PernixData

PernixData
Private
Industry Storage virtualization
Founded 2012
Headquarters San Jose California
Key people
 Poojan Kumar, CEO
Satyam Vaghani, CTO
Products FVP
Website www.pernixdata.com

PernixData is a software company based in San Jose, California. PernixData was co-founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar and Satyam Vaghani. Its main product is PernixData FVP, which is software for virtualizing server-side flash memory[1] and Random Access Memory (RAM).

History

PernixData was co-founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar, CEO, and Satyam Vaghani, CTO.[2] Initial capital investment came from Lightspeed Venture Partners with individual investments from Mark Leslie, founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas; John Thomson, CEO of Virtual Instruments and Microsoft Board Member; and Lane Bess, Chief Operating Officer at Zscaler and former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. A second round of funding in May 2013 came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in addition to the original investors.[3] In August 2014, PernixData raised Series C financing, led by Menlo Ventures with contributions from all previous investors. Additional investments in that round were also made by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com; Jim Davidson, Co-Founder, Managing Partner and Managing Director at Silver Lake and Steve Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology. [4]

In August 2013, PernixData announced its flagship software product, PernixData FVP software. Version 2.0 of FVP was announced in August 2014, alongside various new editions of the product (Enterprise, Standard, VDI and Essentials Plus).[5] [6]

Products and competition

PernixData FVP virtualizes server-side flash memory and Random Access Memory (RAM), a software solution that enables IT administrators to scale storage performance independent of capacity.[7] PernixData FVP currently is only available for VMware's cloud computing platform vSphere 5, but Kumar has indicated that there are plans to ready FVP for various hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V.[8]

Competing VMware-focused flash virtualization technologies include SanDisk’s FlashSoft, Proximal Data's Autocache, and VMware's own vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC).[9][10] PernixData's FVP distinguishes itself from VMware's own vFRC solution by adding write caching and clustering.[11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Darrow, Barb (February 20, 2013). "PernixData comes out of stealth to attack server-side flash problem". Gigaom. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Geren, Tomio (February 20, 2013). "PernixData Aims To Break Virtualization And Storage Bottleneck". Forbes. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ Williams, Alex (May 14, 2013). "PernixData Raises $20M In Oversubscribed Round For New Way To Think About Storage". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ Basich, Zoran (August 20, 2014). "The Daily Startup: Marc Benioff Joins $35M Round for PernixData". WallStreetJournal. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ "PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software". ComputerWeeky. October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ Vizard, Mike (September 2, 2014). "PernixData Turns Memory in Unified Persistent Storage". ITBusinessEdge. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ Kovar, Joseph F. (August 5, 2013). "PernixData FVP Clusters Server Flash To Add Performance In Virtualized Environments". CRN Magazine. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ ter Harmsel, William (November 4, 2013). "Interview Poojan Kumar – CEO of PernixData". Willemterharmsel.nl. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  9. ↑ Lively flash market leaves Fusion-io standing on shaky ground — Tech News and Analysis
  10. ↑ Hey, how'd that guy get to be a BAZILLIONAIRE? A quick guide to the flashcache market
  11. ↑ PernixData shows off write-caching, clustering one-trick FVP pony. Can VMware kit do this? No. Well, not for now, anyway...

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