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Follow on Google News | Actifio Secures $8 Million In Series A Funding To Address Market Demand For Dynamic Data ManagementNorth Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners Lead Strategic Investment to Capitalize on Explosive Market Opportunity for Next-Generation Data Management Solutions
By: Derek Kol This financing was led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. With the funds, Actifio will expand its sales channel, and invest in marketing to drive market share for its next-generation data management solutions. Server virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware, along with solutions from Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and others have enabled the transformation of the computing infrastructure into an efficient, dynamic computing resource. However, the storage infrastructure continues to be a major bottleneck in this transformation, with data lifecycle management shackled by point tools that are deployed in silos - creating complexity, inflexibility and at a significant expense. Purpose-built to radically simplify and deliver unprecedented agility, Actifio’s DMV technology reduces the real cost of managing the application data lifecycle and virtualizes vendor-independent physical or cloud-based storage devices into a private, public or hybrid storage cloud infrastructure. “Actifio addresses a significant pain point for enterprises that need comprehensive data protection in a single solution,” said Jamie Goldstein, general partner, North Bridge Venture Partners. “Actifio has all the ingredients for success including a hot market opportunity, technology superiority, and a stellar executive team that will allow Actifio to deliver on the promise of Data Management Virtualization.” “Traditional data protection tools have become a major management obstacle in the migration to dynamic data centers to realize the value of virtualization,” The newly funded organization has an all-star leadership team with deep-domain expertise in building successful companies and emerging technologies that deliver unprecedented value to customers and partners on a global scale. The Actifio executive team includes: Ash Ashutosh, president and CEO (formerly vice president & chief technologist of HP's StorageWorks division and founder, CEO and CTO of AppIQ and Serano Systems) David Chang, vice president of products (formerly founder and vice president of product management at AppIQ) Steven Blumenau, vice president of marketing (formerly vice president, digital archive sales at Iron Mountain; senior director of advanced development at EMC, and founder and CEO of Avalere) Rick Nagengast, vice president of sales (formerly vice president channel and partner development of EMC and GM of Storage Products Division of DEC and Compaq) James Pownell, customer operations manager (formerly founder and president of Exagrid Systems; founder and vice president of engineering Highground Software and development manager at EMC) “The strategic investment by North Bridge Venture Partners and Greylock Partners is a strong validation for the company, our pioneering data management virtualization solution, and our ability to execute and capitalize on a multi-billion dollar market opportunity,” Tweet this: Actifio Secures $8 Million in Series A Funding to Deliver Dynamic Data Management Virtualization Solutions to Market Follow Actifio on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ About Actifio Actifio delivers a next-generation data management solution with radical simplicity, unprecedented agility and up to an order of magnitude lower cost. Based on Data Management Virtualization (DMV) technology, Actifio transforms individual silos of point tools into a unified solution using efficient pipelined management across the data lifecycle. The company’s patent-pending DMV technology delivers unified data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity across the data lifecycle for virtual and physical IT environments. For more information, please visit: http://www.actifio.com. END Media Contact: Sabrina Sanchez Ventana Public Relations (925) 785-3014 sabrina.sanchez@ End
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