	O
the	O
hardware	O
,	O
launching	O
the	O
8100	O
and	O
8600	O
on-premise	O
fixed-configuration	O
storage	B-General_Concept
arrays	I-General_Concept
in	O
2014	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
8100	O
offered	O
between	O
10	O
TB	O
and	O
40	O
TB	O
locally	O
depending	O
on	O
data	B-General_Concept
compression	I-General_Concept
and	O
data	B-General_Concept
de-duplication	I-General_Concept
and	O
up	O
to	O
200	O
TB	O
maximum	O
capacity	O
inclusive	O
of	O
the	O
Azure	B-Application
cloud	O
storage	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
their	O
predecessors	O
,	O
the	O
appliances	O
combined	O
solid	O
state	O
and	O
standard	O
disk	B-General_Concept
drives	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
virtualised	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
platform	O
,	O
running	O
on	O
a	O
virtual	O
machine	O
in	O
the	O
Azure	B-Application
cloud	O
,	O
was	O
initially	O
marketed	O
as	O
the	O
1100	O
then	O
re-branded	O
as	O
the	O
8010	O
.	O
</s>
