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AMPLIDATA is a privately held cloud storage solutions provider based in Lochristi, Belgium. In November 2010, Amplidata opened U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California. The research and development department has locations in Belgium and Egypt, while the sales and support departments are represented in a number of countries in Europe and North America.
Amplidata provides a scale out storage system technology designed to improve storage providers ability to meet increasing demands for capacity and reliability as well as meet their internal demands of simplified management and power efficiency.
Amplidata has developed a Distributed Storage System (DSS) technology designed to solve the scalability and reliability problems traditional storage systems face, by taking advantage of the introduction of large capacity SATA drives and solid state disk. By storing data across a selection of disks that are widely distributed across storage nodes, racks and sites, the DSS architecture spreads the risk of hardware failure to ensure that a failure of a component such as a disk, storage node or even a full rack has no impact on data availability and a minimal impact on data redundancy. The entire system is permanently monitored and data integrity is constantly checked. As a result, bit errors on disks are proactively healed before they become an issue to the user.
Amplidata's AmpliStor distributes and stores data redundantly across a large number of disks. The algorithm that AmpliStor uses first puts the data into an object and then stores the data across multiple disks in the AmpliStor system. By storing the data as an object, Amplidata can reconstruct the original data from any of the disks on which the data within the object resides.
Amplidata’s worldwide partners include: Incubaid, Milestone Systems, Racktivity, A-Server, and Zenith Infotech.
Amplidata was acquired in March 2015 by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary.