RAID

What RAID does

RAID Inc. is a privately held, founder-led provider of custom high-performance storage and compute solutions, headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts and operating since 1994. The company designs, integrates, and supports fully customized storage architectures, including the ARI-600 Series block storage platform with declustered RAID and self-healing technology (SSDR), the Xanadu X-AI Series for AI/DL workloads, the Ability line of JBOD/JBOF expansion enclosures, the DataEdge Transporter for portable high-capacity edge transport, and the Grid Storage Manager software-defined storage platform. RAID Inc. integrates parallel file systems (IBM Spectrum Scale, StorNext, Lustre, Lustre on ZFS) and qualified commodity components (24TB/20TB HDDs from Seagate and Western Digital, Intel processors, Supermicro systems) into plug-and-play solutions that are deployed at scale (hundreds of petabytes and thousands of CPUs reported in customer deployments).

The company's revenue model is built around three streams: custom high-performance storage hardware sales, professional services and integration (needs assessment, installation, concierge post-sale support with dedicated engineers assigned per customer), and software/file system solutions delivered as integrated stacks. Pricing is quote-based on multi-year contracts with no publicly disclosed tiers; customers engage via direct enterprise sales (800-330-7335 Ext. 1), email, and a 'Talk to an Expert' consultation flow. Go-to-market is exclusively direct, with no resellers or distributors beyond the DDN Lustre preferred-reseller arrangement.

RAID Inc. serves data-intensive verticals including federal government, national laboratories, defense, academic research, life sciences, AI/ML, energy, financial services, geospatial, and video surveillance. Named customers include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, MIT, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Brookhaven, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Intel, Akamai, the US Department of Justice/FBI, the US Department of Defense, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Library of Congress, and others. The company holds multiple granted patents covering declustered RAID caching, vibration isolation, and thermal zone cooling, and operates 24/7/365 concierge support.

Name

RAID

Legal name

RAID Incorporated

Website

https://raidinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

RAID Inc. (founded 1994, Lawrence, MA) designs and integrates custom high-performance storage systems and parallel file system solutions for federal agencies, national laboratories, defense, academic research, life sciences, AI, and energy customers, delivering petabyte-scale plug-and-play deployments with 24/7 concierge support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Data Storage

NAICS

Computer Storage Device Manufacturing (334112), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572)

akta.pro primary industry

Storage Controllers, RAID & Caching (RAID Cards, NVMe Controllers) (HDACACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

NAS Storage Systems (HDABAEAB), HCI Storage & Distributed Storage (HDABAEAJ), Cloud Storage Gateways & Hybrid Storage (HDABAEAI)

Keywords

• High-performance storage
• Block storage systems
• Parallel file systems
• HPC storage infrastructure
• Enterprise data storage

Headquarters

HQ city

Andover

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Custom High-Performance Storage Hardware: RAID Inc. designs, develops, and delivers custom high-performance storage solutions including block storage systems (ARI-600 Series), file storage appliances (Xanadu X-AI Series), JBOD/JBOF expansion enclosures (Ability product line), edge storage (DataEdge Transporter), and AI compute servers (Fusion AI Servers). Solutions are fully customized, tested, optimized, and delivered as plug-and-play, integrating into existing infrastructure.
2. Professional Services and Integration: The company provides end-to-end professional services including needs assessment, proof of concept, physical solution design, installation, and concierge technical support. Services include rack and stack, cabling, OS installation, network switch configuration, performance testing, QC and documentation, and onsite reassembly and verification. Every customer is assigned a dedicated support engineer, engineering manager, and committed sales consultant.
3. Software and File System Solutions: RAID Inc. offers integrated software solutions including IBM Spectrum Scale, StorNext, Lustre, Lustre on ZFS, and Grid Storage Manager software-defined storage. These are delivered as integrated solutions with ongoing support.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

RAID Inc. designs, develops, and delivers custom high-performance storage solutions—including block storage (ARI-600 Series), parallel file system appliances (Xanadu X-AI, Spectrum Scale, StorNext), JBOD/JBOF expansion enclosures (Ability line), edge storage (DataEdge Transporter), AI compute servers (Fusion AI Servers), and software-defined storage (Grid Storage Manager)—integrated with end-to-end professional services for data-intensive enterprises, government agencies, national laboratories, and academic institutions.

