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).
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]
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]
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).
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]
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]