StorSimple was a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California, marketing cloud storage.

[5] The appliance had an iSCSI interface using 10 Gigabit Ethernet and used serial ATA disks as well as solid-state drives.

[9] After acquisition, Microsoft integrated StorSimple into its Azure product suite and refreshed the hardware, launching the 8100 and 8600 on-premise fixed-configuration storage arrays in 2014.

[10] Like their predecessors, the appliances combined solid state and standard disk drives.

[11] A virtualised version of the platform, running on a virtual machine in the Azure cloud, was initially marketed as the 1100 then re-branded as the 8010.