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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles StorSimple the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — StorSimple scores 14.6/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile StorSimple
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for StorSimple. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 1
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
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
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for StorSimple — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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