The Washington data center is up and running, he says, adding that Steek is already in discussions with American ISPs, as well as looking for U.S. staff. We need to establish a sales office and/or find a partner in the U.S.
The vendor is also looking to extend its reach beyond ISPs into the mobile phone market.
Today, we mainly focus on the storing data from PCs via the Web, but were expanding our focus to include phone data, says Gobet, adding that Steek stores data for 15 ISPs at its two French data centers. The exec would not say how many Pbytes of data it handles, although he did confirm that Steek stores data from some 1.5 million ISP customers.
Steek currently has around 40 employees, although the vendor is looking to add 10 to 20 people to its workforce over the next 12 months, some of whom will be based in the U.S. We need commercial and pre-sales people, explains Gobet.
Such is the extent of the company's American ambitions, Steek even changed its name from Agematis last year. It was a bad name to go into the U.S. with, to be honest, says Gobet. It was a difficult name to remember and spell.
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