by Angela Guess
Jolie O’Dell of VentureBeat has covered a surprising little Big Data startup called Delphix. She reports, “Delphix, a startup that exists at the boring-to-consumers-but-otherwise-a-total-goldmine intersection between cloud computing and big data, has just dried the ink on a healthy funding deal — one that brings tech heavyweights like Battery, Greylock, and Lightspeed to the table. This is the startup’s third round of institutional funding, and it’s a whopper — $25 million and oversubscribed. And all for agile data. What, you might ask, is agile data? As we read in the Delphix press release, ‘By virtualizing the data within enterprise databases, Delphix increases agility in database-driven application development and transforms the economics of database and application management.’ Right. Well then.”
She continues, “But while your mortal eyes might glaze over at the sight of such techno-jargon, mightier eyes have seen the value of Delphix’s business strategy — in a word, to save large companies (which just love paying out lots of money for professional services) time, storage costs, and productivity by taking their ginormous databases — where else? — to the cloud. Of course, moving that massive amount of interconnected, probably sensitive data around isn’t a feat for the feeble.”
photo credit: Delphix
