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Solix Technologies Inc.

Solix Technologies Inc.
About us
Solix Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management solutions helps businesses to improve application performance, reduce storage costs, meet compliance and data privacy requirements by achieving Information Life cycle Management (ILM) goals, Data Governance strategies, and efficiently transition to Cloud infrastructure. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) software enables organizations to implement Database Archiving, Test Data Management (Data Subsetting), Data Masking and Application Retirement across all enterprise data. Solix ExAPPS Appliance is an integrated set of Server, storage and software components for Application Retirement all bundled into a single device. In partnership with leading
application and storage vendors, Solix provides integrated ILM, cloud enabling and Data Governance solutions for today's heterogeneous environments. Solix has an extensive global client base, including Fortune 500 companies, and is widely considered the standard for enterprise data management. Solix Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has an established world wide channel program of VARs and SIs.
Sunil Bhatia
FOUNDED:
2002
OFFICES:
HQ: Santa Clara, CA Development Center: Hyderabad, India
KEY PERSON:
Sai Gundavelli, Founder & CEO
Gundavelli is responsible for the company's overall vision and strategic direction. Under his leadership the company pioneered the concept of EDM, providing the first worldwide infrastructure platform to manage data across all segments of Enterprise Data (Structured and Unstructured). He has a proven track record in recognizing and quickly responding to the requirements of the high-technology marketplace and is the founder of many successful startups including Emagia Corporation (www.emagia.com) and SITI Corporation (www.siti.com). Prior to founding Solix technologies, he spearheaded several strategic initiatives in Enterprise Application areas at technology leaders likeb CISCO Systems and Arix Corp. Gundavelli is a member of the Churchill Club, TIE Charter member and also amember of NASSCOM. He is a business and technology thought leader and a distinguished speaker in many forums. He holds a Masters inMechanical Engineering from University of Oklahoma and Bachelors from Osmania University.
CLIENTELE:
Honeywell, Bombardier, Herbalife, Social Security Administration, Center for Medicare Services, DHL, Dubai Islamic Bank, CTC Japan, Ping An Insurance China, Aircel, Irving Oil, Nextel Mexico, Schneider National, Tyco, Readers Digest, Duke Energy, Overstock.com, Diebold, RJ Reynolds
INVESTORS:
Angel & Corporate
COMPETITORS:
IBM, HP and Informatica
WEBSITE:
www.solix.com
PRODUCT OFFERINGS:
The product offerings are delivered with on-premise, on-device and on-demand model.
  • Solix Enterprise DataManagement Suite: Solix EDMS data governance platform enables organizations to implement Database Archiving, Test Data Management (Data Subsetting), Data Masking and Application Retirement across all enterprise data using the on-premise software deployment.
  • Solix ExAPPS: Solix ExAPPS Appliance is an integrated set of Server, storage and software components for Application Retirement all bundled into a single device. Solix ExAPPS is an on-device delivery model.
  • Solix Cloud Enabling Solutions: Is an on-demand delivery model that enables enterprises for cloud infrastructure, data center consolidation and virtualization projects.
WHAT NEXT?
Solix vision is all about efficiency, do more with less, organizing data, optimizing CPU, memory, storage, and therefore energy usage. This has an impact on the entire infrastructure in data centers or cloud - (i.e) network, hardware and software resources and of course on backup/recovery operations. With the above vision, Solix is expanding the data governance platform to Big Data to help enterprises get a handle on figuring out the value of the data and better govern and secure the data.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:
New GenerationArchitecture Industry’s first application retirement appliance SolixApplication Portfolio Manager (SolixAPM)
Robust Technology
Maximum enterprise application integrations OEM’ed by Oracle
REVENUE MODEL:
Enterprise licensing & pay per usage.
TIME LINE: MAJOR MILESTONES
  • 2004 - First Version of Product: ArchiveJinni
  • 2005 - V 2.0 – ArchiveJinni
  • 2006 – V3.0 – ArchiveJinni
  • 2007 – V 3.2 – Solix EDMS
  • 2008 – V 4.0 All newWeb interface with support for new applications, databases and WORM storage
  • 2009 – V 4.5 Support for Application Retirement
  • 2010 – Solix ExAPPS
  • 2011 – Solix Cloud Enabling Solutions and Solix EDMS 5.0