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המיזוג נפל — ובסטארט־אפ השבבים הישראלי מחשבים מסלול מחדש
Israeli startup Pliops has decided to withdraw from a merger deal with French company Kalray after nearly six months of negotiations. The two companies had officially announced their intention to merge in early June, after signing a letter of intent that outlined the principles of the merger. However, the talks have now been halted. Pliops believes that a business focus shift they made to the world of artificial intelligence will allow them to finally break into the central data market.
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Pliops merger with Kalray falls through after stock price collapses | CTech
Israeli startup Pliops, a developer of acceleration solutions for AI and storage servers in data centers, has cancelled its merger with French company Kalray due to a significant drop in Kalrays share value. The merger, announced two months ago, was called off after Kalrays shares fell by over 50%. Despite the cancellation, both companies will explore commercial ways to combine their technologies. Pliops, founded in 2017, has raised over $200 million from investors and was last valued at around $650-700 million. The company employs around 120 people and was led by Uri Beitler until his replacement by Ido Bukspan in June.
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AI data acceleration startup Pliops loses over 90% of value in merger with Kalray | CTech
Israeli startup Pliops, a developer of acceleration solutions for AI and storage servers in data centers, is set to merge with French company Kalray. Pliops was last valued at around $650-700 million when it raised a $100 million Series D in August 2022. However, the merger terms propose that Kalray shareholders will hold 65% of the new entity, with Pliops shareholders holding up to 35%, potentially increasing to 40% upon achieving strategic milestones. Pliops shareholders are set to receive $50-60 million worth of shares, significantly less than the companys valuation two years ago.
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סטארט-אפ השבבים הישראלי במו"מ למיזוג - והיו"ר איל וולדמן מפעיל קשרים
Israeli chip startup Pliops is in advanced negotiations to merge with French public company Kalray, which operates in a similar field. The negotiations are at an advanced stage but there is no certainty that they will be successfully completed.
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Pliops Wins Data Breakthrough Awards Program's 'Flash Storage Solution of the Year' Award
Pliops, a data processors provider, has announced that its AlloyDB Omni has been named Flash Storage Solution of the Year by the Data Breakthrough Awards program. The award recognizes standout solutions and companies in the data technology market. Pliops AlloyDB Omni is a result of a collaboration with Google and Lenovo, designed to accelerate traditional database and AI applications. The solution is preconfigured, tested, validated, and optimized for deployment in edge computing and enterprise data center environments. Pliops has raised over $200 million from investors including Koch Disruptive Technologies, Intel Capital, and NVIDIA among others.
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Pliops Elevates Performance, Reliability for High-Performance Computing Applications
Pliops, a provider of data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers, is showcasing its storage solutions at SC23. The solutions, which run on the Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP), aim to maximize data center infrastructure investments by increasing application performance, storage reliability and capacity, and overall stack efficiency. Drug discovery and development company Eikon Therapeutics is using Pliops XDP to improve operations and address data growth. The Pliops solution has significantly improved performance and reduced operational overhead. Pliops has raised over $200 million from investors including Koch Disruptive Technologies and Intel Capital.
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Ido Bukspan appointed new CEO of Pliops | CTech
Pliops, an Israeli startup that develops data processors for cloud and enterprise data centers, has appointed Ido Bukspan as its new CEO. Bukspan, who previously served as SVP of Chip Design at NVIDIA, will also join the companys board. Uri Beitler, co-founder and former CEO of Pliops, will become Chief Strategy & Business Development officer. The company, which was founded in 2017, has raised approximately $215 million from investors including Koch Disruptive Technologies, State of Mind Ventures, Momentum, Intel Capital, Viola Ventures, SoftBank, NVIDIA, AMD, WD, and SK hynix.
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Pliops raises $100 million to make data centers run faster and more efficiently | CTech
Pliops, a data processor developer, has closed a $100 million Series D funding round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies. The funding brings the total investment in the company to over $200 million. Pliops recently laid off 12 employees to focus on its business and technological activity in the U.S. The companys technology aims to make data centers run faster and more efficiently, reducing infrastructure costs. Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) simplifies data processing and flash management. The funding will help the company maximize its capabilities and become profitable in the coming years.
