Storage News

Enterprise SSD Hardware Startup Raises $15M

Gigaom reports that high-performance SSD storage provider Kaminario has raised a $15 million C round of financing. Current investors Sequoia Capital and Pitango Venture Capital were joined by new investor Globespan Capital Partners and Leumi, the largest financial institution in Israel. Author Stacey Higginbotham asks the question ‘with all these startups trying to sell some version of better, faster, cheaper SSDs into the enterprise, who’s likely to pick up the technology?’.

"Because Violin and Kaminario both sell storage appliances they may be a better fit for storage vendors who get a complete product line, whereas Pliant and Fusion-io are more in the component space and may be a better product for storage or server vendors. Anobit, because it offers a way to boost the performance of a cheaper type of Flash memory could be a good fit with an actual memory maker such as Samsung or Intel.”