ABOUT ACTIVE STORAGE
Active Storage was formed to meet an unfilled need for easy-to-use, high-performance storage for Media and Creative Professionals, as well as Apple users. Our team of storage veterans have created many award-winning and innovative products, and believe that bold thinking and hard work are the keys to delivering the best user experience while offering a compelling price/performance advantage.
Active Storage understands that when it comes to storage you cannot be everything to everyone, so we chose to be the best in our marketplace.
At Active Storage our team members have diverse backgrounds in the storage industry, from 'big iron' enterprise to consumer desktop and portable storage. Our management, designers, service technicians, sales and marketing teams have seen it all. This diversity gives Active Storage a unique perspective in the development and support of storage products for Media Professionals. Many of our team members are former Apple employees, which gives us a special insight into the Mac OS X mindset.
Active Storage supports the Value Added Reseller channel, to ensure each customer receives the best local service and support.
Active Storage is based in Southern California, yet our talent base is spread across the globe, with a robust sales force in place on the East Coast and Europe. Our team is empowered to deliver unmatched products, sales expertise, and customer support wherever and whenever a client may need us.
PRESS RELEASES
Active Storage Announces mMedia Platform Partners
Collaboration with Industry Leaders, Levels Beyond, Archiware and Adobe® Systems, Inc., Address Top Priorities for Creative, Production and Post
April 16, 2012
Active Storage, Inc., the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and entertainment, postproduction and broadcast professionals, today announced key platform partners for the mMedia Platform as industry-leading Levels Beyond, Archiware, and Adobe Systems Inc. Read More...
Active Storage Demonstrates mMedia Platform at NAB
mMedia Platform, a High-performance, Open, Scalable 'Ingest Through Archive' Storage Solution, Now Showcasing at NAB
April 16, 2012
Active Storage, Inc., the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and entertainment postproduction, and broadcast professionals, today announced it's demonstrating the mMedia Platform, a complete end-to-end workflow storage platform for post and broadcast production, at NAB, (South Hall Lower Level, Booth SL11512) April 16-19, 2012, Las Vegas, NV. Read More...
Active Storage Adds Industry Veteran Venkat Ramakrishnan As VP, Engineering
April 16, 2012
Active Storage, Inc. today announced the hiring of seasoned storage engineering expert Venkat Ramakrishnan as Vice President of Engineering. Venkat has an impressive history in the technology industry, having worked for such companies as Cisco, IBM, and most recently, Promise Technology Inc., where he has served as their director of engineering since 2009. Read More...
Active Storage Announces New mSAN Metadata Controller for mMedia Platform
New Metadata Controller Appliance Adds Applications, Update Management and Volume Optimization
April 13, 2012
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and entertainment production, post and broadcast professionals, today announced mSAN, the evolution of their high performance metadata controller at the heart of the mMedia Platform. Read More...
Active Storage Delivers New mMedia Platform
ActiveSAN Joined By High-Capacity On-line Storage and Near-line Archive Components for Adaptable Production Platform
January 9, 2012
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today announced the mMedia platform, a complete end-to-end workflow storage solution for post and broadcast production. Read More...
Active Storage Debuts New mRAID Storage Solution
Evolved mRAID Storage Supports mMedia Platform With State-of-the- Art Storage Processing Engine, CrossFlow Cooling System and More
January 9, 2012
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today announced mRAID, the high-capacity, highperformance and high-availability RAID storage solution. mRAID provides key high-capacity on-line production storage for the new mMedia platform (see related release, dated today) which delivers an end-to-end workflow storage solution for post and broadcast production. Read More...
Active Storage Debuts New mVault Storage Archive Solution
High-Density Archive of 180TB in a 4U Footprint Increases Overall SAN Performance and Lowers Costs of Archive on the New mMedia Platform
January 9, 2012
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today announced mVault, its first ever high-density archive expansion system on the mMedia platform. Read More...
2011
Active Storage Provides New Solutions for Performance Enhanced Workflows
September 8, 2011
Active Storage announced today that Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software users can now take full advantage of ActiveSAN and ActiveRAID storage solutions. Active Storage will be showcasing this solution at the IBC2011 conference. Read More...
Active Storage Delivers Higher-Density ActiveRAID Systems
June 23, 2011
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals today announced the immediate availability of higher-density versions of ActiveRAID - its high-performance, high availability RAID storage solution. Read More...
