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Silk
Company typePrivate
Founded2008; 17 years ago (2008)
Headquarters
Needham, Massachusetts
,
United States
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]

Products

The Silk Platform is a virtualized 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 the cloud resources being used.

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. 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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