articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . may 2016 tintr inc. type private industry data storage devices information technology virtualization founded 2008 headquarters mountain view california united states key people ken klein president and ceo kieran harty cto & co founder ian halifax cfo mark gritter co founder products vm aware storage website www.tintri.com tintri inc. is an american information technology company based in mountain view california . tintri provides flash based vm aware storage vas products designed for virtual machines and cloud computing . the company s core product line is the vmstore . 1 it is a box designed to simplify the administration of data center hardware and software supporting a large number of virtual machines with high performance . 2 3 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 products 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit tintri was founded in 2008 by kieran harty who had led development at vmware as their executive vice president of engineering from 1999 to 2006 . the initial objective was solving the mismatch between conventional storage and the demands of applications in virtual machine environments which causes complex configuration and management as well as over provisioning . 4 tintri means lightning in the gaelic language . 5 early investors included new enterprise associates and lightspeed venture partners . the first two rounds raised about 17 million before 2011 . 6 7 another round of about 25 million was disclosed in july 2012 with menlo ventures as additional investor . 8 9 pete sonsini son of silicon valley attorney larry sonsini was an early board member . 10 in october 2013 ken klein a tintri board member and former president of wind river systems became chairman and chief executive . 11 ian halifax also from wind river was named chief financial officer in january 2014 . 12 a round of 75 million investment in february 2014 was led by insight venture partners . 13 in august 2015 a 125 million investment round was led by silver lake kraftwerk joined by previous investors . 14 in october 2016 charles giancarlo from silver lake joined the board of directors . 15 technology edit tintri vmstore uses vms and virtual disks in place of conventional storage abstractions such as luns and volumes as core system management constructs . vm level qos and performance allocation automatically monitors and controls io to vdisks and vms . tintri also provides a global view of all the vms stored on the vmstore and real time view of latency from guest vms vsphere hosts the network and storage . 16 tintri vmstores are accessed by clients over standard file service protocols such as the network file system nfs and server message block smb . the product runs on a customized linux operating system . the tintri vmstore t5000 all flash series array products edit tintri shipped its first generation products in april 2011 . 17 6 since then the company introduced vm granular replication known as replicatevm 18 19 support for vmware virtual volumes vvols vm level automation and analytics and concurrent multi hypervisor support 20 on april 9 2015 tintri announced software that enables administrators to set maximum and minimum input out operations per second iops to each individual vm with visual guidance on the values to specify . 21 on august 20 2015 tintri announced the vmstore t5000 series . 22 23 tintri announced another product on may 17 2016 . 24 25 see also edit direct attached storage hypervisor network attached storage storage area network virtual machine vm aware storage references edit peter cohan july 31 2013 . tintri s 110 % growth grabs share from netapp emc in 10 billion market . forbes . retrieved october 6 2016 . derek schauland august 28 2013 . review tintri datastore in a box . techrepublic . retrieved october 6 2016 . chris mellor may 17 2012 . you can feed 800 vms off 1 of our boxes startup brags . the register . retrieved 16 october 2013 . pender lee 14 august 2013 . storage for the modern data center . virtualization review . retrieved 16 october 2013 . peter cohan february 23 2012 . tintri s flash of storage lightning puts emc in the dark . forbes . retrieved october 6 2016 . a b former vmware r & d chief launches tintri with 17m funding . san jose business journal . march 26 2011 . retrieved october 6 2016 . dave rosenberg march 24 2011 . storage start up tintri launches with 17 million . cnet news . retrieved october 6 2016 . form d notice of exempt offering of securities . us sec . july 25 2012 . retrieved october 6 2016 . chris mellor july 25 2012 . tintri trousers 25m to crank out flash storage grease . retrieved october 6 2016 . scott denne october 17 2011 . pete sonsini brings tech heritage to nea . venture capital dispatch . wall street journal . retrieved october 6 2016 . tintri names ken klein as chairman and chief executive office to accelerate company s growth . tintri press release . october 15 2013 . retrieved october 6 2016 . tintri appoints ian halifax as cfo . tintri press release . january 29 2014 . retrieved october 6 2016 . arik hesseldahl february 13 2014 . ipo bound tintri raises 75 million in round led by insight venture partners . recode . retrieved october 6 2016 . darrow bob 5 august 2015 . tintri snags 125 million to market its new look storage appliance . fortune . retrieved 5 august 2015 . charles giancarlo joins tintri board of directors . press release . october 4 2016 . retrieved october 6 2016 . pott trevor 23 april 2013 . you got your tintri hat . the register . retrieved 16 october 2013 . vance ashlee 24 march 2011 . taking the pain out of virtual computing . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 16 october 2013 . leading provider of vm aware storage systems enables worldwide agility for virtual machines simplifies management and resource planning process for distributed datacenters . tintri press release . 8 april 2013 . retrieved 16 october 2013 . epping duncan 8 april 2013 . tintri releases version 2.0 . yellowbricks.com . retrieved 16 october 2013 . tintri introduces new generation of smart storage with multi hypervisor support and industry s first vm level automation capabilities . tintri press releases . 14 august 2014 . retrieved 17 august 2014 . chris mellor april 13 2015 . tintri gets all touchy feely with latest os update . the register . retrieved october 9 2016 . tintri announces new vm aware all flash storage platform providing customers the choice of all flash and hybrid flash with common os real time analytics and the ability to optimize workloads across storage platforms . press release . august 20 2015 . archived from the original on september 10 2015 . epping duncan 20 august 2015 . tintri announces all flash storage device and tintri os 4.0 . yellor bricks . retrieved 20 august 2015 . tintri unveils scale out storage platform to enable enterprises and csps to build their own amazon like cloud infrastructure.delivers industry s largest all flash scale out with support for up to 160 000 vms . tintri press release . retrieved may 17 2016 . mellor chris 17 may 2016 . tintri debuts storage precog that knows what you ll need in 6 months . the register . retrieved 17 may 2016 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tintri & oldid 743905676 categories computer storage companiesstorage area network companiescompanies established in 2008computer companies of the united statescompanies based in californiacompanies based in mountain view californiahidden categories orphaned articles from may 2016all orphaned articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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