StrongBox Data Solutions

About StrongBox Data Solutions

StrongLink, formerly known as StrongBox Data Solutions, provides an intelligent data management platform for large-scale data environments, catering to clients with data volumes scaling from petabytes to exabytes. The company has a history rooted in data storage technology, with its origins tracing back to Crossroads Systems before being acquired by ETI-NET. In March 2016, a buyout led by David Cerf established StrongBox Data Solutions (SBDS), which was then acquired by the private investment firm Partner One Capital. A significant milestone occurred in November 2017 when the company secured a $27 million investment round, co-led by Partner One Capital and Fonds de solidarité FTQ, to accelerate the global expansion of its flagship product, StrongLink. The company officially rebranded from StrongBox Data Solutions to StrongLink on April 1, 2022, to align its corporate identity with its product focus.

The company's business model revolves around its software platform, which simplifies data and storage management across multi-vendor environments. StrongLink serves enterprises in data-intensive sectors such as government, research, high-performance computing (HPC), and media and entertainment. It generates revenue through the deployment of its software, which helps organizations reduce storage costs, increase productivity, and lessen IT management complexity. Clients include prominent organizations like NASA, the Library of Congress, Bosch, and Canon.

StrongLink's core product is a software solution that creates a unified, global namespace, offering a single view of all data across disparate and incompatible storage systems, including flash, disk, cloud, and tape. The platform leverages metadata, machine learning, and AI to automate data classification, lifecycle management, and workflow automation in real-time. A key feature is its vendor-neutral approach, which avoids locking customers into specific hardware by not using stubs or agents. The software can be deployed on-premises, on virtual machines, or in the cloud and is designed for high availability with a self-healing architecture. StrongLink also provides robust disaster recovery through multi-site, bi-directional replication and features a powerful query engine for complex searches across vast numbers of files. It supports various protocols like NFS, SMB, S3, and LTFS, and includes a command-line interface (CLI) for HPC and scripted workflows.