Where is (Da)Stratum?

DaStratum or Stratum, emerging player in Cloud Data Management incorporated in December 2015 and based at the Sunnyvale Plug-and-Play, shared strange indicators inviting us to believe that the company ceased its activity. At the time when we write this post:

• 2 co-founders - Kapil Kumar and Anil Sharma - work respectively for Google and AWS according to their LinkedIn page but they're still listed on the company web site.
• We discovered also that the company blog part is empty using the default template with random texts, giving not a good feeling.
• Crunchbase page for DaStratum doesn't exist.
• and interestingly, Rob Salmon, Cohesity COO and ex-NetApp COO, and Jay Kidd, ex-CTO NetApp also partner at Wing Venture Capital, seat at the board. Both of them don't list Stratum on their profile and Wing seems to not be an investor there as the company is not listed on its portfolio.

We're still in the fog.

In term of solution, the company, still in stealth (?), addresses the challenge to manage and protect cloud data at scale. The team has designed and built a multi-tier cloud file system named Stradl file system, that transparently allocates data block across multiple tiers of storage. They also offer advanced snapshot method with instantaneous, zero footprint copies and an approach to control the copy sprawl of data in cloud - it's so easy to create data that they live everywhere -.

It was/is promising but we're stil in the fog...