Zaloni

Zaloni
Industry Computer Software, Big Data, Big Data Analytics
Founders Ben Sharma (CEO), Bijoy Bora (COO)
Headquarters Durham, NC, United States
Key people
 Ben Sharma, Scott Gidley, Kelly Schupp
Number of employees
 200
Website Zaloni.com

Zaloni, Inc. is a leading provider of data lake management software and solutions to the Fortune 1000 and throughout the world with its flagship product, the Zaloni Data Platform (ZDP).

Overview

Zaloni provides data management software and solutions for big data scale-out architectures, such as Apache Hadoop, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The company focuses on management of data lakes with their flagship product, the Zaloni Data Platform. They also offer additional add-ons for master data and data catalog. Zaloni is a privately owned, software, and services company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with offices in Guwahati, India and Dubai, UAE.

History

The company was founded in 2007 by Ben Sharma and Bijoy Bora as a data lake solutions company.[1] After 5 years of working within the industry, Zaloni released its first software product, the Bedrock Data Lake Management platform. In October 2015, the company released Mica, their first self-service data preparation platform.[2] Mica was listed in the Gartner Market Guide for Self-Service Data Preparation (August 25, 2016), showing very robust capabilities among products from over 36 products in self-service data preparation.[3] As of June 2018, the Bedrock and Mica products have merged to form the Zaloni Data Platform.[4]

Technology

The Zaloni Data Platform is created in such a way that it is storage agnostic. Whether the data is stored on-premises, cloud, multicloud, or hybrid, it can be ingested into the platform to be accessed by data users throughout the organization.

The Zaloni platform is based on a data lake architecture written by Ben Sharma. This architecture involves four zones that data travels through from ingestion to consumption. These zones are Transient Landing, Raw, Trusted, and Refined. Each provides different capabilities to the data consumer.

Funding

On March 7, 2016, Zaloni announced its Series A financing by Sierra Ventures & Baird Capital.[5][6] As part of the transaction, Mark Fernandes, Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, joined Zaloni’s Board of Directors. On May 2, 2018, Zaloni closed on $1.5M in debt offering.[7] The company has raised $7.5 million to date.[8]

Partnerships

On September 8, 2016, NetApp announced a partnership with Zaloni on a mid-tier storage solution for complete lifecycle management of the data lake.[9]

On October 20, 2016, Dell EMC announced a partnership with Zaloni to "to help drive Dell EMC’s big data vision with the availability of Analytic Insights Module (AIM)."[10]

On June 14 2017, ixtel announced a partnership with Zaloni to "deliver top-tier Big Data intelligence solutions more efficiently and cost-effectively than competitors in the region."[11]

On November 30, 2017, Esgyn announced a partnership with Zaloni to give "enterprises the tools they need to successfully deploy enterprise data lakes and realize the promised ROI of their data lake investment."[12]

Zaloni is also an Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure approved partner.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Company Overview of Zaloni Inc". Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Betsy Amy-Vogt (29 September 2015). "Exclusive: Zaloni launches Mica to automate "data wrangling" process". New York, NY. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Zaloni's Mica on the Radar". JGP.net. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Zaloni Data Platform 5.0 Sets New High Bar for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Data Lake Management and Governance". prnewswire.com. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Funding Snapshot: Data Lake Manager Zaloni Captures $7.5M Series A". 7 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  6. ↑ David Ranii (7 March 2016). "Durham startup Zaloni raises $7.5 million". News & Observer. Durham, NC. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  7. ↑ Allan Maurer. "Durham-based data lake management firm Zaloni lands $1.5M in debt offering". WRALtechwire.com. WRAL Techwire. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "Zaloni". VB Profiles. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Larry Dignan (8 September 2016). "NetApp launches mid-tier system for data lakes, partners with Zaloni". ZDNet. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Zaloni and Dell EMC collaborate for full-stack, best-in-breed big data solution". PRWeb. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  11. ↑ "US-based Zaloni signs strategic VAR partnership with ixtel". tahawul tech. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  12. ↑ "Esgyn Corporation and Zaloni Partner to Make Data Lakes More Powerful and Deliver Benefits Faster!". Esgyn. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  13. ↑ "Zaloni and AWS". Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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