Silk is a

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headquartered in

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, United States. Silk offers a cloud platform for enterprise customers with mission-critical applications. The company has offices in

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and

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History

CEO, Dani Golan, founded Silk in 2008. Originally called Kaminario, after the Japanese god of lightning, the company was a flash storage start-up. The company's first

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funding round was announced in May 2011 with a $15 million investment from Globespan Capital Partners,

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, and

Pitango Venture Capital Pitango Venture Capital, established in 1993, is Israel's largest venture capital fund with over $1.8 billion under management. Pitango is focused on seed, expansion and late stage companies in core technologies, consumer, and Life Sciences. The ...

. Silk received $25 million in series D funding in June 2012 from

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and existing investors. In December 2014 and January 2015, the company announced $68 million in a series E round from Lazarus Hedge Fund,

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, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, and existing investors. In 2017, the company evolved to focus purely on storage software in a Storage as a Service model. It partnered with

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to offer customers inexpensive hardware to run their storage software on. In 2020, the company rebranded itself as Silk.

Products

The Silk Platform is a virtualized data layer that sits between customers’ cloud infrastructure and databases/workloads. The Silk Platform decouples data from the cloud infrastructure, so workloads can be moved from one cloud vendor to another, to the private cloud, or to on-premises. Silk's Tier 1 data services include zero-footprint clones, data replication, deduplication, and thin provisioning to minimize the cloud resources being used. The Silk Platform is built on auto-scalable and symmetric active-active architecture that delivers performance across any workload profile, leveraging cloud native IaaS components. With the Silk Clarity capability, the platform uses machine-learning analytics to optimize resources. Silk Flex makes it possible to orchestrate and automate data management.

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External links

* {{Official website, https://www.silk.us Cloud computing Cloud databases Cloud storage Companies based in Massachusetts Information technology companies of Israel