Excelero Storage has created a software-defined block storage solution that meets the performance and scalability requirements of large web-scale and enterprise applications. With Excelero's NVMesh, customers can build a distributed, high-performance server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash with the convenience of centralized storage, while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage total cost of ownership. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale industrial IoT services, machine-learning applications, and massive-scale simulation visualization. Excelero was named a 2018 Cool Vendor in Storage Technologies by the Gartner Research Group.