Active Storage Names Don Shimizu VP Operations
June 9, 2011
Today Active Storage Inc. announced that Donald Shimizu has been named Vice President of Operations. Shimizu has an extensive operations background, with more than 20 years of experience driving startup and high-growth tech-related businesses. He has specialized in building and managing high-performance teams including operations, product development, support, technical sales and large-scale implementation programs. Read More...
Active Storage Names Steve Rizzone Chief Executive Officer
May 17, 2011
Active Storage, Inc. today named Steve Rizzone as chief executive officer and Alex Grossman as company president. Rizzone, with an extensive, 35-year background growing technology-related businesses, and deep chief executive, marketing, sales and entrepreneurial experience, succeeds Alex Grossman, Active's founding chief executive officer. The move allows Grossman to now focus full time on product innovation, vision and leadership for Active's ambitious plans to develop solutions to meet the challenges of media and creative customers. Read More...
Tekserve Brings the Best of NAB to NYC
April 25, 2011
Active Storage is proud to partner with reseller Tekserve and Asset Management leader Building4Media to create a seminar for media professionals who may have missed NAB, or want a deeper dive into our exciting storage solutions and innovative workflow designs.Read More...
Active Storage Announces ActiveSAN Configurations and Pricing
April 7, 2011
Active Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today announced configurations and pricing for ActiveSAN, the high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks. Active Storage also announced plans to conduct live ActiveSAN demonstrations for the first time at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show next week in booth #SL5225.Read More...
Active Storage Goes on First Latin America Roadshow
March 4, 2011
Active Storage, Inc. will conduct its first ever road show through Latin America to debut ActiveRAID and preview ActiveSAN storage solutions for the creative media professional to the exciting Latin America region. Active Storage executives along with Raji Krishnaswami, also known as "the SAN-whisperer," will conduct a full day of presentations in four Latin America cities, covering the cutting edge in today's high-performance storage solutions for the creative and production professional.Read More...
Active Storage Announces ActiveSAN High-Performance Metadata Controller Appliance for Xsan
January 31, 2011
Today via live worldwide teleconference, Active Storage CEO Alex Grossman introduced ActiveSAN, a high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks.Read More...
Active Storage Announces Professional Training & Certification Program for New ActiveSAN Metadata Appliance for Xsan
January 31, 2011
Along with the today’s announcement of ActiveSAN, Active Storage’s high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks, came the news that Active Storage is preparing to launch a comprehensive training and certification program for this new class of product, featuring some of the brightest minds and most respected professionals in the Xsan community.Read More...
2010
Active Storage Adds CFO With Extensive Tech Start-Up Experience
September 29, 2010
Active Storage is pleased to announce that Jane Wike has joined the company as CFO, after working as Interim CFO this spring. A California CPA, Jane has worked at six venture capital-backed technology companies serving as CFO in three. Her experience includes public and private financings, numerous mergers and acquisitions, and management of significant international operations.Read More...
Global Distribution Announces Exciting New EMEA Distribution Partnership With Active Storage Inc.
September 10, 2010
Global Distribution, a specialist distributor of digital storage and infrastructure solutions, announced today that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Active Storage Inc., a manufacturer of innovative RAID solutions for the media and creative industries, with an emphasis on the broadcast, post—production, publishing, education and science sectors.Read More...
Active Storage Adds International Storage Software Veteran Mark Lonsdale to Southern California Team
June 23, 2010
Active Storage is pleased to announce Mark Lonsdale has joined Active Storage as SVP, Engineering. In this role he will be tasked with driving the development of Active’s next generation products for Media Applications and Apple professionals. Lonsdale joins Active Storage from EMC, where he was a Sr. Director of Engineering, for EMC Data Protection Advisor, the industry leader in Data Protection management solutions.Read More...
Active Storage Partners With Tech Data to Put World-Class Storage Products Into the Hands of Apple Value Added Resellers
June 15, 2010
Active Storage, Inc., the leader in high-availability storage solutions for media professionals and Apple Creatives, today announced they have entered into a partnership with Tech Data Corporation to distribute Active Storage products in the U.S. Through its Apple Specialized Business Unit (SBU), Tech Data will enable Apple resellers to add Active Storage’s reliable, Apple-focused storage solutions to their own solutions offerings. That will mean more opportunities to get Active Storage products into the hands of media and creative professionals across the country, a win-win for both companies.Read More...
