BridgeSTOR, LLC is a Hybrid Cloud Storage Company headquartered in Carlsbad, CA, near San Diego. The company is extending the boundaries of usual cloud to Windows, NFS, VTL's and a Global File System. BridgeSTOR was founded in May 2010. The media, the analyst community and many industry veterans refer to the company’s CEO, John Matze, as a “serial entrepreneur” with highly-respected credentials in identifying and filling technology gaps in storage product portfolios. Led by a management team that enjoys more than 100 years of data protection and storage industry experience and holding 10 storage industry patents, BridgeSTOR is bringing innovative and high-demand disaster recovery, archive, data reduction and backup solutions to: ■Small to medium sized businesses (SMB) ■Divisions and departments of business enterprises ■Government entities ■Colleges and universities ■Financial institutions ■Workgroups within businesses of all sizes BridgeSTOR is a privately held and privately funded company with the shared vision that the future of data access lies in the Cloud.