JetStream Software Secures Series A Funding Led by Digital Alpha to Advance DRaaS and Cloud Data Protection

Funding to advance the company’s unique technologies that enable MSPs and CSPs to deliver DRaaS and continuous data protection. End Quote

San Jose, CA (1888PressRelease) May 29, 2019 - JetStream Software Inc., an innovator in cloud data protection, today announced Series A funding of $7.7 million to advance the company’s unique technologies that enable managed service providers (MSPs) and cloud service providers (CSPs) to deliver disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) and continuous data protection to enterprise customers, government agencies, and research and educational organizations.

• Highlight: Differentiated technology for continuous data protection
• Opportunity: Growing demand for DR and business continuity cloud services
• Investment: Accelerate product development, go-to-market and strategic partnering

Led by Digital Alpha Advisors, LLC, the Series A investment is also supported by JetStream Software’s private and institutional seed investors. New to the funding round is Illuminate Ventures. The investment will support continued product development, innovative go-to-market strategies, and increased engagement with key strategic partners.

Many information technology operations are rapidly shifting from on-premises systems and software to cloud-based services. Data protection is the top use case for enterprise hybrid cloud. As a part of this trend, data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity are increasingly provided by trusted MSPs and CSPs, who often lack native cloud DR capability. This shift presents new challenges and opportunities in the multibillion-dollar market for data management software.

JetStream Software’s flagship product, JetStream DR, is a first-of-its-kind solution designed specifically for cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity. The software empowers service providers to deliver near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) to maximize data protection as well as near-zero recovery time objectives (RTOs) to maximize system recovery and availability. Additional technical innovations include:

• Differentiated New Technology: Continuous data replication through VMware vSphere IO Filters
• Unmatched Performance: Robust, high-throughput, fault-tolerant data replication and VM failover to recovery sites
• Cost Efficiency: Direct data replication into any S3-compatible object store, for data recovery

The JetStream DR software is compatible with any type of datastore, including VMware Virtual SAN or Virtual Volumes, traditional block or file storage, or any hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) from any vendor. MSPs/CSPs can provide VM recovery for all types of customers from a single, centrally-managed environment to a large-scale data center infrastructure.

With the scalability and cost efficiency of VM recovery from object storage, plus compatibility with all types of virtualized environments, JetStream DR enables MSPs/CSPs to realize cloud economics in their DR service offerings. By replacing legacy, single-tenant data protection systems and recovery processes running on-premises, customers benefit from more convenient adoption and management, better performance, and overall lower cost of ownership.

On the investment, Digital Alpha Managing Partner Rick Shrotri said, “We are excited to invest in a team providing a highly differentiated technology with critical advantages for DR and business continuity as the market becomes increasingly cloud-centric. JetStream Software has developed a unique data management platform that will play a key role in the cloud transformation of the data protection industry. This initial investment by Digital Alpha will help JetStream Software add key contributors to its team and pursue larger business opportunities and strategic relationships. As the team achieves these objectives over the near term, we look forward to continued investment in the company.”

The investment decision process included rigorous technical testing, commercial validation from channel partners, and synergy with the Digital Alpha cloud portfolio, including Cloudian and UKCloud.

Tom Critser, CEO, JetStream Software, said of the investment, “Digital Alpha brings unique advantages to our business and a strategic vision that sees our business leading the enormous transformation that is happening in our industry. The Digital Alpha portfolio is characterized by game-changing players in cloud transformation, and we will benefit greatly from Digital Alpha’s financial support, shared strategic vision, and deep industry relationships.”

In conjunction with the investment, Digital Alpha Principal Aurin Bhattacharjee will join the board of directors of JetStream Software. Mr. Bhattacharjee has more than seven years of experience at Google, most recently managing M&A strategy, competitive intelligence, and go-to-market planning for the Google Cloud Strategy and Operations team. He was previously with Google’s Corporate Finance team, where he worked on investments, financings and acquisitions.

About Digital Alpha
Digital Alpha is an investment firm focused on digital infrastructure and services required by the digital economy, with a strategic collaboration agreement with Cisco Systems, Inc. As part of this agreement, Digital Alpha has preferred access to Cisco’s pipeline of commercial opportunities requiring equity financing. Digital Alpha believes that it is the first fund focused on making private equity investments in the significant growth opportunities required to underpin the Digital Economy, including smart cities, next generation networks, and enterprise data management and communication solutions. For more information, please visit www.digitalalpha.net/.

About JetStream Software
JetStream Software Inc., an innovator in cloud software development, gives managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs), and Fortune 500 enterprise clouds a better way to support workload migration and business continuity across multi-cloud and multi-data center infrastructures. JetStream Software is optimally suited to complement VMware cloud infrastructures including VMware Cloud Provider Partners (VCPPs) and VMware Cloud on AWS. JetStream Software is headquartered in San Jose, California, with a wholly owned subsidiary in Bangalore, India. The company is privately held. For more information, please visit www.jetstreamsoft.com/, www.linkedin.com/company/jetstream-software-inc/ and ( @ ) JetStreamSoft dot

JetStream Cross-Cloud Data Management Platform, JetStream DR, JetStream Migrate and JetStream Accelerate are trademarks of JetStream Software Inc. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Tags: JetStream Software, Digital Alpha, Illuminate Ventures, data protection, DRaaS, disaster recovery, business continuity, cloud migration, CDP, cloud service providers, MSP, CSP, VMware, VMware Cloud, cross-cloud, multi-cloud, VSPP, VMware Service Provider Partners, virtual machines

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