John Glendenning

Releasing the full potential of open source data platforms...

📍 Kingston upon Hull, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Member of the Board & SVP WW Sales
Nov 2015
At StorMagic, it’s our mission to solve the world's edge data problems. Today’s organizations need new & innovative ways to store, protect, & use their data at and from the edge. Our Forever Data solutions allow them to do just that by protecting data & ensuring it’s always available, no matter the type or location, to provide value anytime, anywhere… even forever. Our storage & security products are flexible, robust, easy to use, operate from the harshest edge environments to pristine datacenters, & cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with 1 to 1000’s of sites. Here’s how we help: 🗄️SvSAN: A highly available two-node virtual SAN for hyperconverged edge sites. 🔑SvKMS: An encryption key manager for edge, datacenter, & cloud. 📹ARQvault VMS: The most cost-effective way to capture, use & retain surveillance video. StorMagic customers world-wide have deployed our solutions in 1000’s of sites to store, protect, & use their edge data at significantly lower costs. Across many of industries, including retail stores, factories, hospitals, universities, wind farms & oil rigs, we help today’s organizations tackle the modernization & optimization of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2006, StorMagic envision a simplified storage & security landscape, with solutions that minimize hardware & don’t require specialist skills to deploy and manage. We help liberate organizations from cost & complexities of physical SANs, Hardware Security Modules, or other legacy hardware. Unlike our competitors, who force customers to adopt over-provisioned, datacenter-class solutions to overcome edge environment limitations, we have specifically designed our software for demanding environments where resources, space, & budgets are limited. Our product strategy? Deliver the most advanced edge data software platform so you can forever store, protect, & use your data at & from the edge. Keep your edge with StorMagic – the Forever Data company
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2022
Co-Founder
Jul 2022
Built by Cassandra experts, the only cloud native solution to monitor, maintain and backup any Cassandra cluster anywhere. Get started today and release Cassandra’s full potential. Monitor: - Visualize metrics & logs with dynamic dashboards - Proactive Service Checks to never miss an issue - Comprehensive alerting with enterprise-wide integration Maintain: - Adaptive and Scheduled Cassandra Repairs to always be one step ahead - Maintenance Job Scheduler to automate your key tasks - Detailed cluster Configuration Views for the insights you need Backup: - Backup scheduling - Visualise your backups and restores - Restore backups with confidence
2015
Member of the Board & SVP WW Sales
Nov 2015
At StorMagic, it’s our mission to solve the world's edge data problems. Today’s organizations need new & innovative ways to store, protect, & use their data at and from the edge. Our Forever Data solutions allow them to do just that by protecting data & ensuring it’s always available, no matter the type or location, to provide value anytime, anywhere… even forever. Our storage & security products are flexible, robust, easy to use, operate from the harshest edge environments to pristine datacenters, & cost-effective, without sacrificing enterprise-class features, for organizations with 1 to 1000’s of sites. Here’s how we help: 🗄️SvSAN: A highly available two-node virtual SAN for hyperconverged edge sites. 🔑SvKMS: An encryption key manager for edge, datacenter, & cloud. 📹ARQvault VMS: The most cost-effective way to capture, use & retain surveillance video. StorMagic customers world-wide have deployed our solutions in 1000’s of sites to store, protect, & use their edge data at significantly lower costs. Across many of industries, including retail stores, factories, hospitals, universities, wind farms & oil rigs, we help today’s organizations tackle the modernization & optimization of their IT infrastructure. Founded in 2006, StorMagic envision a simplified storage & security landscape, with solutions that minimize hardware & don’t require specialist skills to deploy and manage. We help liberate organizations from cost & complexities of physical SANs, Hardware Security Modules, or other legacy hardware. Unlike our competitors, who force customers to adopt over-provisioned, datacenter-class solutions to overcome edge environment limitations, we have specifically designed our software for demanding environments where resources, space, & budgets are limited. Our product strategy? Deliver the most advanced edge data software platform so you can forever store, protect, & use your data at & from the edge. Keep your edge with StorMagic – the Forever Data company
2006
early stage technology companies
Advisor and seed investor
Oct 2006
Several early stage technology companies
Advisor and seed investor
Oct 2006
2001
Managing Director, WW OEM Sales
Sep 2001
When we pioneered remote access, we believed people should be able to work anywhere and in any way they need. Three decades later, that’s even more true than ever. It’s what drives us to create technology that transcends the constraints of time, place, infrastructure, networks, and devices. And it’s the reason thousands of organizations around the world trust us to keep their apps available, their data safe, and their people productive—wherever and whenever work happens. Citrix is now part of Cloud Software Group. To see career and people content, visit Cloud Software Groups LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudsoftwaregroup/
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