Silk Technologies Overview
Silk's cloud data platform is aiming to optimize cloud environments, allowing organizations to get more performance out of their existing cloud data while spending less. The platform fits between the full application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that the entire cloud environment runs smarter without changing a thing. With real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, Silk automatically matches the cloud data spend to the actual data needs.
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Latest News
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Silk Announces Appointment of Chief Sales Officer as Part of Senior Leadership Team | Silk
Silk has appointed Bridget Gleason as its new Chief Sales Officer. Gleasons experience in building teams and driving business growth will be key for Silks next stage of growth. In July, Silk announced $55M in Series B funding led by S Capital. Gleason will manage Silks worldwide sales and work closely with the management team to assist in leading Silks aggressive growth plans.
Management Changes
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Database optimization startup Silk raises $55M
Silk, a platform designed to improve database performance, has raised $55 million in a series B funding round led by S Capital. The funds will be used to support sales and marketing operations and expand the engineering team. Silk enables customers to scale databases on-demand and deliver better performance. The platform removes duplicate data, bridges silos between clouds and on-premise servers, and makes cloud environments run up to 10 times faster. Silk has a customer base including Payoneer, Priceline, Cisco, and Telefonica, and has partnered with Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. The company has raised over $294 million in venture capital to date.
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Why Kaminario changed its name to Silk - Blocks and Files
Kaminario, now known as Silk, has transformed from an on-premises all-flash array startup to a cloud block storage software company. The company has fully ported its 10-year-old software stack to the public cloud and offers low latency and consistent performance. Silk has partnerships with Google and plans to expand to AWS and Azure. The company aims to provide high availability in the public cloud and offers predictive analytics through its VisionOS software. Silk believes that a unified file and object storage resource would be cost-prohibitive and uses other providers front ends. The company sees potential growth in the cloud storage market, competing with all-flash array vendors like NetApp and Pure.
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Kaminario Announces Company Name Change to Silk
Kaminario, a leading cloud data platform company, has announced that it will begin operating under the new name of Silk. The rebranding reflects the companys evolution and vision for the future. Silks Cloud Data Platform aims to solve challenges faced by companies adopting hybrid cloud infrastructure, including maintaining cloud costs and achieving high performance. The platform offers real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and zero-footprint clones to make data across all clouds run more efficiently. Customers can expect 10x more performance for 30% less costs compared to native cloud alone. The rebranding signifies the companys focus on delivering strong, powerful technology that remains light and agile in the cloud.
Customers
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Kaminario pilots single data plane across the clouds: Interview with CTO Eyal David - Blocks and Files
Kaminario is focusing on hybrid, multi-clouds by making its Vision software stack available on major public cloud providers. The company aims to provide workload mobility and performance scalability at a lower price point than native cloud resources. Kaminario believes that decoupling data services from the underlying infrastructure and compute resources is crucial for enabling a real cloud implementation. The company also emphasizes the importance of consistent and scalable performance for modern workloads. Kaminario plans to leverage QLC flash and storage-class memory (SCM) in its solutions. Additionally, the company advocates for a storage abstraction layering to achieve a multi-cloud strategy and enable workload movement.
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| Sector | Business Software |
Funding
| Total funding | $254.5M |
| Last funding | $55M |
| Stage | B |
| Rounds | 10 |
| Investors | 15 |
Team Members
9
Employees: 201-500
Web & Social Links
| Website | silk.us/ |
| Careers | Careers page |
Locations
Ha-Otsma Street 1, Yokne'am Illit, Israel
Fowler Avenue, Farnborough GU14 7JF, United Kingdom
75 2nd Avenue, Needham, MA, USA
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