Elastifile up $ 35 million in Series B round of financing led by six data centers and storage industry leaders
Elastifile, an all-flash, defined by software provider storage solutions for enterprise and across the Web environments, announced its series B financing of $ 35 million. Six data centers and server industry leaders have joined the Series A investor Battery Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, strategic investors in the second round, although the names of these investment companies were not disclosed.
"The exponential growth of unstructured data presents unique challenges to actively processing enterprises data collected from an ever wider range of sources," said David Gussarsky, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners . "The innovative approach Elastifile management of unstructured data in a scale-out, optimized flash solution opens the door to cost-effectively deploy business critical applications requiring large scale flash resources."
the software only, all-flash storage object file system and block web-scale solution is hardware agnostic and hypervisor. Its unique technology broadens the use of software-defined storage beyond the backend for virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure with the addition of enterprise-class NAS file services as virtualized and object protocols, enabling any enterprise or web-scale application (including the bases SQL data, big data, etc.) to mount directly from the workload for shared storage.
"a cost-effective distributed file on the flash solution was a market need by pressing" said Itzik Parnafes, General Partner, Battery Ventures . "Unique and revolutionary design Elastifile present its customers with the first all-flash scalable system providing file, block and object storage for applications to the backbone of operations daily data centers."
The solution Elastifile would scale to thousands of nodes and enable customers to significantly expand the number of applications they can deploy the flash by providing multi-protocol storage services on the flash at a lower price than many hybrids and hard drive-based networks, while using their choice of equipment.
"We are pleased to have leaders join Elastifile industry as strategic investors, bringing the total investment in the company to nearly $ 44 million," said Elastifile co-founder and CEO Amir Aharoni . "This additional funding will allow us to aggressively market our unique solution, enabling enterprises to transform the wealth of information collected in the form of structured and unstructured data into business knowledge to action."