PernixData
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Storage virtualization |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | San Jose California |
Key people | Poojan Kumar, CEO Satyam Vaghani, CTO |
| Products | FVP Architect |
| Parent | Nutanix |
| Website | www |
PernixData was a software company based in San Jose, California. PernixData was founded in 2012, and acquired in 2016. Its main product is PernixData FVP, which is software for virtualizing server-side flash memory[1] and random-access memory (RAM).
PernixData was co-founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar, CEO, and Satyam Vaghani, CTO.[2] Initial capital investment came from Lightspeed Venture Partners with individual investments from Mark Leslie, founding chairman and CEO of Veritas; John Thomson, CEO of Virtual Instruments and Microsoft Board Member; and Lane Bess, chief operating officer at Zscaler and former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. A second round of funding in May 2013 came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the original investors.[3] In August 2014, PernixData raised Series C financing, led by Menlo Ventures with contributions from previous investors. Investments in that round were also made by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce; Jim Davidson, of Silver Lake Partners and Steve Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology.[4]
In August 2013, PernixData announced its FVP software product. In July, 2016, there were reports of potential sale of the company.[5][6] PernixData was acquired by Nutanix in August, 2016.[7]