PernixData
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Storage virtualization |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | San Jose California |
Key people | Poojan Kumar, CEO Satyam Vaghani, CTO |
| Products | FVP Architect |
| Parent | Nutanix |
| Website | www |
PernixData was a software company based in San Jose, California. PernixData was founded in 2012, and acquired in 2016. Its main product is PernixData FVP, which is software for virtualizing server-side flash memory[1] and random-access memory (RAM).
History
[edit]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 and the original investors.[3] In August 2014, PernixData raised Series C financing, led by Menlo Ventures with contributions from previous investors. Investments in that round were also made by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce; Jim Davidson, of Silver Lake Partners and Steve Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology.[4]
In August 2013, PernixData announced its FVP software product. In July, 2016, there were reports of potential sale of the company.[5][6] PernixData was acquired by Nutanix in August, 2016.[7]
Products and competition
[edit]PernixData FVP virtualizes server-side flash memory and random-access memory (RAM), software intended to scale storage performance independent of capacity.[8] In 2013, PernixData FVP was only available for VMware's cloud computing platform vSphere 5, but Kumar indicated plans to ready FVP for various hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V.[9] Version 2.0 of FVP was announced in August 2014, alongside various new editions of the product (Enterprise, Standard, VDI and Essentials Plus).[10][11]
Competing VMware-focused flash virtualization technologies include Virtunet Systems' VirtuCache,[12] SanDisk’s FlashSoft, Proximal Data's Autocache, and VMware's own vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC).[13] PernixData's FVP and Virtunet Systems' VirtuCache distinguish themselves from VMware's own vFRC by adding write caching and clustering.[14] [15]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Darrow, Barb (February 20, 2013). "PernixData comes out of stealth to attack server-side flash problem". Gigaom. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ Geren, Tomio (February 20, 2013). "PernixData Aims To Break Virtualization And Storage Bottleneck". Forbes. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
- ^ Williams, Alex (May 14, 2013). "PernixData Raises $20M In Oversubscribed Round For New Way To Think About Storage". TechCrunch. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
- ^ Basich, Zoran (August 20, 2014). "The Daily Startup: Marc Benioff Joins $35M Round for PernixData". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
- ^ Chris Mellor (July 1, 2016), "Sources: Nutanix poised to gobble PernixData: Hyper-converged upstart eyes up hypervisor flash caching biz", The Register, retrieved August 29, 2016
- ^ Marc Farley and Lauren Malhoit (July 4, 2016). "Independence no more? Will Nutanix acquire PernixData". Vuncalcast. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ Heather Somerville (August 28, 2016). "Nutanix acquires two startups amid IPO delay". Yahoo! Tech.
- ^ Joseph F. Kovar (August 5, 2013). "PernixData FVP Clusters Server Flash To Add Performance In Virtualized Environments". CRN Magazine. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
- ^ ter Harmsel, William (November 4, 2013). "Interview Poojan Kumar – CEO of PernixData". Willemterharmsel.nl. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
- ^ "PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software". ComputerWeeky. October 1, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ^ Vizard, Mike (September 2, 2014). "PernixData Turns Memory in Unified Persistent Storage". ITBusinessEdge. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
- ^ "Home". virtunetsystems.com.
- ^ Lively flash market leaves Fusion-io standing on shaky ground — Tech News and Analysis
- ^ Chris Mellor (October 16, 2013). "PernixData shows off write-caching, clustering one-trick FVP pony. Can VMware kit do this? No. Well, not for now, anyway..." The Register. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
- ^ "PernixData's FVP vs. Virtunet - Both VMware Kernel Write Caching Software".