privately held company ip owned by dell industry data storage devices computer storage founded 2000 founder giora yaron headquarters raanana israel key people mark weiner ceo products exastore exafs distributed file system exasync . now fluidfs website www.exanet.com exanet ltd was an israeli software company which provided scalable network attached storage software solutions to partners . exanet software was hardware independent . their clustered nas software storage solution provided single file system scalability and was compatible with linux mac and windows operating systems . after the company went into temporary receivership on february 19 2010 exanet s intellectual property was acquired by dell . contents 1 history 1.1 acquisition by dell 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit exanet was founded in 2000 by giora yaron and yossi ben shoshan and raised 30 million in two round of venture capital funding . 1 in 2003 exastore started shipping its first products . in january 2006 exanet joined the intel storage community . 2 in november 2006 exanet introduced exastore icm providing automated data storage and delivery services . 3 in march 2008 exanet introduced its solution products exastore clustered nas system and exastore clustered nas server . exanet was headquartered in israel with offices in the usa uk germany france ukraine and japan . investors included eitan wertheimer s microdent ltd. evergreen venture partners coral group and ltg development capital . 4 on december 12 2009 exanet went into temporary receivership after failing to secure an additional round of financing . 5 the company had an estimated 80 employees . 4 acquisition by dell edit in february 2010 the company ip was acquired by dell inc for 12 million . 6 7 dell continued development of the nas capability which was marketed as the dell fluid file system or fluidfs . this product comes as an appliance where the controller running the software is a dell poweredge server and the storage can be any of the three dell storage product lines dell powervault equallogic or compellent using iscsi or fibre channel connections . 8 products edit exanet was an oem provider of enterprise storage software called exastore . exastore had the following components exastore software intel based servers nodes standard gigabit ethernet or 10 gigabit ethernet networking components fibre channel attached disk array storage references edit exanet raises 17 million in second round financing silicon valley business journal dec 4 2001 exanet lefthand join intel storage community . grid today . january 30 2006 . archived from the original on september 27 2007 . retrieved may 29 2013 . chris preimesberger november 27 2006 . exanet unveils new intelligent clustered nas manager . eweek . retrieved may 29 2013 . a b shmulik shelah december 6 2009 . storage co exanet on verge of closure a potential lifeline deal with dell hit snags . globes israel s business arena . retrieved may 29 2013 . chris mellor december 7 2012 . exanet exit bound despite dell s efforts 70m risks going down the plughole . the register . retrieved may 29 2013 . dell completes purchase of exanet assets . news release . dell . february 9 2010 . retrieved may 29 2013 . shmulik shelah june 26 2012 . dell on the hunt for israeli acquisitions two dell executives met ten israeli companies and vc funds during a visit to israel last week . globes israel s business arena . retrieved may 29 2013 . an inside look dell s r & d center in israel avishay bassa geektime december 16 2013 external links edit exanet ltd. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title exanet & oldid 738482307 categories software companies of israeldefunct companies of israelnetwork attached storagedefunct computer companiescompanies acquired by dellhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 september 2016 at 06 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view