Congratulations to Poojan Kumar, Satyam Vaghani and the rest of the PernixData team for raising a great Series B round led by Kleiner Perkins.
At Lightspeed, we are very proud of what the team has achieved in short 15 months…
PernixData introduces a software-defined “Flash Virtualization Platform” that aggregates and virtualizes flash storage distributed across servers into a scale-out data tier for enterprise data centers to provide low cost, deterministic high performance to any out-of-box application.
The enterprise …
Over the past two years we’ve seen a lot of disruption in the enterprise storage market with everything from the game-changing performance of flash to next-generation storage architectures required to support the cloud and virtualized data center environments
And notwithstanding …
The Nutanix team (ex-Googlers, VMWare, and Asterdata alums) have been quietly working to create the world’s first high-performance appliance that enables IT to deploy a complete data center environment (compute, storage, network) from a single 2U appliance.
The platform also …
We continue to be very enthusiastic about the tremendous amount of opportunity in the Enterprise Infrastructure sector for 2011. In the past few years, we’ve seen significant innovation in technologies such as virtualization, flash memory and distributed databases and applications. …
Ten years ago, the term virtualization was rarely uttered in an enterprise data center. Today, it’s part of the daily vocabulary. Server virtualization has changed the datacenter forever, shifting the proverbial IT bottleneck from computers to storage. There’s hardly an …
by Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venuter Partners
Lightspeed has invested across multiple enterprise infrastructure areas including database virtualization (Delphix), datacenter and cloud infrastructure (AppDynamics, Mulesoft, Optier) and storage virtualization (Fusion I/O, Pliant, Nimble).
This year we wanted to profile several important …
Barry Eggers and I teamed up again this year to make a few predictions about major trends to watch out for in Enterprise Infrastructure in 2009. But before we get into what we’re seeing in our crystal balls, we thought
…Following up on our consumer internet and mobile predictions, my partner Barry Eggers looks into the crystal ball for 2008 to draw some predictions about enterprise infrastructure:
1. Flash-based storage makes a move towards the datacenter. The last bastion …
