Drobo

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Last activity: 05.08.2021

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Drobo, a StorCentric company, makes award-winning storage solutions that provide an unprecedented combination of data protection, expandability, and ease of use. Using our award-winning BeyondRAID™ technology, Drobo delivers the best storage experience ever for hundreds of thousands of consumers, professionals, and businesses.

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Location

United States, California, Sunnyvale

Employees

51-200

Phone

(408)454-4200

Founded date

2004

Investors 1

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Aug 5, 2021	StorCentric’s Drobo to Join Lume Cube’s World Photography Day Giveaway	“We are delighted for the opportunity to join Lume Cube and the other premier creative solutions providers in this year’s World Photography Day giveaway,” said Samina Subedar, Vice President of Marketing, StorCentric. SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRW...
Apr 22, 2021	StorCentric Featured on the 2021 CRN® Storage 100 List; Named to The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2021 Storage 100	“We are extremely pleased to have been recognized once again by CRN, one of the most well-known and highly respected voices in the channel community,” said Mihir Shah, CEO of StorCentric. SUNNYVALE, Calif. (PRWEB) April 22, 2021 StorCentric...
Jul 13, 2016	Three ways a CEO can boost morale	Better morale is critical to your company's success It can be hard to boost morale during times of crisis and change. Luckily, CEOs can do some simple and free things that will tremendously impact your team’s morale. Here are my top three. ...
Sep 29, 2015	Drobo Completes Equity and Debt Funding Round	Drobo, a Santa Clara, CA-based maker of storage arrays for businesses, professionals and consumers, completed an equity financing round led by Empire Capital Management. In addition, the company has secured a $4M debt facility from East Wes...
Jul 29, 2014	New Drobo Mini Hard Drive Now Comes With SSDs, Ruggedized Flash Array	Connected Data announced the latest addition to its extensive family of external storage devices: the portable, rugged and expandable Drobo Mini with Solid-State Drives (SSD). The company, known for providing simple redundant data protectio...
Jan 15, 2014	Windows Storage Spaces and ReFS: Is it time to ditch RAID for good?	If you're like most other IT pros I know, you're probably already cringing just at the title of this article. And I don't blame you one bit. How many times has Microsoft tried to usher in the post-RAID era? Every previous try has either bee...
Jan 31, 2013	After A Successful Kickstarter Campaign, Connected Data Raises $6M For Its Transporter Secure Cloud Storage Device	A new company called Connected Data wants to change the way people do cloud storage, with a dedicated, Internet-connected storage device called the Transporter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the company is looking to get the prod...
Dec 13, 2012	Drobo hits the turbo-boost with newly launched 5N home NAS	The five bay Drobo 5N. Drobo reader comments 88 with 49 posters participating, including story author Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit California-based Drobo today announced the launch of their new Drobo 5...
Jun 28, 2012	First look: Drobo’s new Thunderbolt-equipped Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D	The new Drobo Mini uses 2.5" laptop hard drives to reduce its size and weight—it's 1.8 inches tall and weighs just over two pounds without any hard drives installed. reader comments 47 with 33 posters participating, including story aut...
Jun 21, 2012	Drobo Drops Out Another Two DAS Enclosures, The Mini And The 5D	Drobo has just released two new drives, the svelte Dobo Mini and the beefier 5D. The Mini is a four-disk enclosure that takes 2.5” laptop drives and it can automatically set up and and format them for maximum capacity or full redundancy. Th...
Feb 22, 2011	Drobo to Exhibit New Storage Solutions for Business at CeBIT 2011	Drobo’s New Line of Business Products to be Showcased for the First Time in Europe at CeBIT 2011, Hall 2, Stand F38, Booth A7 LONDON, UK. – 22 February, 2011 - Drobo, the maker of award-winning data storage products for businesses and profe...
May 21, 2010	Data Robotics Drobo S Nominated as 2010 Editor's Choice in Macworld Magazine	Drobo S Among Finalists in “Best Business Storage” Category LONDON, UK – May 21, 2010 – Data Robotics, the company that delivers the best data storage experience, today announced that Drobo S has been nominated as a Macworld Awards 2010 Edi...
Jan 4, 2010	Jason Calacanis' Top Tech Products (And A Political Rant)	Jason Calacanis lists his own favorite tech products after reading ours. His list, which was sent out to his mailing list earlier today, is below. Along with one heck of a political rant about the middle east and energy policy, which we hav...
