# StorSimple

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/storsimple/  
**Website:** http://www.storsimple.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 13.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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 (2)

- **Storsimple Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **Storsimple Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/storsimple/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.