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June 21, 2012

Kaminario Gets $25M in Funding

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez, TMCnet Contributor

Kaminario, one of the largest providers of solid state storage area network (SAN) products, just announced that it got its hands on $25 million in funding. This puts the company's funding figures at around $65 million. Companies investing in Kaminario include Globespan Capital Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital (News - Alert) Growth Equity, Sequoia Capital, and Tenaya Capital.



Kaminario intends to use the funding to push its success further and sell its products to a larger consumer base. One of its goals within this spectrum is to increase the storage capacity of its K2 enterprise product. The K2 is a scalable end-to-end storage solution that has the capability of "healing" itself in case of data corruption. The solution also includes state-of-the-art high-traffic data security measures that will ensure smooth operations for companies that rely heavily on their data.

Kaminario's CEO, Dani Golan, said, "Kaminario is leading the revolution in SSD storage that is storming the data center. This is the largest change in data center technology since virtualization and is causing legacy vendors to race to catch up. Kaminario has the only SSD scale-out storage architecture on the market today - the only possible architecture to deliver on the full capabilities of SSD storage."

The K2 isn't a new solution. It's been around for over two years. Kaminario introduced the K2 as a solution for SAN storage that utilizes SSD technology. What makes the K2 special, however, is the fact that it's the first solution tailored to enterprise use that uses pure SSD relays. Other solutions still had electro-mechanical hard disk drives implemented in them, which could be a bit sluggish. Moreover, the K2's got something that adds some spice to this elegant pillar of speed: DataProtect, an end-to-end self-healing feature that gives corporations the safest medium in which to store their troves of data.

Sequoia Capital's managing partner, Haim Sadger, said, "Kaminario has achieved tremendous growth in the market and proven its storage innovation in numerous customer engagements in which application responsiveness and data reliability were essential to business success. We are convinced that Kaminario will be a major force in the enterprise storage market in the future."

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Edited by Rich Steeves
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