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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15.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

Company Storage Cloud Storage Hybrid Cloud Data Management Enterprise Storage Azure Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 15.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

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

Azure StorSimple Management REST API

Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing StorSimple device managers, devices, volumes, backup policies, and jobs under the Microsoft.StorSimple resource provider. Retired (e...

Security Posture 2

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Storsimple Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Storsimple Domain Security

DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

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Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

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SDKs

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DomainSecurity

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Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Deprecation

Deprecation

Company 1

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Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: storsimple
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - url: http://www.storsimple.com/
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/azure/storage/files/storage-files-migration-storsimple-8000
      — a different registrable domain (storsimple.com -> microsoft.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03,
      roadmap#169)
  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: '0.23'
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

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