Active Storage Announces Active Stats, Dynamic New Media SAN Monitoring Software Tool
April 12, 2010
Active Storage, Inc. today announced Active Stats—the first complete and easy-to-use SAN monitoring tool for Apple Xsan and Mac OS X. Active Stats is a powerful diagnostic tool providing an aggregated view of an entire media SAN, reducing the complexity and information overload of manually calculating overall performance from individual components.Read More...
Active Storage Debuts 32TB 3U Storage Solutions
March 2, 2010
Active Storage, Inc. is proud to announce the release of the new 32TB ActiveRAID, a high-performance RAID storage solution for media production and Apple professionals. These compact and powerful high-availability RAID systems feature Active/Active RAID controllers with redundant power and cooling in just 3U of rack space. Utilizing high throughput enterprise class 2TB SATA II hard drives, the ActiveRAID offers twice the capacity for growing post production, broadcast and Apple infrastructure storage needs—at just 63 cents per GB. Read More...
Active Storage iPhone App Adds Features, Connectivity - Putting RAID Storage Monitoring in Your Hands
February 18, 2010
Active Storage, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Active Viewer 1.1, an enhanced version of the well-received Active Viewer iPhone app. Designed to allow customers to monitor their Active Storage high-performance RAID systems worldwide—directly from their iPhone, this hard-working app has been updated with input from customers who have grown to rely on Active Storage for all of their professional data storage needs. Read More...
2009
Active Storage Completes Series A Investment Round
November 17, 2009
Active Storage, Inc. today announced that it has completed its Series A funding round lead by Intel Capital with top-tier venture capital firms Mission Ventures and Valhalla Partners. The company founders were previously executives at Apple, Inc. where they were responsible for Server and Storage products. Their flagship product, the award-winning ActiveRAID, is used in the production and broadcast of high definition television and movies by leading media production companies around the world such as NASCAR Media, Televisa and Golf Channel.Read More...
Active Storage's CEO Alex Grossman to Speak at Upcoming 2010 Storage Visions Conference
October 20, 2009
Active Storage's CEO Alex Grossman to Speak at Upcoming 2010 Storage Visions ConferenceRead More...
Active Storage Wins Prestigious Good Design Award
October 1, 2009
The Good Design Award, organized by the Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization is Japan's only comprehensive design evaluation and commendation system. Having built a foundation to nurture Japan's industry and design, the Good Design Awards now accepts submissions from around the world and has earned a reputation for being a prestigious showcase for manufacturing innovation and outstanding design and quality. The ActiveRAID received the Good Design Award for networking products.Read More...
Active Storage Introduces New Affordable RAID Storage for Apple Market
April 8, 2009
Building on the success of the ActiveRAID, Active Storage today announced the ActiveRAID ES in 4TB and 16TB configurations, with the 16TB configuration offering 67 cents per GB cost. This new, affordable, high-performance storage solution is ideal for business-critical, science, and education use in Apple-based infrastructures, and complements Active’s existing product line with a groundbreaking new entry cost with future upgradeability.Read More...
Active Storage Announces Partner Solution Program
January 6, 2009
Active Storage, Inc., a leading provider of high-availability RAID storage systems for Apple users, today announced the initial companies participating in its partner solution program with the goal of providing users of the company’s ActiveRAID the assurance of tested and supported deployments of popular applications.Read More...
Active Storage Establishes New UK Office to Service Growing Demand for Company Products Throughout Europe
January 6, 2009
Active Storage, Inc., a leading provider of high-availability RAID storage systems for Apple users, today announced the establishment of its European operations based in the UK, and the appointment of Paul Phillips as Managing Director. Additionally, Active Storage has signed Jigsaw Systems, the UK's leading provider of IT solutions and support services to the creative industries as their first Platinum Reseller outside the US.Read More...
