Kaminario

Private
Headquarters Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Dani Golan, Founder and CEO
Products All solid-state SAN storage
Website www.kaminario.com

Kaminario is a Newton, Massachusetts-based all-flash enterprise storage company[1] founded in 2008. Kaminario manufactures the Kaminario K2 line of solid state SAN storage solutions.[2][3][4] The company has offices in Boston, Israel, New York City and Silicon Valley.

Company History

Dani Golan[5] founded Kaminario in 2008 and currently serves as its CEO. Golan is a former EMC and Performix executive. He holds a MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology. Several members of Kaminario’s leadership team joined the company from other corporations in the storage industry, including EMC, IBM and Unisys.

Products & Services

In May 2014, Kaminario introduced[6] the fifth generation of its K2 all-flash data storage array, based on an x86 processor platform. Kaminario’s K2 is built on the company’s Scale-Out Performance and Resilience Architecture (SPEAR[7]). Earlier K2 models offered a scale-out architecture in which both capacity and performance could be increased. The K2 v5 added[8] a scale-up architecture allowing an individual node’s flash storage capacity to be increased with the addition of extra SSDs. K2 v5’s enterprise storage features include deduplication and compression, encryption, non-disruptive upgrades, GUI-based management, snapshots, thin provisioning and resiliency. K2 v5 supports workloads in the server virtualization, VDI and database (OLTP, real-time analytics) environments.

In April 2013, Kaminario launched[9] K2 v4 with SPEAR architecture and scale-out capability. The K2 v4 all-flash array included snapshots, non-disruptive upgrades, support for VAAI[10] and choice of iSCSI and Fibre Channel connections.

Kaminario’s first commercial release[11] of its K2 flash storage array was in June 2010. The first version was an SSD SAN storage array that provided millions of IOPS for database applications.[4][12][13]

Investors

As of February 2015, Kaminario has received $143 million [14] in total venture capital funding. The first round came in May 2011 with $15 million in Series C[15] funding from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital and Pitango Venture Capital. Kaminario received $25 million in series D[15] funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital and Pitango Venture Capital. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a Series E[16] round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Sequoia Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Tenaya Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment and Globespan Capital. Kaminario is backed [17] by Sequoia Capital, Pitango Venture Capital, Tenaya Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment and Globespan Capital.

Awards & Recognitions

In November 2011, Kaminario was named as a finalist[18] for “Storage Networking Product of the Year” at the SVC Awards,[19] sponsored by Angel Business Communications Ltd,[20] publishers of Storage Networking Solutions UK[21] (SNS UK) and SNS Europe.[22]

In January 2012, Kaminario was named as a finalist[23] in Storage Magazine[24]’s and SearchStorage.com[25]’s Products of the Year Competition for 2011, backed by TechTarget.

In July 2012, the company announced[26] audited SPC-1 results of 1,219,973.91 IOPS at $.40 per SPC-1 IOPS. Kaminario broke[27] the Storage Performance Council[28]’s SPC-1 World Record for sustained storage performance in October 2013 for the second year in a row, with its fourth-generation K2 (K2 v4) array performing at 1,239,898.00 SPC-1 IOPS. K2 v4 was also able to provide the two best SPC-1 price-performance results out of the top five at $0.80/SPC-1 IOPS.

In November 2013, Kaminario broke the Storage Performance Council’s SPC-2 MBPS world record[29] for processing throughput and SPC-2 price performance, with its fourth-generation K2 (K2 v4) array performing at an average data throughput of 33,477.03 SPC-2 MBPS [A].

In August 2014, Kaminario’s v5 K2 all-flash array was awarded[30] Best of Show for ‘Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology’ at the Flash Memory Summit.

In November 2014, Kaminario achieved[31] the highest SPC-1 benchmark by that date with a world-record 1.239 million IOPS.

Customers & Partners

Kaminario's customers operate across many industries. Some of Kaminario’s customers include Allant Group, Clearwater Analytics, Taboola, PetMeds and Intigua among others. The company also has clients in the global financial services sector. Their products also serve digital media companies, telecommunications firms and government agencies. In February 2015, Kaminario announced[32] a new partnership program called ACCELERATE. At the time of the announcement, ACCELERATE had over 70 active partners[33] in North America with plans to expand to the program to Europe Middle East Africa (EMEA)

References

  1. ↑ Kovar, Joseph (May 20, 2014). "Kaminario Brings Enterprise-Class Software, Scale-Up To Flash Storage Arrays". Retrieved 3 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Higginbotham, Stacey (2 May 2011). "Another SSD Hardware Startup Gets Cash. When’s the Shakeout?". GigaOM. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Huang, Gregory T. (2 May 2011). "Kaminario Collects $15M for Storage Grid". Xconomy. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Mellor, Chris (14 June 2010). "Kaminario climbs performance mountain; K2 DRAM grid-in-a-box". The Register. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=132913274&privcapId=83343411
  6. ↑ http://www.infostor.com/san/kaminario-eyes-midrange-market-with-5th-gen-flash-arrays.html
  7. ↑ http://www.zdnet.com/article/kaminario-releases-the-fourth-generation-of-k2-flash-storage-systems/
  8. ↑ http://www.storagereview.com/kaminario_announces_k2_v5_allflash_primary_storage_arrays
  9. ↑ http://www.storagereview.com/kaminario_announces_k2_version_4_with_all_flash
  10. ↑ http://searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com/definition/vStorage-APIs-for-Array-Integration-VAAI
  11. ↑ http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/feature/Sizing-up-storage-performance-analysis-options
  12. ↑ Higginbotham, Stacey (15 June 2010). "Like Our Data, Storage Startups Are Multiplying". GigaOM. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  13. ↑ Marks, Howard (15 September 2011). "Purpose-Built Or Off-The-Shelf Hardware: A Tale Of Two Systems". Network Computing. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  14. ↑ http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2015/01/newton-storage-firm-kaminario-raises-another-15m.html
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kaminario
  16. ↑ http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/01/22/68m-round-puts-kaminario-back-in-the-flash-data-storage-mix/
  17. ↑ http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/02/kaminario-funding/
  18. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/21/idUS132794+21-Nov-2011+BW20111121
  19. ↑ http://www.svcawards.com/
  20. ↑ http://www.angelbc.com/home
  21. ↑ http://www.snsuk.info/
  22. ↑ http://snseurope.info/home
  23. ↑ http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/Data-storage-2011-Products-of-the-Year-finalists
  24. ↑ http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/ezine/Storage-magazine
  25. ↑ http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/
  26. ↑ http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-1/Kaminario/%20A00118_Kaminario_K2-D/a00118_Kaminario_K2-D_SPC-1_executive-summary.pdf
  27. ↑ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_active/#a00137
  28. ↑ http://www.storageperformance.org/home/
  29. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/kaminario_cleans_up_on_spc_with_screaming_streamer/
  30. ↑ http://www.flashmemorysummit.com/English/Conference/BOS_winners.html
  31. ↑ http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_top-ten
  32. ↑ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/10/kaminario_channel_embiggenment/
  33. ↑ http://www.channelinsider.com/tech-companies/kaminario-launches-formal-channel-progam.html

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