CloudEndure
{{Short description|American cloud computing company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = CloudEndure, Inc.
| logo = CloudEndure logo
| foundation = 2012
| location = New York, NY, United States
Ramat Gan, Israel
| key_people = Ofer Gadish (CEO)
Gil Shai (CRO)
Ofir Ehrlich (VP R&D)
Leonid Feinberg (VP Product)
| industry = Computer Software
Information Technology
Cloud Computing
| products = Disaster Recovery, Continuous Backup, and Live Migration for the Hybrid Cloud
| homepage = [https://www.cloudendure.com/ www.cloudendure.com]
}}
CloudEndure is a cloud computing company that develops business continuity software for disaster recovery, continuous backup, and live migration.{{Cite web|url=https://www.actualtech.io/cloudendure-finds-joint-answers-issues-disaster-recovery-cloud-migration/|title=Actual Tech - Disaster Recovery Cloud Migration|date=20 April 2023 }} CloudEndure is headquartered in the United States with R&D in Israel.
History
CloudEndure was founded in 2012 by Ofer Gadish (CEO), Gil Shai (CRO), Ofir Ehrlich (VP R&D), and Leonid Feinberg (VP Product).{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/startups/when-disaster-strikes-cloudendure-advises-putting-your-head-in-the-clouds/|title=When Disaster Strikes, CloudEndure Advises Putting Your Head in the Clouds|date=June 4, 2018|website=Amazon Web Services}} The same founders previously established AcceloWeb, which was acquired by Limelight Networks in 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudendure-helps-web-apps-stay-in-the-air-raises-5-2-million|title=CloudEndure Helps Web Apps Stay Online, Raises $5.2M|date=April 30, 2013|website=TNW | Insider}}{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/limelight-buys-web-and-application-acceleration-technology-startup-acceloweb/|title=Limelight Buys Web And Application Acceleration Technology Startup AcceloWeb|date=9 May 2011 }}
CloudEndure has raised a total of $18.2 million{{Cite web |title=404 Page |url=https://www.channelfutures.com/404-page |website=Channel Futures}}{{Dead url|date=June 2024}} from private investors and companies such as Dell EMC, VMware, Mitsui, Infosys, and Magma Venture Partners.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theregister.com/2017/10/26/cloudendure_profile/|title=Google's eating out of their hand – now CloudEndure 4 want to conquer Europe|first=Chris|last=Mellor|website=www.theregister.com}}
Awards for CloudEndure include the 2017 CRN Emerging Vendors Award for Storage Startups{{Cite web|url=https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/storage/300095886/emerging-vendors-2017-storage-startups-you-need-to-know.htm|title=Emerging Vendors 2017: Storage Startups You Need To Know|first=Rick|last=Whiting|date=November 27, 2017|website=CRN}} and the 2016 Gartner Cool Vendor Award.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3305023/cool-vendors-in-business-continuity-management-and-it-re|title=Cool Vendors in Business Continuity Management and IT Resilience, 2016|website=Gartner}}
CloudEndure products have been integrated as OEM software for several partner company services, including an integration into Google Cloud VM Migration Service{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/vm-migration/using-cloud-endure/|title=Google Cloud: Migrating VMs to Compute Engine using CloudEndure}} and integrations with Cisco Systems CloudCenter Disaster Recovery and Migration {{Cite web|url=https://community.cisco.com/t5/cloud-solutions-documents/brownfield-virtual-machines-disaster-recovery-using-cisco/ta-p/3654020|title=Brownfield Virtual Machines Disaster Recovery using Cisco CloudCenter and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery|date=April 17, 2018|website=community.cisco.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://community.cisco.com/t5/cloud-solutions-documents/brownfield-virtual-machine-move-using-cisco-cloudcenter-and/ta-p/3656034|title=Brownfield Virtual Machine move using Cisco CloudCenter and CloudEndure Live Migration|date=September 28, 2017|website=community.cisco.com}} and Sungard Availability Services Cloud Recovery.