Active Storage Extends Performance and Usability Lead
January 5, 2009
Active Storage, Inc. today announced significant performance and ease of use enhancements to the ActiveRAID, a powerful, self-contained high-availability RAID storage system for Apple users. Debuted only last October 2008, the ActiveRAID features the industry's only native Mac OS X management suite and offers outstanding performance in Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, and Xsan applications, housed in a beautifully styled and functional 3U enclosure. The ActiveRAID is designed from the ground up to produce consistent, high throughput and low latency in demanding multi-user Apple applications. It is an ideal example of a well engineered product with well thought out execution offering both function and beauty that is truly more than ‘skin deep.’Read More...
Active Storage Announces Delivery of MacIT Storage Session at Macworld Conference and Expo 2009
January 5, 2009
Active Storage, Inc. today confirmed that CEO Alex Grossman will deliver a session titled "Complex Storage Deployments in Two Minutes" as part of the MacIT Storage Track at this year’s Macworld Conference and Expo. Session IT852, until now only known as the ‘Special Announcement Session’ will be held Friday, January 9th, 2009 from 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM and feature Alex Grossman, CEO of Active Storage, Inc., and is open to all registered Conference attendees.Read More...
2008
Active Storage Debuts New Storage Solution For Apple Users
October 20, 2008
Active Storage, Inc. today unveiled the ActiveRAID, a powerful and compact high-availability RAID system for Apple users providing up to 16TB (Terabytes) of storage in a sleek enclosure occupying only 3 units (3U) of rack space, all managed with the industry's only native Mac OS X management suite.Read More...
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Stephen Rizzone | CEO
Stephen Rizzone has more than 35 years of experience growing technology-related businesses, and deep chief executive, marketing, sales and entrepreneurial experience. A highly successful company and brand builder, Rizzone served as chief executive, chairman of the board, or lead consultant in eight corporate liquidity transactions over the past 15 years, with a total combined shareholder value in excess of $4.7 Billion.
Alex Grossman | Founder, President
Alex Grossman is a 20-year veteran of the storage industry and a former Senior Director at Apple where he was responsible for driving the development of Apple’s server and storage products. Prior to joining Apple, Grossman was Sr. Vice President of Sales, Marketing, and New Product Development at MicroNet Technology, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of hardware storage solutions for creative professionals and IT managers. Grossman has contributed to several patents associated with storage technology and led the team that developed the first FireWire based Storage Area Network.
Jane Wike | CFO
Jane Wike, a California CPA, has served in six venture capital-backed technology companies and as CFO for three. Her experience includes public and private financings, numerous mergers and acquisitions, and management of significant international operations. Before joining Active Storage, Jane was CFO at Apriso Corporation where she managed the company’s financial, human resources, legal, facilities, and IT operations for six years. Prior to Apriso, Jane was VP of Finance at Arroyo Optics. She held the same title at Cybermedia. Other stints included CFO at Cresenda Wireless and Controller at ISOCOR.
Skip Levens | VP, Marketing
Skip Levens has 20 years of marketing and technology experience, most recently serving 8 years at Apple. At Apple, Skip was responsible for Global Partnerships with companies such as Kodak, America Online and Netscape before becoming the Server and Storage Technology Evangelist in 2002. In this role, Skip spoke and toured worldwide while leading Marketing and Technology partnerships in support of Apple Server and Storage initiatives. Prior to joining Apple, Skip served as Director of Marketing for the Bay Area’s largest luxury real estate brokerage firm, winning several awards for marketing and branding excellence.
Seth Cohen | VP, Worldwide Sales
Seth Cohen brings over 20 years of professional sales and management experience to Active Storage having held executive roles with Apple, Canon, CompUSA, SanDisk, and MicroNet. Seth’s career is marked by continually delivering superior growth and building sales teams whose passion is providing superior customer service and satisfaction. Seth’s expertise within high technology industries, enterprise and consumer storage combined with a responsibility for strategic sales has led to outstanding performance and record sales results.
Don Shimizu | VP, Operations
Don Shimizu brings more than 20 years of experience driving startup and high-growth tech-related businesses. Throughout his career he has specialized in building and managing high-performance teams including operations, product development, support, technical sales and large-scale implementation programs. Shimizu previously held executive, management and technical leadership positions at IP3 Networks, SupplyPro Inc., Corsair Communications, Applied Digital Access and Fujitsu Microelectronics.
Paul Phillips | Managing Director, EMEA
Paul Phillips has over 20 years of experience in data storage. He created and developed the sales channel for MicroNet Technology, Inc. outside of the USA. He was Founder and Managing Director of United Digital and most recently was EMEA Sales Director for Kazeon Systems (now EMC SourceOne eDiscovery).
