Infinidat
Infinidat is an Israeli-American data storage company.
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Private | |
Industry | Data storage |
Founded | 2011[1] |
Founder | Moshe Yanai |
Headquarters | Waltham, MA Herzliya, Israel |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Moshe Yanai (CEO) Brian Carmody(CTO) Nir Simon(CFO) |
Website | www |
History
Infinidat was founded by Moshe Yanai[2][3] in 2011.[4] By 2015 it was valued at $1.2 billion,[2] and in 2017 it was valued at $1.6 billion.[5] The company has offices in 17 countries and two headquarters: one in Waltham, MA and one in Herzliya, Israel.[6]
InfiniBox
In 2013 the company filed for thirty-nine patents,[3] and later that year released its flagship product, the InfiniBox. Each system initially managed about five petabytes of data.[5]
As of October 2017, the company had shipped about two exabytes worth of storage to its customers.[7][8] The company uses conventional and flash storage, and has a better than one million IOPS performance and 99.99999 percent reliability.[9] The product is used by large corporations and clients including cloud service providers, telecoms, financial services firms, healthcare providers, and others that require large amounts of data storage.[10]
Funding
In 2015 the company received $150 million in funding during its Series B round led by TPG Growth.[11]
In 2017, the company received $95 million in funding,[5] in a Series C round led by Goldman Sachs. At this stage it had received $325 million in total funding.[6]
References
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/09/11/5-rules-for-practicing-disruptive-innovation-while-staying-on-top-of-big-data-waves/#79f8afed47fe
- Press, Gil. "5 Rules For Practicing Disruptive Innovation While Staying On Top Of Big Data Waves". Forbes Magazine.
- "Infinidat quietly files THIRTY-NINE patents. Let's take a closer look". The Register.
- Harris, Robin. "Infinidat shakes up enterprise storage market - ZDNet". ZD Net.
- Rubin, Eliran (4 October 2017). "Israeli-U.S. Data-storage Startup Infinidat Raises $95 Million". Haaretz.
- "Goldman Sachs targets $40bn storage world with multi-million Dollar investment into Infinidat". Data Economy. 4 October 2017.
- "OpenIO Secures $5 Million in VC Funding". www.datamation.com. Datamation.
- "Infinidat to flog Brocade storage networking gear". The Register.
- Barker, Colin. "Infinidat looks at how storage can evolve to work with the cloud - ZDNet". ZD Net.
- "Data Storage Startup Raises $95 Million, Making it Israel's Latest High-Tech "Unicorn"". The Tower.
- "Infinidat Worth $1.6 billion after Goldman Sachs Investment". Boston Business Journal. October 3, 2017.