down operations in 2011 1 founded 2008 headquarters san jose california key people ceo gary messiana co founder & cto dan decasper co founder & chief architect allen samuels products bluejet cloud storage controller website www.cirtas.com cirtas systems was a privately held company based in san jose california . the company was founded in 2008 raised us 32.5 million in private funding and shut down its operations in 2011 . 1 its primary product the cirtas bluejet cloud storage controller was a cloud storage gateway device that used public cloud storage utilities such as amazon s3 the iron mountain archive services platform at & t synaptic storage as a service and emc atmos for storing business data while maintaining enterprise storage array performance and functionality . 2 3 4 cirtas s bluejet cloud storage controllers were targeted at the enterprise market with pricing starting at about 70 000 per device . 5 on september 20 2010 cirtas emerged from stealth mode at the storage decisions announcing its bluejet cloud storage controller available immediately through channel partners . bluejet cached high priority data locally while using wan optimization technology . the 2 rack unit 3.5 in high appliance acted as a local cache that uses a combination of dram solid state drives and hard disk drives . the multiple tiers of storage are governed by automated algorithms that allow bluejet to place data on the appropriate media based on access patterns to achieve the best performance . the bluejet appliance promised data compression ratios of 2 1 to 3 1 depending on the data type and a data de duplication ratio as high as 50 1 for backup . overall cirtas raised us 32.5 million in private funding . in september 2010 cirtas announced that it received us 10 million in a round funding led by new enterprise associates lightspeed venture partners and amazon.com . 6 7 8 9 in january 2011 cirtas announced that it had raised us 22.5 million in b round funding led by shasta ventures and bessemer venture partners . 10 in 2010 cirtas was named a red herring top 100 north american company for its innovative approach to make cloud storage work like traditional on site storage arrays . 11 in 2011 red herring further awarded cirtas the 2010 global 100 award recognizing the hundred most promising private companies in the world . 12 according to arun taneja of taneja group when tested in enterprises at large scale the bluejet controllers failed to bring the needed performance . citation needed in april 2011 cirtas pulled out of the market laid off most of its staff and the venture capital companies funding cirtas rescinded their investment in the company . 13 see also edit cloud computing cloud storage cloud storage gateway references edit a b cloud storage startup cirtas retreats . april 21 2011 gigaom show me the gateway taking storage to the cloud by gary orenstein jun. 22 2010 1 storage newsletter start up s profile cirtas systems by jean jacques maleval jun. 9 2010 2 searchstorage what s keeping data storage out of the cloud by chris griffin 3 goldfisher alastair cloud storage company cirtas raises 22 million . reuters january 26 2011 computerworld start up unveils san to cloud optimizer appliance by lucas mearian sept. 20 2010 4 cloud computing journal cloud computing cirtas systems closes 10 million series a funding round by liz mcmillan sept. 20 2010 5 enterprise storage forum cirtas launches cloud storage controller by kevin komiega sept. 20 2010 6 venturebeat cirtas raises 10m and soars into cloud storage by dean takahashi sept. 20 2010 7 cirtas systems nets 22.5 million in series b funding for bluejet cloud storage controller jan. 25 2011 8 cirtas systems named one of red herring s top 100 mark of distinction identifying innovative new companies by salvatore genovese jun. 29 2010 9 cirtas systems wins red herring global 100 award jan. 28 2011 cirtas systems implodes vc pulls out ; 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