IntelliFlash is a brand of DataDirect Networks (DDN) based in San Jose that manufactures flash storage arrays. The company, then known as Tegile Systems, was acquired by Western Digital in 2017[1] and by DDN in September 2019.[2]

History

Tegile Systems was founded in 2010 by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Justin Cheen, and Alok Agrawal.[3] In February 2012, Tegile came out of stealth mode when it announced a product line called Zebi.[4]

In 2013, a $32 million investment led by Meritech Capital Partners,[5] which included a corporate venture capital investment led by Alex Lam from SanDisk Ventures. In May 2015, a round of $70 million was announced, with additional investors Capricorn Investment Group, Cross Creek Advisors and Pine River Capital Management.[6]

By the end of 2015, Tegile had an estimated 360 employees.[7] In 2017 Western Digital bought Tegile Systems[1] and then rebranded it as IntelliFlash.[8] Western Digital sold IntelliFlash to DDN in September 2019.[9]

Technology

Tegile developed what the company calls IntelliFlash Metadata Acceleration, which is a way to store metadata on high speed solid state disks, apart from the underlying data.[10] Some competitors are noted as Nimble Storage and Tintri.[4][11]

References

  1. ^ a b Darrow, Barb (August 29, 2017). "Western Digital Is Buying This Flash Storage Company". Fortune Media IP Limited. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. ^ Sumrit, Sharon (19 September 2019). "DDN announces acquisition of intelliflash enterprise storage business unit from Western Digital". FWalt & Company, on behalf of DDN. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. ^ Halfacree, Gareth (20 September 2019). "Western Digital flogs IntelliFlash, exits storage systems market". Bit-tech. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  4. ^ a b Chris Mellor (June 1, 2012). "Newcomer gets out its box, plans to sell it cheaply to all comers: I swing all ways, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, CIFS, long time". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  5. ^ Chris Mellor (August 6, 2013). "Backers fatten up flash-disk mutant array, sic it on storage giants". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  6. ^ Chris Mellor (May 27, 2015). "Tegile scores VC cash to splash on flash growth dash: Mutant bods join the $100m-plus startup club". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  7. ^ Chris Mellor (December 22, 2015). "Tegile: Tesla, T4000 and playing the long game on cheap data storage". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  8. ^ "Tintri saviour to acquire former Tegile business". CRN. 23 September 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  9. ^ Mellor, Chris (20 September 2019). "Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems". The Register. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  10. ^ Chris Naddeo (November 11, 2014). "One Storage Stack to Rule Them All". Promotional blog posting. Strategic Storage Solutions. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  11. ^ George Crump (November 13, 2012). "VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage". Blog. Storage Switzerland. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
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