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Silk
Company typePrivate
Founded2008; 17 years ago (2008)
Headquarters
Needham, Massachusetts
,
USA
Key people
Dani Golan (Founder, CEO)
Guy Tanchuma (CFO)
Itay Shoshani (COO)
Derek Swanson (CTO)
ProductsSilk Platform
Websitewww.silk.us

Silk is a technology company headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, United States. Silk offers a cloud platform for enterprise customers with mission-critical applications. The company has offices in Boston and Israel.

History

CEO, Dani Golan, founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning, the company was a flash storage start-up.

The company’s first venture capital funding round was announced in May 2011 with $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Pitango Venture Capital.[1] Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from Tenaya Capital and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors.[2][3][4]

In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with TechData [5] to offer customers inexpensive hardware to run their storage software on.

In 2020, the company rebranded itself as Silk [6] to reflect its continued evolution to the cloud. As Silk -- a name that reflects the company’s flexible, durable, yet elegant and easy-to-use and manage platform – the company now focuses on helping customers migrate mission-critical workloads and databases to the cloud while giving them high performance.

Products

The Silk Platform is a data layer that sits between customers’ cloud infrastructure and databases/workloads. The Silk Platform decouples data from the cloud infrastructure, so workloads can be moved from one cloud vendor to another, to the private cloud, or to on-premises. Silk’s Tier 1 data services include zero-footprint clones, data replication, deduplication, and thin provisioning to minimize how much cloud resources are being used. In turn, this can help reduce cloud costs.

The Silk Platform is built on auto-scalable and symmetric active-active architecture that delivers performance across any workload profile, leveraging cloud native IaaS components. With the Silk Clarity capability, the platform uses machine-learning analytics to optimize resources, while Silk Flex makes it possible to orchestrate and automate data management.

References

  1. ^ Gregory T. Huang (May 2, 2011). "Kaminario Collects $15M for Storage Grid". Xconomy. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. ^ Jordan Novet (December 2, 2014). "With this $53M, flash storage startup Kaminario will keep challenging incumbents". Venture Beat. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  3. ^ "Newton storage firm Kaminario raises another $15M, bringing total funding to $143M". Boston Business Journal. January 22, 2015. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  4. ^ Michael Davidson (January 22, 2015). "$68M Round Puts Kaminario Back in the Flash Data Storage Mix". Xconomy. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  5. ^ Todd R. Weiss (July 1, 2019). "Kaminario Delivers Storage as a Service Through Tech Data Deal". Channel Partners.
  6. ^ "Kaminario Announces Company Name Change to Silk". Business Insider. July 6, 2020.
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