Tintri

Tintrí, Inc.
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]

History

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. A native of Ireland, Harty had graduate degrees from Trinity College, Dublin and Stanford University.[4] The initial objective for the company was solving the mismatch between conventional storage and the demands of applications in virtual machine (VM) environments, which causes complex configuration and management as well as over-provisioning.[5] Tintri means "lightning" in the Gaelic language.[6]

Early investors included David Cheriton (Harty's Ph.D. adviser)[7] and venture capital from New Enterprise Associates and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The first two rounds raised about $17 million before being disclosed in 2011.[8][9] Another round of about $25 million was disclosed in July, 2012, with Menlo Ventures as additional investor.[10][11] Pete Sonsini, (son of Silicon Valley attorney Larry Sonsini) was an early board member.[12] In October 2013, Ken Klein, a Tintri board member and former president of Wind River Systems, became chairman and chief executive.[13] Ian Halifax, also from Wind River, was named chief financial officer in January 2014.[14]

A round of $75 million investment in February 2014 was led by Insight Venture Partners.[15] In August 2015, a $125 million investment round was led by Silver Lake Kraftwerk joined by previous investors.[16] In October, 2016, Charles Giancarlo (from Silver Lake) joined the board of directors.[17]

Technology

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.[18]

Tintri VMstores are accessed by clients over standard file service protocols such as the Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB).[19] The software runs on a customized Linux operating system.

The Tintri VMstore T5000 All-Flash Series Array

Tintri shipped its first products in April 2011.[20][8] Since then, the company introduced VM-granular replication in 2013,[21] support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLs), VM-level automation and analytics, and other hypervisors such as Hyper-V in 2014.[22]

On April 9, 2015, Tintri announced software that enables administrators to set maximum and minimum input/output operations per second (IOPS) to each individual VM, with visual guidance on the values to specify.[23]

On August 20, 2015, Tintri announced the VMstore T5000 series.[24][19] At the same time, the VMstack product was announced using the marketing term converged infrastructure.[25]

Tintri announced higher storage capacity and new software in May, 2016.[26][27]

Competitors are considered to include NetApp, Nimble Storage, and Tegile Systems.[11][16][28]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Peter Cohan (July 31, 2013). "Tintri's 110% growth grabs share from NetApp, EMC in $10 billion market". Forbes. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  2. ↑ Derek Schauland (August 28, 2013). "Review: Tintri datastore in a box". TechRepublic. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Chris Mellor (May 17, 2012). "You can feed 800 VMs off 1 of our boxes, startup brags". The Register. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  4. ↑ "J-1 visa leads Trinity graduate to Silicon Valley success". The Irish Times. August 12, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Pender, Lee (14 August 2013). "Storage for the modern data center". Virtualization Review. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Peter Cohan (February 23, 2012). "Tintri's Flash of Storage Lightning Puts EMC In the Dark". Forbes. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Kieran Harty (November 29, 2012). "Home is Where the Talent (and VCs) Are: Silicon Valley Still Unparalleled as Tech Hotbed". Wired Innovation Insights. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  8. 1 2 "Former VMware R&D chief launches Tintri with $17M funding". San Jose Business Journal. March 26, 2011. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dave Rosenberg (March 24, 2011). "Storage start-up Tintri launches with $17 million". CNet News. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Form D: Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities". US SEC. July 25, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  11. 1 2 Chris Mellor (July 25, 2012). "Tintri trousers $25m to crank out flash storage grease". Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  12. ↑ Scott Denne (October 17, 2011). "Pete Sonsini Brings Tech Heritage To NEA". Venture Capital Dispatch. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "Tintri Appoints Ian Halifax as CFO". Tintri Press Release. January 29, 2014. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  15. ↑ Arik Hesseldahl (February 13, 2014). "IPO-Bound Tintri Raises $75 Million in Round Led by Insight Venture Partners". recode. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  16. 1 2 Barb Darrow (August 5, 2015). "Tintri snags $125 million to market its new-look storage appliance". Fortune. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Charles Giancarlo joins Tintri Board of Directors". Press release. October 4, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016.
  18. ↑ Trevor Pott (April 23, 2013). "You got your Tintri hat, beermat and cat: But what does it all mean?". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  19. 1 2 Duncan Epping (August 20, 2015). "Tintri announces all-flash storage device and Tintri OS 4.0". Yellow-Bricks blog. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
  20. ↑ Ashlee Vance (March 24, 2011). "Taking the pain out of virtual computing". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  21. ↑ Duncan Epping (April 8, 2013). "Tintri releases version 2.0 - Replication added". Yellow-Bricks blog.
  22. ↑ Chris Mellor (December 15, 2014). "Tintri adds Hyper-V to its virtualised server support: Oh Hyper-V, oh Hyper-V, now you are but one of three". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  23. ↑ Chris Mellor (April 13, 2015). "Tintri gets all touchy-feely with latest OS update". The Register. Retrieved October 9, 2016.
  24. ↑ "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.
  25. ↑ Chris Mellor (August 20, 2015). "Tintri adds tincture of all-flash array to its range: Crafts a converged infrastructure offering for channel". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  26. ↑ "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. May 17, 2016. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  27. ↑ Chris Mellor (May 17, 2016). "Tintri debuts storage precog that knows what you'll need in 6 months". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
  28. ↑ George Crump (November 13, 2012). "VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage". Blog. Storage Switzerland. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
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