Whiptail Technologies
| File:Whiptail logo.png | |
| Industry | Information technology, data storage |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | Template:Ublist |
| Fate | Acquired |
| Successor | Cisco Systems |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Dan Crain (CEO)[1] James Candelaria (CTO) Aaron 'AJ' Jennings (COO & SVP Corporate Development) Cristobal Conde (chairman)[2] |
| Products | ACCELA, INVICTA, INVICTA INFINITY |
| Website | www |
Whiptail Technologies LLC was a privately owned enterprise focused on developing data storage solutions utilizing solid-state drive technology. It was among the first to implement NAND flash memory as a substitute for traditional hard disk drives in enterprise-level storage architectures.[3] The firm derived its name from the whiptail racerunner, a swift lizard species indigenous to the southwestern United States.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
On October 29, 2013, Cisco Systems acquired Whiptail for an estimated sum of US $415 million.[4]
History
Based in Whippany, New Jersey, with additional offices in San Jose, California and London, Whiptail was established in 2009 by CEO Edward T Rebholz and CTO James Candelaria.[3] Initial funding came from investors such as Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures, and Spring Mountain Capital. In January 2012, the company secured over $10 million through Series B funding.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name Later that year, in December 2012, Whiptail raised $31 million during its Series C round, led by Ignition Partners and joined by strategic investor SanDisk Ventures.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
Whiptail's inaugural product, the XLR8r, debuted in 2009. By May 2012, the company introduced the ACCELA all-flash array alongside INVICTA, which offered scalable, high-availability modular architecture supporting multiple protocols.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name November 2012 marked the launch of INVICTA INFINITY, capable of delivering more than 4 million IOPS and data transfer speeds up to 40 GB/second,Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name together with version 4.1 of the RACERUNNER software that enabled replication to arrays beyond Whiptail’s own.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
Dan Crain, previously CTO of Brocade Communications Systems, assumed the role of CEO on January 31, 2011.[1] In March 2013, Cristóbal Conde, formerly CEO of SunGard, was named Chairman of the Board.[2]
Whiptail cultivated strategic alliances with companies including Cisco, Citrix, SanDisk, Micron, and VMware.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name Its products were integrated with Cisco’s VXI and UCS platforms,Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name while both INVICTA and ACCELA attained Citrix Ready certification,Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name supporting enhanced virtualization and cloud computing capabilities. SanDisk’s venture capital division invested and included Alex Lam as a board observer.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name Both product lines also achieved VMware Ready status.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
On September 10, 2013, Cisco declared intentions to acquire Whiptail for $415 million to incorporate its technology into Cisco UCS fabric solutions at both hardware and management layers.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
On July 24, 2015, Cisco announced the discontinuation of support for Whiptail's Invicta Appliance and Scaling System product lines.Cite error: The opening <ref> tag is malformed or has a bad name
Products
| ACCELA | INVICTA | INVICTA INFINITY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application Workloads | Ranges from 1 to 9 | Supports 1 to 60 | Handles between 1 and 300 |
| Nodes | Between 2 and 6 | From 7 up to 30 | |
| Storage Capacity | Spans 1.5 to 12 TB | Covers 6 to 72 TB | Extends from 84 to 360 TB |
| Performance | Delivers up to 250,000 IOPS | Provides up to 650,000 IOPS | Offers a range of 800,000 to 4,000,000 IOPS |
| Bandwidth | Up to 1.9 GB/s | Reaches up to 7 GB/s | Capable of 40 GB/s |
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