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PernixData
Software company based in San Jose, California that was founded in 2012 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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).
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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 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]
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Products and competition
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]
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