improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . march 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message a major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject . it may require cleanup to comply with wikipedia s content policies particularly neutral point of view . please discuss further on the talk page . march 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message type private headquarters needham massachusetts usa area served worldwide key people dani golan founder and ceo products all solid state san storage website www.kaminario.com kaminario is a needham massachusetts based all flash enterprise storage company 1 founded in 2008 . kaminario manufactures the kaminario k2 line of solid state san storage solutions . 2 3 4 the company has offices in boston israel new york city and silicon valley . contents 1 company history 2 products & services 3 investors 4 awards & recognitions 5 customers & partners 6 references 7 external links company history edit dani golan formerly of emc and performix 5 founded kaminario in 2008 and became its ceo . products & services edit kaminario s first commercial release 6 of its k2 flash storage array was in june 2010 . it was an ssd san storage array that provided millions of iops for database applications . 4 7 8 in april 2013 kaminario launched 9 k2 v4 with spear architecture and scale out capability . the k2 v4 all flash array included snapshots non disruptive upgrades support for vaai 10 and choice of iscsi and fibre channel connections . in may 2014 kaminario introduced 11 the fifth generation of its k2 all flash data storage array based on an x86 processor platform . 12 the k2 v5 added 13 the ability to increase an individual node s flash storage capacity with the addition of extra ssds . k2 v5 s enterprise storage features include deduplication and compression encryption non disruptive upgrades gui based management snapshots thin provisioning and resiliency . k2 v5 supports workloads in the server virtualization vdi and database oltp real time analytics environments . investors edit as of february 2015 kaminario has received 143 million 14 in total venture capital funding . the first round came in may 2011 with 15 million in series c 15 funding from globespan capital partners sequoia capital and pitango venture capital . kaminario received 25 million in series d 15 funding in june 2012 from tenaya capital globespan capital partners sequoia capital and pitango venture capital . in december 2014 and january 2015 the company announced 68 million in a series e 16 round from lazarus hedge fund silicon valley bank sequoia capital pitango venture capital tenaya capital mitsui & co. global investment and globespan capital . kaminario is backed 17 by sequoia capital pitango venture capital tenaya capital mitsui & co. global investment and globespan capital . awards & recognitions edit in november 2011 kaminario was named as a finalist 18 for storage networking product of the year at the svc awards 19 sponsored by angel business communications ltd 20 publishers of storage networking solutions uk 21 sns uk and sns europe . 22 in january 2012 kaminario was named as a finalist 23 in storage magazine 24 s and searchstorage.com 25 s products of the year competition for 2011 backed by techtarget . in july 2012 the company announced 26 audited spc 1 results of 1 219 973.91 iops at .40 per spc 1 iops . kaminario broke 27 the storage performance council 28 s spc 1 world record for sustained storage performance in october 2013 for the second year in a row with its fourth generation k2 k2 v4 array performing at 1 239 898.00 spc 1 iops . k2 v4 was also able to provide the two best spc 1 price performance results out of the top five at 0.80 spc 1 iops . in november 2013 kaminario broke the storage performance council s spc 2 mbps world record 29 for processing throughput and spc 2 price performance with its fourth generation k2 k2 v4 array performing at an average data throughput of 33 477.03 spc 2 mbps a . in august 2014 kaminario s v5 k2 all flash array was awarded 30 best of show for most innovative flash memory technology at the flash memory summit . in november 2014 kaminario achieved 31 the highest spc 1 benchmark by that date with a world record 1.239 million iops . customers & partners edit kaminario s customers operate across many industries . some of kaminario s customers include allant group clearwater analytics taboola petmeds and intigua among others . the company also has clients in the global financial services sector . their products also serve digital media companies telecommunications firms and government agencies . in february 2015 kaminario announced 32 a new partnership program called accelerate . at the time of the announcement accelerate had over 70 active partners 33 in north america with plans to expand to the program to europe middle east africa emea references edit kovar joseph may 20 2014 . kaminario brings enterprise class software scale up to flash storage arrays . retrieved 3 june 2014 . higginbotham stacey 2 may 2011 . another ssd hardware startup gets cash . when s the shakeout . gigaom . retrieved 27 march 2012 . huang gregory t. 2 may 2011 . kaminario collects 15m for storage grid . xconomy . retrieved 27 march 2012 . a b mellor chris 14 june 2010 . kaminario climbs performance mountain ; k2 dram grid in a box . the register . retrieved 27 march 2012 . http www.bloomberg.com research stocks private person.asp personid 132913274 & privcapid 83343411 http searchstorage.techtarget.com feature sizing up storage performance analysis options higginbotham stacey 15 june 2010 . like our data storage startups are multiplying . gigaom . retrieved 27 march 2012 . marks howard 15 september 2011 . purpose built or off the shelf hardware a tale of two systems . network computing . retrieved 27 march 2012 . http www.storagereview.com kaminario announces k2 version 4 with all flash http searchvirtualstorage.techtarget.com definition vstorage apis for array integration vaai http www.infostor.com san kaminario eyes midrange market with 5th gen flash arrays.html http www.zdnet.com article kaminario releases the fourth generation of k2 flash storage systems http www.storagereview.com kaminario announces k2 v5 allflash primary storage arrays http www.bizjournals.com boston blog startups 2015 01 newton storage firm kaminario raises another 15m.html a b https www.crunchbase.com organization kaminario http www.xconomy.com boston 2015 01 22 68m round puts kaminario back in the flash data storage mix http venturebeat.com 2014 12 02 kaminario funding http www.reuters.com article 2011 11 21 idus132794 21 nov 2011 bw20111121 http www.svcawards.com http www.angelbc.com home http www.snsuk.info http snseurope.info home http searchstorage.techtarget.com data storage 2011 products of the year finalists http searchstorage.techtarget.com ezine storage magazine http searchstorage.techtarget.com http www.storageperformance.org benchmark results files spc 1 kaminario % 20a00118 kaminario k2 d a00118 kaminario k2 d spc 1 executive summary.pdf http www.storageperformance.org results benchmark results spc1 active a00137 http www.storageperformance.org home http www.theregister.co.uk 2013 11 21 kaminario cleans up on spc with screaming streamer http www.flashmemorysummit.com english conference bos winners.html http www.storageperformance.org results benchmark results spc1 top ten http www.theregister.co.uk 2015 02 10 kaminario channel embiggenment http www.channelinsider.com tech companies kaminario 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