StorSimple

StorSimple was a Santa Clara, California hybrid cloud storage company founded in 2009 by Ursheet Parikh and Guru Pangal. Its appliances combined primary storage, tiered cloud archiving, deduplication, compression, and encryption behind iSCSI/SMB interfaces, backed by $31.5M from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield Fund. Microsoft acquired StorSimple in November 2012 and folded it into Azure as Azure StorSimple (8000 series physical and virtual arrays, plus the StorSimple Data Manager). The product is managed through Azure Resource Manager under the Microsoft.StorSimple resource provider and its REST API. Azure StorSimple reached end-of-life in December 2022 and is out of support; Microsoft directs customers to Azure File Sync and Azure Files.

StorSimple publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Storage, Cloud Storage, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Management.

StorSimple’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, and 6 more developer resources.

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14.6/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

CompanyStorageCloud StorageHybrid CloudData ManagementEnterprise StorageAzureAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 14.6/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

Deprecation

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: storsimple
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/storsimple.png
name: StorSimple
description: StorSimple was a Santa Clara, California hybrid cloud storage company founded in 2009 by Ursheet Parikh and Guru
  Pangal. Its appliances combined primary storage, tiered cloud archiving, deduplication, compression, and encryption behind
  iSCSI/SMB interfaces, backed by $31.5M from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Mayfield Fund. Microsoft
  acquired StorSimple in November 2012 and folded it into Azure as Azure StorSimple (8000 series physical and virtual arrays,
  plus the StorSimple Data Manager). The product is managed through Azure Resource Manager under the Microsoft.StorSimple
  resource provider and its REST API. Azure StorSimple reached end-of-life in December 2022 and is out of support; Microsoft
  directs customers to Azure File Sync and Azure Files.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/storsimple/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
- redpoint-ventures
- index-ventures
- ignition-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: microsoft
x-acquired-date: '2012-11-15'
x-lifecycle: end-of-life
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Storage
- Cloud Storage
- Hybrid Cloud
- Data Management
- Enterprise Storage
- Azure
- Acquired
apis:
- name: Azure StorSimple Management REST API
  description: Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing StorSimple device managers, devices, volumes, backup policies,
    and jobs under the Microsoft.StorSimple resource provider. Retired (end-of-life December 2022).
  humanURL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storsimple/
  baseURL: https://management.azure.com
  tags:
  - Storage
  - Azure
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/storsimple-authentication.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/storsimple-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/storsimple-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/storsimple-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/storsimple-packages.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/storsimple-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/storsimple-lifecycle.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storsimple/
- type: Website
  url: http://www.storsimple.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1

StorSimple

Kin Score

APIs 1

Azure StorSimple Management REST API

Security Posture 2

Storsimple Authentication

Storsimple Domain Security

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