Amazon made an offer to purchase CloudEndure in January 2019. Between $200 and $250 million was the negotiated price.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/why-amazon-could-buy-cloudendure-israeli-disaster-recovery-start-up.html|title=Why Amazon could buy CloudEndure, Israeli disaster recovery start-up|last=Fazzini|first=Kate|date=2019-01-07|website=www.cnbc.com|access-date=2019-01-29}} They outbid Google and acquired the company on January 10, 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-amazon-to-buy-israeli-cloud-computing-co-cloudendure-for-250m-1001268083|title=Amazon to buy Israeli cloud computing co CloudEndure for $250m|website=Globes|language=he|access-date=2019-01-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/amazon-said-to-buy-israeli-cloud-computing-firm-for-250-million/|title=Amazon said to buy Israeli cloud computing firm for $250 million|last=Solomon|first=Shoshanna|website=www.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-09}}
Products
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery performs continuous block-level replication and saves a dormant copy in the target infrastructure, which uses a smaller percentage of compute, storage, and memory than the primary site; this leads to minimal RTOs (recovery time objective) and RPOs (recovery point objective) when spun up in a disaster.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/09/cloudendure-disaster-recovery-service-secures-7-million-investment/|title=CloudEndure Disaster Recovery Service Secures $7 Million Investment|date=9 December 2015 }}
The company offers two tiers of Disaster Recovery, as well as Continuous Backup and Live Migration products.{{Cite web|url=https://www.actualtech.io/cloudendure-finds-joint-answers-issues-disaster-recovery-cloud-migration/|title=CloudEndure Finds Joint Answers to Issues of Disaster Recovery and Cloud Migration|date=May 30, 2018|website=ActualTech.io}}
CloudEndure's Software as a Service (SaaS) are application-agnostic {{Cite web|url=https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2018/01/01/storage-predictions-for-2018-by-storagenewsletter-com/|title=Storage Predictions for 2018 by StorageNewsletter.com|date=January 1, 2018|website=StorageNewsletter}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.channelfutures.com/security/pivot3-offers-dr-to-public-cloud-across-aws-azure-google|title=Pivot3 Offers DR to Public Cloud Across AWS, Azure, Google|date=May 22, 2018|website=Channel Futures}}{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.sap.com/2017/06/27/s4hana-on-the-google-cloud-platform-multi-cloud-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/|title=S/4HANA on the Google Cloud Platform: Multi-cloud the good, the bad, the ugly | SAP Blogs|website=blogs.sap.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.itbusinessedge.com/storage/continuous-replication-can-the-enterprise-live-without-it/|title=Continuous Replication: Can the Enterprise Live Without It?|date=April 29, 2014|website=IT Business Edge}}{{Cite web|url=https://reviews.financesonline.com/p/cloudendure/|title=CloudEndure Reviews: Pricing & Software Features 2020|website=Financesonline.com|date=10 May 2023 }} and can replicate workloads from physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure to a variety of target sites, including Amazon Web Services (AWS),{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/facilitating-a-migration-to-aws-with-cloudendure-by-leveraging-automation/|title=Facilitating a Migration to AWS with CloudEndure by Leveraging Automation|date=April 25, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}} Google Cloud Platform (GCP),[https://gcp.cloudendure.com/ Google VM Migration Service] Microsoft Azure,{{Cite web|url=https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-marketplace-is-reaching-new-audiences/|title=Azure Marketplace is reaching new audiences|website=azure.microsoft.com|date=7 May 2018 }} and VMware.{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/|title=VMware:VMware Cloud on AWS}}
Patents and licensing
CloudEndure Ltd. holds (or has pending) seven US patents including:
- {{cite web|url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20140279915.PGNR.|access-date=|website=|last=|first=|date=|title=20140279915A1}} – System and method for maintaining a copy of a cloud-based computing environment and restoration.
- {{cite web |url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20150249708.PGNR. |title=20150249708A1|date=|access-date=|website=|last=|first=}} – System and method for asynchronous replication of a storage in a computing environment.
- {{cite web |url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20150256510.PGNR. |title=20150256510A1|date=|access-date=|website=|last=|first=}} – System and method for name resolution of replicated components in computing environments.
- {{cite web|url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170093971.PGNR.|access-date=|website=|last=|first=|date=|title=20170093971A1}} – System and method for orchestrating replicated components in a replicated cloud-based computing environment.
- {{cite web|url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170192859.PGNR.|access-date=|website=|last=|first=|date=|title=20170192859A1}} – System and method for restoring original machines from replicated machines in a secondary computing environment.
- {{cite web|url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170111449.PGNR.|access-date=|website=|last=|first=|date=|title=20170111449A1}} – Synchronization of an order of access instructions from a primary computing environment to a replicated computing environment.
- {{cite web|url=http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20180181310.PGNR.|access-date=|website=|last=|first=|date=|title=20180181310A1}} – System and method for disk identification in a cloud-based computing environment.