The San Diego Business Journal announced ScaleMatrix to be the fourth fastest growing company in San Diego for 2015. We’ve interviewed Co-founder and CSMO (Chief Sales and Marketing Officer) Chris Orlando to get the inside scoop on ScaleMatrix and its journey to becoming the fourth fastest growing company in America’s eighth largest city; from both Founders’ competitive beginnings 15 years ago, to the technology innovations and partnerships that made ScaleMatrix who they are today:
“A long time ago, Mark and I were offered the same job at a small start-up company. They weren’t expecting the both of us to say yes, but we did. The business couldn’t afford us both, so they said, ‘you can both start, and we will keep whichever of you works out. We both should have walked away – but we didn’t. Luckily, both of our divisions became very successful and Mark and I became great friends. We realized our skill sets compliment one another’s well, and we’ve been running businesses together ever since,” remembered Chris.
After decades of experience with data centers, Mark envisioned a new way of delivering and managing data center resources; and thus, the Dynamic Density Control™ cabinet was born.
“The traditional method of using hot aisles and cold aisles to manage thermal abatement in data centers is inefficient, so we’ve encapsulated the cabinets, equipping them with a close looped chilled water system for localized heat exchange in order to drive out many of the inefficiencies in the old data center model,” explains Chris. “The DDC [Dynamic Density Control™] platform provides us with a number of key benefits; better energy efficiency - nearly 30% better traditional data centers, increased density - from a national average of 7KW up to 45KW, and improved security. Traditional exposed racks leave too much opportunity for security breaches. Our closed racks and biometric security system provide customers a much more rigid security profile and better control.”
Shortly after operations began, ScaleMatrix started attracting the attention of some big players in the industry:
“ScaleMatrix spent millions building a large public cloud for an educational institution in 2011. During that project, we forged a strategic relationship with the team at Dell, and began using their hardware as the primary compute nodes for all of our cloud services nationwide. Eventually, Dell leadership toured one of our facilities and realized that capabilities we’ve developed around security and density were unlike anything they’d seen before, and we were quickly drafted into the Dell partnership program,” recalled Chris.
ScaleMatrix became one of Dell’s five go to market partners for cloud services in North America, providing private cloud, public multi-tenant cloud, business continuity, and disaster recovery services to Dell’s client.
ScaleMatrix evolved from a private cloud services company in 2011 to the broad based hybrid services provider you see today offering a full services catalogue; cloud, managed services, colocation, data protection, and connectivity services. With a talented and experienced team, and an impressive partnership dossier, ScaleMatrix is working hard to ensure their position on next year’s Fast100 list.
