Virident Systems

Virident Systems is a computer systems company headquartered in Milpitas, California, that designs and builds computer data storage products. The company was founded in June 2006 and initially received funding from Artiman Ventures, Accel India and Spansion Inc.^[2]

Virident Systems

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Solid State Storage
Founded	2006
Founder	Kumar Ganapathy, Vijay Karamcheti and Raj Parekh
Headquarters	Milpitas, California , U.S.
Number of locations	2
Products	FlashMAX tachIOn
Number of employees	60 (May 2011)[1]
Parent	Western Digital
Website	www.virident.com

In September 2013, Western Digital announced a merger agreement where Virident will be acquired by HGST, in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital.^[3]

Products

Virident's first NAND flash based product, tachIOn, was announced in June 2010.^[4] The tachIOn products are PCIe cards that use field-replaceable modules containing single-level cell (SLC) flash components from, for example, Micron Technology, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba. They support inbuilt RAID and error correction features.

Virident Systems was chosen as a winner of TiE50 award in May 2011^[1] and a winner of the Red Herring Top 100 North America award in June 2011.^[5]