What Re-Store does

Re-Store is a privately held, IBM-exclusive high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider based in San Marcos, California, with a secondary office in Carlsbad. Founded in 2008 (as Taser Virtual Systems) and operating as IBM's only reseller 100% dedicated to HPC since 2008, the company resells IBM's HPC stack — including Storage Scale, FlashSystem, Spectrum LSF, watsonx, and Red Hat OpenShift — to enterprise and public-sector customers. Its customer base spans seven verticals: life sciences, automotive, finance and insurance, higher education, oil and gas, government, and electronic design automation, with marquee engagements including Ford's 9,000-node safety and AI cluster (8+ years), Caris Life Sciences (multi-cluster genomic analysis), and a global insurance claims platform (5 years uninterrupted uptime).

The company's product portfolio combines IBM hardware/software resale with three proprietary service and software layers: (1) HPC architecture, integration, and orchestration services; (2) AfterCare, a recurring managed-service offering in which Re-Store engineers continuously administer customer HPC environments; and (3) AutonomousHPC, a proprietary AI-driven telemetry, anomaly-detection, predictive-analytics, and workload-optimization platform that ingests structured telemetry and event log data across multi-vendor clusters. Revenue mechanics blend project-based hardware/software resale, professional services engagements, and ongoing AfterCare contracts, all delivered through a consultative direct-to-enterprise sales motion anchored by a 'Talk to an Expert' conversion path.

The business model is fundamentally a boutique expert reseller and managed-services provider rather than a software-as-a-service business. Headcount is 1–10, there are no disclosed funding rounds, and pricing is fully quote-based with no public tiers. The competitive position rests on exclusive IBM alignment, deep GPFS/Storage Scale specialization, regulatory expertise across HIPAA/FINRA/FIPS/NIST environments, and the AutonomousHPC software layer — which together create switching costs on long-tenured enterprise accounts but limit scalability given the sub-10-person organization.

Name

Re-Store

Legal name

Re-Store

Website

https://re-store.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Re-Store is a privately held, IBM-exclusive HPC solutions provider that resells IBM hardware and software, designs and integrates supercomputing environments, and operates AutonomousHPC — a proprietary AI-driven analytics platform — for Fortune 500s, national labs, and biotech leaders across seven verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

High-Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions & Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Wholesale-Computers & Peripheral Equipment & Software (5045), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

HPC-as-a-Product / On-Prem Managed HPC (Integrated Hardware + Ops) (HDACAOAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI/HPC Converged Systems (Hybrid Training/Simulation) (HDACAOAD), HPC Clusters & Scale-Out Compute (x86/ARM) (HDACAOAB), HPC System Software & Resource Management (Schedulers, MPI, OS Images) (HDACAOAH)

Keywords

• HPC solutions
• IBM hardware resale
• Supercomputing architecture
• Managed HPC services
• HPC analytics software

Headquarters

HQ city

San Marcos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. IBM HPC Hardware and Software Resale: Re-Store resells IBM's full portfolio of HPC hardware and software, including Storage Scale, Spectrum LSF, and Red Hat OpenShift, as an IBM reseller exclusively focused on HPC. Revenue is generated through hardware/software procurement contracts with enterprise customers.
2. AfterCare HPC Administration Services: Continuous, hands-on HPC managed services provided by virtual HPC Administrators. Covers product administration, data/workload management, environmental administration, ecosystem administration, system design administration, and optional end-user helpdesk. Delivered as an ongoing service contract.
3. HPC Architecture, Integration & Orchestration Services: Professional services for designing, building, and optimizing HPC environments. Includes needs analysis, custom architecture design, end-to-end implementation, integration, performance optimization, lifecycle planning, and risk mitigation. Shared responsibility for the entire lifecycle of the customer's HPC system.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Re-Store resells IBM's HPC hardware and software portfolio (FlashSystem, Storage Scale, Spectrum LSF, watsonx, Red Hat OpenShift) and delivers end-to-end services — needs analysis, custom architecture design, multi-vendor integration, performance optimization, and ongoing managed administration — for enterprise supercomputing environments. The portfolio is augmented by AutonomousHPC®, Re-Store's proprietary telemetry-driven analytics and automation platform that provides real-time root-cause analysis, predictive forecasting, and workload optimization across multi-vendor HPC clusters.

