Tegile Systems

Tegile Systems

Type	Private
Industry	data storage, Hybrid array
Founded	2010
Headquarters	Newark, California, United States
Key people	Rohit Kshetrapal, CEO and Co-Founder Rajesh Nair, CTO and Co-Founder
Products	Hybrid and All-Flash storage arrays
Website	www.tegile.com

Tegile Systems is a manufacturer of flash storage arrays based in Newark, California. Both hybrid and all-flash storage arrays use technology called IntelliFlash.

History

Tegile Systems was founded in 2010 by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Justin Cheen, and Alok Agrawal. In February 2012, Tegile came out of stealth mode when it announced a product line called Zebi.^[1] Tegile investors include August Capital, SanDisk, and Western Digital. In 2013, a $32 million investment included Meritech Capital Partners.^[2] In May, 2015, a round of $70 million was announced, with additional investors Capricorn Investment Group, Cross Creek Advisors and Pine River Capital Management.^[3] By the end of 2015, Tegile had an estimated 360 employees.^[4]

Awards

• Dec 4, 2015 - Tegile Systems Named “Storage Company of the Year” at SVC Awards 2015^[5]
• May 20, 2015 - Tegile wins Datacentre ICT Storage Hardware Product of the Year at DCS Awards 2015^[6]
• March 24, 2015 - Tegile Systems Named to CRN’s 2015 5-Star Partner Program Guide^[7]
• Dec 3, 2014 - Tegile Systems Named ‘Storage Company of the Year’ at SVC Awards^[8]
• Dec 12, 2013 - The 10 Coolest Flash Storage/SSD Products Of 2013 (Tegile: Pay-As-You-Grow Hybrid Flash-Disk Arrays)^[9]
• Nov 11, 2013 - Tegile HA2800 earns Best-in-Class ranking among hybrid storage arrays^[10]
• July 24, 2013 - Tegile Wins Bronze in Best in Biz Awards 2013 International^[11]
• March 25, 2013 – Tegile Systems Named to CRN’s 2013 5-Star Partner Program Guide^[12]
• February 20, 2013 – Tegile Systems’ HA2800 Named ‘Best in Class’ by Research firm DCIG in New 2013 Flash Memory Storage Array Buyer’s Guide^[13]
• February 19, 2013 – Tegile Takes Gold in Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com’s 2012 Products of the Year Competition^[14]
• September 25, 2012 – Tegile Systems Named a 2012 Emerging Storage Vendor by CRN^[15]
• September 4, 2012 – Tegile Systems’ Storage Array Selected a Best of VMworld 2012 Finalist in the Hardware Virtualization Category^[16]
• June 6, 2012 – Tegile Systems Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup^[17]

Technology

Tegile developed what the company calls IntelliFlash Metadata Acceleration, which is a way to store metadata on high speed solid state disks, apart from the underlying data.^[18] Tegile hybrid and all-flash storage arrays use an implementation of the ZFS file system. Tegile made some changes to the way data is written to the file system, specifically how metadata is handled. IntelliFlash supports both block and file access, including iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC), Network File System (NFS), and Server Message Block (SMB) protocols. Tegile provides a storage management tool. Tegile arrays support inline data deduplication and data compression.

Some competitors are noted as Nimble Storage and Tintri.^[1][19]

References

1. Chris Mellor (June 1, 2012). "Newcomer gets out its box, plans to sell it cheaply to all comers: I swing all ways, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, CIFS, long time". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
2. Chris Mellor (August 6, 2013). "Backers fatten up flash-disk mutant array, sic it on storage giants". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
3. Chris Mellor (May 27, 2015). "Tegile scores VC cash to splash on flash growth dash: Mutant bods join the $100m-plus startup club". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
4. Chris Mellor (December 22, 2015). "Tegile: Tesla, T4000 and playing the long game on cheap data storage". The Register. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
5. "SVC Awards 2015 WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP". SVC Awards. Dec 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
6. "DCS Awards 2015" (PDF). DCS Awards. May 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
7. "2016 Partner Program Guide Details". Retrieved 27 August 2016.
8. "SVC Awards 2014 WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP". SVC Awards. Dec 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
9. "The 10 Coolest Flash Storage/SSD Products Of 2013". CRNaccessdate=13 January 2014. Dec 2013.
10. "DCIG 2014 Hybrid Storage Array Buyer's Guide Now Available". DCIG. Nov 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
11. "2013 International winners: Company categories". Best in Biz. Jul 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
12. "Tegile Systems Named to CRN's 2013 5-Star Partner Program Guide". CRN. Mar 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
13. "Tegile Systems' HA2800 Named 'Best in Class' by Research firm DCIG in New 2013 Flash Memory Storage Array Buyer's Guide". DCIG. Feb 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
14. "Tegile Systems HA2800 Storage Array". TechTarget. Feb 2013. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
15. "Emerging Vendors 2012: Storage". CRN. Aug 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
16. "Best of VMworld 2012 awards". TechTarget. Aug 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
17. "Americas 2012 Top 100". Red Herring. Jun 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
18. Chris Naddeo (November 11, 2014). "One Storage Stack to Rule Them All". Promotional blog posting. Strategic Storage Solutions. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
19. George Crump (November 13, 2012). "VM Aware Vs. ZFS Storage". Blog. Storage Switzerland. Retrieved October 21, 2016.