Product overview

RAID Inc. offers a comprehensive portfolio of custom high-performance storage solutions organized across multiple product categories. File storage includes the Xanadu X-AI Series (GPU-optimized AI/deep learning platform), IBM Spectrum Scale, and StorNext. Block storage is anchored by the ARI-600 Series with three form factors (2U 12-bay, 2U 24-bay, 5U 84-bay). Compute offerings feature Fusion AI Servers for AI workloads. Edge solutions include the DataEdge Transporter for portable high-capacity transfers. JBOD/JBOF expansion enclosures span the Ability line: 4U 60-Bay, 4U 102-Bay, 4U 106-Bay, 5U 84-Bay JBODs, and 2U 24-Bay JBOF. Software-defined storage is delivered via Grid Storage Manager supporting iSCSI/FC/NFS/SMB/S3 protocols. Specialized file system solutions include Lustre (with DDN partnership) and Lustre on ZFS (with Whamcloud partnership). Integrated Solutions services provide turnkey deployment. The portfolio serves diverse industries including AI/ML, academic research, energy, government, financial services, geospatial, life sciences, national laboratories, and video surveillance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ARI-600 Series: Block-level storage platform with advanced data protection, capacity, and performance featuring redundant active/active controllers, declustered RAID, and self-healing technology.
• Ability JBOD/JBOF
• DataEdge Transporter
• Xanadu X-AI Series
• Fusion AI Servers
• Grid Storage Manager

Products and services

• Xanadu X-AI Series GPU-optimized file storage platform engineered for AI and Deep Learning workloads, offering all-flash NVMe and hybrid flash/hard drive configurations tuned for ingest, training, data transformations, replication, and metadata operations. Targeted at organizations running AI/HPC on GPU clusters.
• Spectrum Scale Solution IBM Spectrum Scale-based high-performance clustered file system delivered by RAID Inc. as a software-defined storage solution for big data analytics, supporting shared-disk or shared-nothing distributed parallel modes with extreme scalability. Used by many of the world's largest enterprises and supercomputers.
• StorNext Solution High-speed shared-storage file system combined with data management software designed for sharing, preserving, and analyzing massive volumes of unstructured data using scale-out storage virtualization. Targets media, research, and enterprise workflows with large unstructured datasets.
• ARI-600 Series Block-level storage platform with redundant active/active controllers, declustered RAID data protection, and Self-Healing storage (SSDR). Delivers up to 740K IOPs, 12 GB/s sequential read, 10 GB/s sequential write throughput, with max capacity up to 8PB CMR. Available in 2U 12-bay, 2U 24-bay, and 5U 84-bay form factors.
• Fusion AI Servers AI-ready infrastructure solutions including Large Scale systems with NVIDIA HGX H100 GPU configurations, HPC/AI platforms with GPU-accelerated parallel computing, Inference and Training systems, Visualization and Design workstations, and Content Delivery and Virtualization servers. Targeted at large-scale training, HPC/AI workloads, inference, and content delivery use cases.
• DataEdge Transporter High-capacity transportable NVMe SSD storage appliance designed for high-performance data transfers between edge locations and datacenter environments. Offers up to 368TB NVMe flash storage in 2U rack form factor, dual-port 200GbE connectivity, FIPS 140-2 compliant TPM 2.0 security, TAA compliance, and a wheeled travel case for transport. Targets government and military operations, remote research, geophysical exploration, and cloud transport.
• Ability 4U 60-Bay JBOD High-density 4U rackmount JBOD enclosure supporting up to 60 3.5-inch drives with up to 1.4PB CMR or 1.8PB SMR capacity. Features patented vibration isolation and thermal zone cooling technologies for consistent performance and reliability.
• Ability 4U 102-Bay JBOD Next-generation disaggregated storage JBOD delivering up to 102 drive bays with up to 2.4PB CMR or 3PB SMR capacity per chassis. Supports hybrid configurations with up to 24 SSD slots for data acceleration.
• Ability 4U 106-Bay JBOD Industry's largest building-block JBOD enclosure with 106 drive bays delivering up to 2.5PB CMR per chassis with 36GB/s maximum bandwidth. Features modular design with hot-swappable components and toolless drive carriers.
• Ability 5U 84-Bay JBOD 5U rackmount JBOD enclosure supporting up to 84 3.5-inch SAS drives with 12Gb/s SAS interface, delivering up to 2PB CMR capacity per chassis with dual I/O modules and 28.8 GB/s throughput in dual-controller configuration.
• Ability 2U 24-Bay JBOF Flash-based storage expansion enclosure providing up to 1.2 GB/s sequential read/write performance with up to 360TB SSD capacity in 2U rack space. Features 12G SAS connectivity, hot-swappable components, sub-millisecond latency, and FIPS-140-2/TAA certified media options. Expands up to 10 JBOFs via 12G SAS connectivity.
• Grid Storage Manager Software-defined storage platform providing unified storage management with support for file, block, and object protocols (iSCSI/FC, NFS/SMB, S3). Enables storage virtualization, thin provisioning, data deduplication, and integration with cloud storage.
• Lustre on ZFS Solution High-performance Lustre parallel file system on ZFS offering enterprise-level support, leveraging open-source Lustre 2.12 and ZFS on Linux 0.7. Combines open-source software with commercial support for HPC workloads, offering higher density and lower TCO.
• Lustre Solution High-performance parallel file system powering seven of the ten largest HPC clusters in the world, scaling to many petabytes of storage while supporting tens of thousands of clients. RAID Inc. partners with DDN Enterprise Edition for Lustre software to deliver this solution for HPC workloads.
• Integrated Solutions Service Full-service integration offering including complete rack and stack, cabling, network switch setup, OS installation, storage configuration, performance testing, QC, documentation, onsite installation, and training. Provides plug-and-play delivery of customized storage solutions alongside hardware sales.