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Pliops Extreme Data Processor Wins Best Hyperscaler Implementation at FMS 2022
Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) has been named Best of Show in the Hyperscaler Implementation category at the 2022 Flash Memory Summit. The implementation of Pliops XDP by a top-five Software as a Service provider has helped improve customer satisfaction, scale infrastructure, and grow the business. Pliops XDP offers scalability, drive failure protection, inline compression, and storage capacity expansion capabilities, enabling data centers to process, store, and move data more efficiently. The companys unique approach addresses the challenges of data growth and flash-based infrastructure. Pliops is well-funded by leading investors including Koch Disruptive Technologies, State of Mind Ventures, Intel Capital, Viola Ventures, SoftBank Ventures Asia, Expon Capital, NVIDIA, AMD, Western Digital, and Alicorn.
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phoenixNAP Partners with Pliops to Deliver Accelerated Cloud Services
phoenixNAP has partnered with Pliops to enhance its Bare Metal Cloud platform. Through this collaboration, phoenixNAP can offer on-demand cloud services with improved performance, reliability, and scalability for data-intensive workloads. The integration of Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) allows for automated provisioning of Pliops-powered instances, enabling organizations to access advanced compute resources and simplify infrastructure management. The partnership expands phoenixNAPs capabilities and provides customers with easier access to advanced data and storage processing capabilities. The collaboration is expected to drive growth for phoenixNAP by offering enhanced services to performance-sensitive users.
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Pliops Appoints VMware Veteran as Vice President of Product Management and Strategic Alliances
Pliops has appointed Sudhanshu Jain as vice president of product management and strategic alliances. Jain will lead product strategy and forge deeper relationships with key ecosystem partners. The addition of Jain comes at a pivotal time for Pliops, which recently launched its Extreme Data Processor (XDP). Pliops aims to scale its technology into new use cases and grow its product line. The company has raised $115 million to date from investors including Expon Capital, Intel Capital, Koch Disruptive Technologies, NVIDIA, SoftBank Ventures Asia, State of Mind Ventures, Viola Ventures, Western Digital, and Xilinx.
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מה עושים כשהמעבדים לא עומדים בקצב האיחסון שדורש העולם?
The article discusses the challenges faced by companies in managing the increasing amount of data and the inability of current processors to keep up with the pace. It mentions Pliops, a company that offers new solutions for data storage and processing. These solutions fundamentally change the way data is stored, managed, protected, and accessed, enabling more to be achieved with less on the existing infrastructure. The solutions can be installed in any data center and are suitable for all types of customers, from startups to enterprises or data-intensive cloud players.
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Pliops Teams with TD SYNNEX to Multiply Effectiveness of Data Center Infrastructure Investments
Pliops has signed an agreement with TD SYNNEX to distribute Pliops XDP in North America. This partnership will help Pliops expand its presence and scale through TD SYNNEXs extensive distribution channels. Pliops XDP is a breakthrough acceleration platform that manages data flow from application to storage, optimizing data placement and enabling high performance with data protection and compression. Pliops aims to work with systems integrators and value-added resellers to offer its solutions to customers. The partnership with TD SYNNEX will help raise awareness of Pliops performance and efficiency benefits in the North American reseller ecosystem.
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Pliops משיקה את ה-XDP (Extreme Data Processor) מעבד העתיד של מהפכת מרכזי הנתונים New-Tech OnLine
Pliops, a provider of innovative data solutions, has announced the launch of its Extreme Data Processor (XDP), which dramatically simplifies data storage and processing. The XDP offers new levels of processing power and increases the effective storage area of all types of databases and platforms for analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, fifth-generation technologies, IoT, and other data-intensive applications. The new XDP improves the most common applications today by achieving maximum productivity and freeing up space for new applications and new embedding models.
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Pliops Launches Extreme Data Processor to Multiply Data-Intensive Application Performance and Slash Data Center Infrastructure Costs
Pliops has launched its Extreme Data Processor (XDP), a breakthrough processor that simplifies data processing and storage in data centers. The XDP offers increased performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency for various data-intensive applications. It eliminates redundancies and accelerates performance, allowing data center infrastructures to scale more efficiently. The XDP is compatible with relational, NoSQL, and in-memory databases, analytics, AI/ML, 5G, IoT, and other applications. It delivers immediate value, expands the potential of existing architectures, and helps optimize infrastructure costs. Pliops has partnerships with Intel and NVIDIA, enabling better scaling and cost-efficiency for SSD investments. The company has raised $115 million in funding from various investors. The XDP is now available from multiple distributors and leading server OEMs.
