Acquired by Nutanix
Industries Enterprise SoftwareHardwareSoftwareVirtualizationHeadquarters Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Founded Date 2012 Founders Poojan Kumar, Satyam Vaghani Operating Status Closed Last Funding Type Series C Legal Name PernixData, Inc.
Company Type For Profit
Contact Email info@pernixdata.com Phone Number (855) 737-6493
PernixData is fundamentally changing how storage is designed and operated in virtual data centers. The company’s flagship product, PernixData FVP software, virtualizes server side flash and RAM to enable scale-out storage performance that is independent of capacity. No changes are required to VMs, servers or primary storage, ensuring maximum
performance of all virtualized applications in a seamless, scalable and cost- effective manner.
Based in San Jose, California, PernixData was founded by Poojan Kumar, a co-founder of Oracle Exadata, and Satyam Vaghani, VMware’s Storage CTO, creator of VMware's clustered file system (VMFS), and architect of several storage-related innovations at VMware over the last decade. PernixData is backed by Lightspeed Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and industry luminaries from enterprise software.
Transaction Name PernixData acquired by NutanixAcquired by NutanixAnnounced Date Aug 3, 2016