SwiftTest has Record-Breaking Year in 2010
The breakthrough year included addition of four of the top five storage vendors to the SwiftTest customer list
SANTA CLARA, CA, January 19, 2011 – SwiftTest Inc., a developer of highly-scalable test solutions for unified storage, announced that it achieved record revenue in 2010 and saw doubling of customers, product offerings, and staff, backed by new investment.
“2010 was a breakthrough year for SwiftTest. We achieved record revenue and added significant new customers,” according to Clay Marr, SwiftTest CEO. “We're proud to have as our customers, four of the top five storage vendors identified by IDC.” (Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker Q3 2010)
SwiftTest supplies the storage industry with premiere testing tools that enable functional and performance testing of IP networked storage, storage-aware network devices, and storage services. Storage demands are increasing exponentially worldwide, requiring ever-increasing QA efficiency with higher performance and more versatile load testing that supports unified storage systems at cloud scale.
SwiftTest reports a year of key initiatives that puts the company on the leading edge of this growing demand. Additional successes include:
- Protocol support: SwiftTest added NFSv4, HTTP, and iSCSI to their core NFS and CIFS/SMB protocols.
- Product launch: The SwiftTest 5000 was introduced with 10GE ports to support ever-growing, high-volume 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage networks.
- Team growth: Engineering staff and sales team additions resulted in a doubling of company size that represents SwiftTest's commitment to product development and customer engagement.
- Global expansion: To help fill demand overseas, SwiftTest and has engaged Testwise in Israel to provide local sales and support for the SwiftTest 3000 and SwiftTest 5000 systems.
Mr. Marr continued, “2010 also marked the addition of new investors led by Eric Benhamou of Benhamou Global Ventures and Mike Maples of FLOODGATE, both of whom joined our Board.”
“SwiftTest made significant progress in 2010, and I expect their progress to accelerate in 2011,” stated Mr. Benhamou. “SwiftTest's test tools will help accelerate the industry's move to unified storage systems and cloud storage.”
SwiftTest is meeting the demands for sophisticated, flexible, and powerful testing systems for networked storage, proven by customer adoption and commitment in 2010. SwiftTest is planning for significant growth in 2011 as the storage industry continues its expansion and SwiftTest deepens its customer partnerships across the market.
About SwiftTest
SwiftTest develops powerful and efficient commercial testing tools and solutions that take the burden of IP storage test tool development off of in-house engineers and QA teams. SwiftTest was founded by test industry veterans who were driven to create the next generation test platform. SwiftTest is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and is privately owned. For more information please visit www.swifttest.com.
SwiftTest, Inc.
3255 Scott Boulevard, Suite 2-101
Santa Clara, CA 95054-3013
408.716.7117
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