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Software-defined storage vendor StorPool announced on Friday that its 2016 revenue increased nearly 350 percent year-over-year, crediting its web hosting provider partners for helping it grow in the U.S. and beyond.

According to StorPool, demand for software-defined storage coupled with strategic sales has helped its worldwide installed data storage capacity reach to over 5 petabytes.

StorPool added more customers from North America and Asia and Australia in 2016. Its U.S. growth was helped along through a partnership with cloud hosting provider eApps Hosting, it says. In Asia, a hosting provider in Vietnam called vHost started working with StorPool to help solve its outage problems and increase its storage system performance.

"Last year was a clear inflection point for the software-defined storage market. Previously companies were more inclined to choose a traditional storage array; in 2016 however even bricks-and-mortar businesses started to look at SDS alternatives," Boyan Ivanov, CEO at StorPool, said in a statement. "As a result, we've been winning deals from competitors providing hybrid and all-flash solutions as well as other storage software vendors. We expect this trend to accelerate over the next couple of years."

According to research released earlier this month, the international software-defined storage market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 31.62 percent. StorPool is not the only software defined storage vendor who saw growth last year; IBM reported double-digit revenue growth in its software-defined storage in 2016 as its storage hardware declined.

In 2016, StorPool launched version 13 of its software-defined storage technology, offering native back-up and disaster recovery features for data protection as well as increased OS compatibility.

Source: Web Hosting Partners Help Software-Defined Storage Vendor StorPool Expand Reach