Product overview

Re-Store is an IBM-exclusive HPC solutions provider offering a unified portfolio combining IBM hardware resale with professional services and proprietary software. The core offering integrates IBM HPC infrastructure (FlashSystem storage, Storage Scale, Spectrum Scale) with Re-Store's AutonomousHPC analytics platform for monitoring and optimization. Additional services include HPC architecture, design, and build services for custom supercomputing environments, plus AfterCare managed services for ongoing HPC administration. The portfolio is unified around IBM technology with AutonomousHPC as the primary software product for intelligent HPC management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AutonomousHPC®: Data-driven, graphical analytics platform for HPC telemetry and event analysis, providing real-time root-cause analysis, trending, planning, and decision-making for supercomputing environments.

Products and services

• AutonomousHPC® Data-driven analytics and automation platform for HPC environments that collects and analyzes telemetry and event data to deliver real-time insights, trend forecasting, anomaly detection, and actionable recommendations for supercomputing optimization across multi-vendor clusters.
• HPC Architecture, Design & Build Services End-to-end professional services for designing, architecting, building, integrating, and optimizing IBM-powered supercomputing environments, including needs analysis, custom architecture design, multi-vendor system integration, performance optimization, and lifecycle planning.
• AfterCare Services Continuous, hands-on managed HPC administration service delivered by virtual HPC Administrators who handle product administration, data/workload management, environmental administration, ecosystem administration, system design administration, and optional end-user helpdesk for ongoing cluster operations.
• IBM HPC Hardware & Software Resale Exclusive resale of IBM's HPC hardware and software portfolio — including IBM FlashSystem storage, IBM Storage Scale, IBM Spectrum Scale, IBM Spectrum LSF Suite, IBM watsonx, and Red Hat OpenShift — as IBM's only reseller 100% dedicated to HPC solutions since 2008.

Named customers5 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IBMcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2008Re-Store has been IBM's exclusive business partner for architecting and operating HPC systems since 2008. Re-Store is described as IBM's 'trusted HPC partner', 'go-to partner', and 'exclusive Business Partner' for HPC. The partnership is centered on IBM Storage Scale (formerly GPFS), IBM FlashSystem, IBM watsonx, IBM Spectrum LSF, and Red Hat OpenShift. Re-Store is the only IBM reseller 100% dedicated to IBM HPC solutions.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IBM: The underlying technology vendor (Storage Scale, Spectrum LSF, watsonx, Red Hat OpenShift) and Re-Store's exclusive partner of 17+ years. Comparable as a broad HPC incumbent whose direct sales motion competes with and enables Re-Store's delivery channel.
• Atos / Eviden: European-led HPC systems and services provider (BullSequana, HPC managed services) operating broadly across the same enterprise, government, and research HPC market that Re-Store addresses, though at much greater scale and across geographies.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): Major HPC server, storage, and services vendor (HPE Cray, HPC solutions for life sciences, manufacturing, and government) competing for the same enterprise HPC budgets that Re-Store serves with its IBM stack.
• Dell Technologies: Large-scale HPC and AI infrastructure vendor (PowerEdge HPC, HPC NFS/Storage, ProDeploy) competing for on-prem cluster deals with a generalist, multi-vertical go-to-market that contrasts with Re-Store's focused IBM HPC specialty.

Direct peers

• Microway: Long-standing HPC systems integrator specializing in GPU-accelerated compute, storage, and HPC clusters for research, government, and AI use cases. Mirrors Re-Store's vertical-specific, expert-led, custom-build delivery model rather than transactional hardware resale.
• Exxact Corporation: Designs and integrates GPU/CPU server, storage, and cluster solutions for HPC and AI workloads across life sciences, research, and higher education. Comparable as a specialty HPC reseller/integrator targeting similar enterprise and lab buyers with bespoke configurations.
• Thinkmate: US-based HPC systems integrator and reseller building clusters using best-of-breed components (including Intel, NVIDIA, IBM) for AI, life sciences, and research workloads. Directly comparable to Re-Store as a custom HPC cluster builder and managed-service provider for enterprise and academic customers.
• Colfax International: HPC and AI cluster provider offering custom build, integration, and ongoing services for enterprise and research customers; comparable to Re-Store as a niche HPC systems house rather than a generalist IT reseller.
• Nor-Tech: US HPC cluster manufacturer and integrator serving government, higher education, oil & gas, life sciences, and manufacturing with custom clusters and managed services; closely analogous to Re-Store's verticalized, consultative HPC delivery.
• Penguin Computing (SMG): HPC cluster, storage, and managed services provider acquired by SMART Global Holdings; delivers end-to-end enterprise HPC and AI factories with a services-and-software overlay comparable to Re-Store's Architect/Build/AutonomousHPC stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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