Oct 29, 2009	Data Robotics Raises $10 Million For SMB Storage	Data Robotics, a company that creates automated data storage products, has raised $10 million in Series E funding led by Focus Ventures with Greylock Partners, New Enterprise Associates, RRE Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures participating. ...
May 6, 2009	The Boxee App Dev Challenge	Image by fredwilson via Flickr Our portfolio company Boxee makes a browser that is optimized for consuming internet content on your TV set. You (or CE hardware companies) put Boxee's browser on a device that is connected to the internet and...
Apr 7, 2009	Data Robotics releases planet-crushing 8-drive Drobo Pro	In the wide world of NASes, the Drobo is still my sweetheart. It’s foolproof, sexy, and there are even cool apps for it now. They refreshed it a while ago but I knew they had to have something more up their collective sleeve. Indeed they di...
Nov 26, 2008	CrunchDeals: Drobo on the cheap	Just in time for the economic downturn and holidays, Drobo has announced they’ve slashed prices on their 2TB and 4TB packages. Many thanks to Western Digital for providing the Drobo folks with 1TB GreenPower drives on the cheap. The price o...
Nov 14, 2008	Tricking Time Machine into working with a Drobo	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Erik Barzeski, formerly the programmer behind such titles as PulpFiction, FTPeel, and MailDrop, has a post on his blog regardin...
Oct 21, 2008	DroboApps: exactly what it sounds like	So you got yourself a Drobo. It’s great, right? But, you think, I’ve got this little robot storing things for me. It reorganizes my data, it does intelligent backup. Why can’t we teach it a few new tricks? They’re way ahead of you over at D...
Oct 13, 2008	LaCie big boxin' it with the 5Big RAID NAS	LaCie, no stranger to the storage game, is putting out a unique-looking and high-capacity RAID network-attached storage box. It’ll hold up to 7.5TB at the moment, which is a huge amount but looks smaller every day as storage capacities skyr...
Sep 2, 2008	Data Robotics raises $15 million for Drobo backup storage business	Data Robotics has raised $15 million in a fourth round of funding for its consumer-focused Drobo backup storage business. The Santa Clara, Calif., company makes “data robots,” or external backup storage units that make it easy to back up da...
Jul 8, 2008	Drobo 2 revealed: Dual FireWire 800 ports!	We’ve been over the Drobo a few times, as well a couple of alternatives (I like this one), and I’ve always considered it a good product with one major drawback: it’s only USB 2.0. For people doing video editing or frequently copying super-b...
Jun 12, 2008	NewerTech's "green" RAID storage solution	There are a million storage solutions out there, from your run-of-the-mill WD external to the increasingly popular multi-drive, RAID setups like NewerTech’s and Drobo. How does this so-called “green” system stack up, and what exactly makes ...
May 28, 2008	Drobo shacks up with Western Digital: special multi-terabyte offers!	In case you missed our recent review of the Drobo and Droboshare, they come highly recommended, and if you’re looking to take the plunge, now is probably the best time ever. Data Robotics has teamed up with Western Digital and they’re bundl...
Jan 15, 2008	Drobo Share upgrades Drobo, adds NAS functionality	reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit When I reviewed Data Robotic's Drobo last summer, I was impressed with the unit as a first-generation product, but its inabilit...
Jan 14, 2008	Drobo gets a playmate	Drobo, our favorite storage robot, now has a sidekick, the DroboShare. Couldn’t you have come up with a fancier name then that? Well, whatever. If you have a Drobo and need to share that content with others in your LAN then the DroboShare i...
Aug 6, 2007	Storage robot at your service: a review of the Drobo	reader comments 0 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Meet the Drobo Drobo Manufacturer: Data Robotics, Inc. (product page) Operating systems supported: Windows (2000, 2003, XP, V...
Jun 8, 2007	Drobo Review: Frickin' Awesome	Drobo: Small device, big storage I personally use a lot of storage. Every year, I find myself buying yet another 200GB external hard drive because my iTunes library is swelling or I’ve pirated enough movies to make Paramount go bankrupt. Ei...
Apr 10, 2007	Drobo Is A Robot With A RAID-Array	Meet Drobo . He’s a robot and although he doesn’t look like one, he certainly can do plenty of robot-like things. The device comes with four separate drive bays and can intelligently control the data managed on them. Watching a movie on dri...

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FAQ about Drobo

When was Drobo founded?

Drobo was founded in 2004.

What has the press written about Drobo?

Parsers VC has collected 30 articles mentioning Drobo, among them “StorCentric’s Drobo to Join Lume Cube’s World Photography Day Giveaway” (Aug 5, 2021) and “StorCentric Featured on the 2021 CRN® Storage 100 List; Named to The 40 Coolest Software-Defined Storage Vendors: The 2021 Storage 100” (Apr 22, 2021).

Is Drobo still active?

Yes, Drobo is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 5, 2021.