ClearSky Data adds Dave Barrett to its Board and secures $27m in Series B funding round led by Polaris Partners
Summary
Previous investors General Catalyst and Highland Capital Partners also participated in the funding, which ClearSky will use to grow its sales, marketing and operations organizations, and add new points of presence (PoPs) in major metro areas. Akamai’s strategic investment in ClearSky reflects its belief in the company’s innovative approach to primary storage, which will help enterprise IT become more agile and take advantage of hybrid cloud adoption. “We’ve entered the next generation of the enterprise and ClearSky has a great opportunity to build the next major infrastructure company.” The storage market is being transformed by the growth of cloud computing and the availability of new on-demand services. ClearSky leverages these elements to solve the challenges of traditional storage systems, which are costly, complex remnants of legacy infrastructure unable to support today’s huge and growing data footprints. “Polaris Partners and Akamai Technologies deeply understand what it means to create a breakthrough model for enterprise infrastructure,” said Ellen Rubin, CEO and co-founder of ClearSky Data.