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 740K IOPs and 12GB/s sequential read throughput on ARI-600 Series
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers54 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• DDN (DataDirect Networks)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 February 2019DDN named RAID Inc. a preferred reseller of DDN's distribution of Lustre. DDN develops the world's most scalable parallel file system software. RAID Inc. partners with DDN Enterprise Edition for Lustre software, unleashing the performance and scalability of Lustre parallel file system for HPC workloads.
• MicrowayminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 November 2018Microway and RAID Inc. announced collaboration to deliver AI Compute + Data Solutions together. Solutions are delivered as a unified deployment and single customer experience, combining Microway's AI compute expertise with RAID Inc.'s data storage capabilities for commercial, academic, and government organizations.
• WhamcloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationRAID Inc. partners with Whamcloud (core Lustre developers) to deliver Lustre on ZFS solutions. Whamcloud provides the open-source ZFS on Linux expertise that enables RAID Inc. to offer enterprise-level support for Lustre over ZFS, combining open-source software with robust commercial support.
• IBM (Spectrum Scale)coreTechnology or IntegrationRAID Inc. is a provider of IBM Spectrum Scale-based solutions, a high-performance clustered file system developed as software-defined storage for big data analytics. Spectrum Scale-based solutions by RAID Inc. are used by many of the world's largest enterprises and supercomputers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise): HPE offers a broad HPC and storage portfolio (including parallel file system and Lustre-based solutions) and competes with RAID Inc. for federal, national lab, and enterprise HPC deals.
• IBM Spectrum Scale (IBM): IBM is both a partner (RAID Inc. provides Spectrum Scale-based solutions) and a broad incumbent offering Spectrum Scale as part of a much larger storage, server, and software portfolio. The strategic relationship plus competitive overlap makes IBM a critical comparable.
• Dell Technologies (Dell EMC): Dell EMC is a broad incumbent in enterprise and HPC storage (PowerScale, PowerStore, ECS). Dell is also a technology partner supplying components to RAID Inc., illustrating the dual incumbent/supplier dynamic that defines much of the HPC storage market.
• NetApp: NetApp is a major enterprise storage vendor whose ONTAP and NFS/SMB platforms compete with RAID Inc.'s file storage and software-defined Grid Storage Manager offerings, especially in enterprise and government accounts.
• Pure Storage: Pure Storage is a leading all-flash enterprise storage vendor whose FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms compete with RAID Inc.'s ARI-600 and Ability JBOF product lines in high-performance block and file storage.

Direct peers

• DDN (DataDirect Networks): DDN is the leading independent provider of high-performance storage for HPC and AI. RAID Inc. is a preferred reseller of DDN's Lustre distribution and competes with DDN in the same HPC/parallel file system storage market, targeting many of the same national lab and enterprise customers.
• VAST Data: VAST Data is a high-performance, AI-focused storage platform combining flash, network, and software-defined storage at scale. It targets the same AI/ML and HPC workloads that RAID Inc. serves with its Xanadu X-AI Series and ARI-600 platforms, and is a frequent head-to-head competitor for AI training storage deals.
• Panasas: Panasas provides high-performance parallel storage (ActiveStor) for HPC and life sciences workloads, often using Lustre/PanFS. It directly competes with RAID Inc.'s Spectrum Scale, Lustre, and parallel file system storage offerings for research and enterprise HPC customers.
• Microway: Microway is a custom HPC and AI compute, storage, and cluster integrator that announced a formal partnership with RAID Inc. in 2018. It is one of the closest direct peers—similar size, similar custom HPC/AI solution model, and similar customer base in research, academia, and government.

Emerging players

• Pavilion Data Systems: Pavilion provides hyper-parallel flash storage platforms designed for AI/ML and large-scale analytics, with a similar focus on throughput and density. It is an emerging competitor in the same high-performance AI storage segment where RAID Inc.'s Xanadu X-AI and Fusion AI Servers compete.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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