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Israeli storage processor co Pliops raises $65m
Israeli storage processor and database acceleration company Pliops has completed a $65 million financing round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). The funding will enhance Pliops ability to deliver value for enterprise and cloud customers, allowing them to scale their technology into new use cases and expand their product line. The company aims to double its size by the end of 2021. Pliops storage processor accelerates the processing of data-intensive applications in data centers, unlocking the full potential of SSD storage. The financing round was oversubscribed, with all current investors participating and Nvidia increasing its share.
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Eyal Waldman joins Pliops board
Israeli cloud storage processor developer Pliops has appointed Eyal Waldman, the founder and former CEO of Mellanox Technologies, to its board of directors. Waldman will help guide Pliops strategy and scale its technology. Pliops aims to revolutionize data and storage management in data centers. The company has raised $45 million from investors including Softbank Ventures Asia, Intel Capital, and Mellanox Capital (Nvidia).
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Pliops Storage Processor Proven to Boost Flash Performance by More Than 10x, Price/Performance by More than 90%
Pliops, a technology innovator, has successfully tested its new Storage Processor with multiple tier-one cloud and enterprise companies. The testing has shown that the Storage Processor can boost performance by more than 10x, reduce latency by up to 1000x, and increase flash price/performance by more than 90%. The Storage Processor addresses scalability challenges in data centers caused by the cloud data explosion, AI and ML applications, and the shift to online work, education, and entertainment. It aims to handle these demands cost efficiently. Pliops Storage Processor is a PCIe card that delivers significant performance benefits for databases, servers, and storage infrastructures. It reduces storage and processor costs, enables system consolidation, and makes QLC SSDs viable for mainstream workloads. The company plans to make the Storage Processor generally available later this year.
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The Decline of Moore's Law and the Rise of the Hardware Accelerator
Pliops, a technology innovator, has developed a storage processor that enables data centers to operate faster and more efficiently. The company addresses the slowing of Moores Law and the increasing demand for performance in processors due to the cloud data explosion and AI applications. Pliops architecture overcomes the inefficiencies of software-only storage engines through a dedicated hardware product. By creating silicon-based accelerators for cloud databases and infrastructures, Pliops offers a specialized solution for compute performance. The company has received investments from Softbank Ventures Asia, Intel Capital, Western Digital, Mellanox, and Xilinx. Pliops technology delivers 10x faster performance and 100x improved response time in less storage capacity. The article was published on April 22, 2020.
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Pliops Named 'Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup' at Flash Memory Summit 2019
Pliops has been awarded a Best of Show Award in the Most Innovative Flash Memory Startup category at the Flash Memory Summit 2019. The company showcased its new Storage Processor that accelerates database storage functions. The solution is capable of accelerating MySQL applications by up to 7x and reducing compressed data by up to 50%. Pliops aims to address the scalability challenges of cloud data explosion and increasing data requirements of AI and machine learning applications. The company has received investments from Softbank Ventures Asia, Intel Capital, Western Digital, Xilinx, and Mellanox. Pliops technology enables data centers to run faster and more efficiently, accessing data up to 100 times faster with reduced computational load and power consumption.
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Mellanox Capital invests in two storage cos
Mellanox Capital, the investment arm of Mellanox Technologies, has announced investments in two storage companies: CNEX Labs and Pliops. CNEX Labs has developed storage controllers for unmatched performance, flexibility, and efficiency, while Pliops is transforming data center infrastructure with storage processors that deliver scalability and lower the cost of data services. The financial details of the investments were not disclosed. Mellanox Technologies aims to optimize datacenter solutions by connecting faster, smarter storage with faster, smarter networks. The investments in CNEX Labs and Pliops will accelerate the deployment of scale-out storage and data-intensive analytics solutions.
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Israeli cloud storage solutions co Pliops raises $30m
Pliops, an Israeli cloud storage solutions company, has closed a $30 million Series B financing round led by Softbank Ventures Asia. The funds will be used to accelerate the development of its storage processor technology for cloud storage and database applications. The round was oversubscribed and brings the total invested in Pliops to $40 million. Pliops storage processor allows cloud databases to scale more efficiently, with significant reductions in compute load, network traffic, latency, and improvements in application throughput. The company plans to expand its teams in the US, Israel, and China. Pliops was founded by CEO Uri Beitler, chairman Arie Mergi, and CTO Moshe Twitto. The company has offices in Ramat Gan and Haifa.
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