Peaxy offers a vision of the future – and it’s a silo-melding data lake

Raking over dead file virtualisation ashes ... could the flames return?

Something old, something new

Peaxy was started up in 2012 by a foursome:

• Manuel Terranova (CEO), ex-SVP at General Electric
• Francesco Lacapra (CTO and veep of Engineering) ex-founder and CTO Maxiscale, ex-Attune, BlueArc, and Quantum
• Joe Lin (Chief Architect) previously at Quantum/Snap, Sun Microsystems and Cisco
• Luciano Dalle Ore (Distinguished Engineer) previously at Quantum/Snap, Z-Force/Attune, Lumenare and SmApper, and member of the team that developed the original iSCSI standard.

The company received a $17m A-round of funding in 2013.

It’s pitch is that it can meld old and new and different data silos together to provide a silo-melding data lake for analytic workflows.

It’s as if it is saying that 'this time around we really need file virtualisation because without it we have to physically transfer data in different formats from different and heterogeneous storage media and locations into a single great unified silo'.

Well, let our Hyperfiler craft a virtual silo for you instead; much better.

Peaxy quotes this example: “Think about the maintenance needs of an airliner. Original schematics may yield information that determines the lifespan of a certain part under normal conditions, while simulation data offers information on outside factors that may have altered this. Combined with real-time telemetry, engineering teams can make the case to the airline to pull an engine from operation before a problem surfaces, greatly extending the life of that equipment.”

If all this strikes a chord with you then read more about its Hyperfiler technology here. ®