Excelero Named One of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” By Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2017 Entrepreneur360

Excelero’s innovation in delivering shared NVMe Flash storage at local performance enables organizations to build storage that meets the flexibility, efficiency standards of the Tech Giants

SAN JOSE, CA December 19, 2017 – Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, announced that it was recognized as one of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” by Entrepreneur magazine’s Entrepreneur360™ List, a premier study delivering the most comprehensive analysis of private companies in America. Based on this study forged by Entrepreneur, Excelero was cited as a well-rounded company that has mastered a balance of impact, innovation, growth and leadership.
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“We’re honored to be nationally ranked for the transformative impact we’re demonstrating in the enterprise IT market, as proprietary approaches are replaced by smarter, peta-scale architectures,” said Lior Gal, CEO and co-founder of Excelero.  “We’re also incredibly proud to be among such esteemed companies.”

“Our annual evaluation is a 360-degree analysis of top privately-held companies representing and serving a variety of industries,” explains Lisa Murray, Chief Insights Officer of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. “These businesses are real-world case studies for any entrepreneur who seeks to master the four pillars that can greatly impact the longevity and growth of their businesses. With the Entrepreneur 360, success is measured by achieving balance throughout the entire organization, predicated by revenue.”

Excelero enables customers to build distributed, high-performance Server SAN with standard hardware for applications at any scale. NVMesh is a truly converged Software-Defined Block Storage solution designed to meet storage requirements for applications of any scale, without compromise.  The solution features an intelligent management layer that abstracts underlying hardware with CPU offload, creates logical volumes with redundancy, and provides centralized management and monitoring. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage and the cost savings of standard hardware. The solution has been deployed for Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and simulation visualization.

Honorees were identified based on the results from a comprehensive study of independently owned companies, using a proprietary algorithm and other advanced analytics. The algorithm was built on a balanced scorecard designed to measure four metrics reflecting major pillars of entrepreneurship—innovation, growth, leadership and impact. For additional details on the E360 List and the companies recognized, visit: entrepreneur.com/360

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About Excelero

Excelero enables enterprises and service providers to design scale-out storage infrastructures leveraging standard servers and high-performance flash storage. Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the tech giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has designed a software-defined block storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.

With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers can build distributed, high-performance server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.

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Press Contacts: 

Tom Leyden
Vice President of Corporate Marketing
Cell US +1 818 919 8478
press@excelero.com

Federica Monsone
EMEA Media Contact (A3 Communications)
+44 (0) 1252 875 203
fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk

Mary Kae Marinac
US Media Contact
phone 978-685-3136
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