John Bertagnolli | VP, Software Engineering
John Bertagnolli has been developing storage software for the last 10 years of his 20-year career. After joining Apple in 2000 he managed a team of highly talented software developers on various projects in the professional desktop, server and storage programs. Prior to joining Apple John worked as a senior software engineer of Prosoft.
Venkat Ramakrishnan | VP, Engineering
Venkat Ramakrishnan has more than ten years engineering experience across diverse areas including RAID system development, firmware and software, and deep experience managing engineering teams. Venkat has worked for Cisco, IBM, and most recently, Promise Technology Inc., where he served as their director of engineering.
INVESTORS
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$9.5 billion in over 1,050 companies in 47 countries. In that timeframe, 175 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 241 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2008, Intel Capital invested about US$1.59 billion in 169 investments with approximately 62 percent of funds (excluding Clearwire) invested outside North America. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com.
Mission Ventures
Mission Ventures helps build successful enterprises in Southern California and creates superior returns on investment for its investors. This is accomplished by investing in the most promising early-stage companies in high growth, emerging markets, and providing significant assistance to those companies as they develop. The Partnership brings value-added capital, experience, management talent, and guidance to the most outstanding and innovative ideas and entrepreneurs in the region. For more information visit http://www.missionventures.com/
Valhalla Partners
Valhalla Partners is a trusted partner and advisor to technology entrepreneurs in their quest to build world-class companies. Based in Vienna, Virginia, the firm’s management team has made more than 120 investments over the past 20 years and produced almost $1 billion of investment proceeds. Valhalla prefers investments where the mission of the company is to innovate, challenge and fundamentally change the dynamics of new and existing markets. Investments by Valhalla's team include Advertising.com, BDMetrics, CareerBuilder.com, Clarify, EnterpriseDB, Epicor, Exchange Solutions, JumpTap, LeftHand Networks, Mobius, NextLink, Nirvanix, Progress Software, Proxicom, RealOps, Register.com, Riverbed Technologies, SafeNet, SEPATON, ServiceBench, Trilogy, and webMethods. Valhalla Partners brings the full power and network of its experienced team to every investment it makes, helping companies grow faster and smarter regardless of size or maturity. For more information, go to www.valhallapartners.com.
CAREERS AT ACTIVE STORAGE
Active Storage is always seeking dynamic, talented individuals who are looking to be part of a winning team. If a challenging and inspiring career path drives you, check out the exciting job openings at Active Storage. We offer an exciting, fast paced and fun work environment, comprehensive benefits package and best of all—an opportunity to change the storage market. Active Storage, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.SALES
Sales Team members are responsible for fulfilling Active Storage products through VAR’s and Distributors within their designated geographic area. Candidates should be experts in the storage industry, highly competitive and intensely ‘customer-satisfaction’ driven. To apply for any of these positions include your resume along with the position that you would like to be considered for in an email to: [email protected]- Telemarketing Specialists, Part-Time, Full-Time, Flexible (Torrance, CA)
MARKETING
Marketing Team members are responsible for imagining, building and protecting the Active Storage brand and messages in multiple mediums. Candidates should be knowledgeable about the storage industry, be restlessly creative, relentlessly mission and results-oriented, and be exceptionally articulate and persuasive in their chosen forms of media. To apply for any of these positions include your resume along with the position that you would like to be considered for in an email to: [email protected]- Graphic Designer (Torrance, CA)
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Software Engineering Team members are responsible for crafting superb software designs comprising excellent user interface design and intuitive ease of use. Candidates for Active Storage should be knowledgeable about their field of expertise, be familiar with a range of agile software methods and have a proven track record of collaborative productivity in a team environment. To apply for any of these positions include your resume along with the position that you would like to be considered for in an email to: [email protected]- Project Manager (Torrance, CA)
- Windows Host Software Developer (Torrance, CA)
- Host Application Engineer (Torrance, CA)
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Customer Technical Support Team members ideally already have a grounding in the storage market and have demonstrated a proven track record of excellent service with a world-class attention to detail. To apply for any of these Active Storage positions include your resume along with the position that you would like to be considered for in an email to: [email protected]- Customer Technical Support Specialists (Torrance, CA)
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