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Whiptail (styled as WHIPTAIL) was previously a privately held company that builds data storage systems out of solid-state drive components. Whiptail designed and commercialized the use of NAND flash memory as a replacement for hard disk drives in large-scale storage systems. The company is named after the whiptail racerunner, a fast lizard species indigenous to the southwestern United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=03C4B620-1A64-6A71-CE5C7FEF1D4B173E )〕 On October 29, 2013,Whiptail (advised by Eric Mandl and Vikram Rao) was acquired by Cisco Systems for approximately US $415M. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cisco Completes Acquisition of Whiptail ) ''Cisco Press Release''〕 ==History== Headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey, with offices in San Jose, California and London, United Kingdom, Whiptail was founded in 2009 by Edward T Rebholz CEO and (now CTO) James Candelaria.〔 Early investors included Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. In January 2012, Series B funding was reported as "more than $10 million."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.njtechweekly.com/art/1488-flash-array-maker-whiptail-secures-more-than-10-million-for-nj-expansion/ )〕 In December 2012, Whiptail announced a $31 million funding round. Ignition Partners led the Series C financing, with SanDisk Ventures joining as the new strategic investor (investment led by Alex Lam, Director of SanDisk Ventures), while RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital also participated.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.storagebytesnow.com/2012/12/14/whiptail-raises-31-million/ )〕 Whiptail released the XLR8r in 2009. In May 2012, Whiptail announced the ''ACCELA'' all-flash storage array, and ''INVICTA'', which featured scaling, high-availability, modular and multi-protocol technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226975/Whiptail_whips_up_modularly_scalable_all_flash_storage_array )〕 In November 2012, Whiptail announced ''INVICTA INFINITY'', which they said exceeded 4 million IOPS and 40 GB/second data rate〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.eweek.com/storage/whiptail-unveils-360tb-all-nand-flash-array/ )〕 and an upgrade to version 4.1. of the software ''RACERUNNER'', which allows businesses to replicate data to a non-Whiptail target array. On January 31, 2011, former CTO of Brocade Communications Systems Dan Crain became CEO.〔 On March 12, 2013, former SunGard CEO Cristóbal Conde was named Whiptail Chairman of the Board.〔 In 2012, Whiptail partnered with Cisco, Citrix, SanDisk, Micron and VMware.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://whiptail.com/partners/strategic/ )〕 Whiptail works with the Cisco VXI (Virtualization Experience Infrastructure) and the UCS (Unified Computing System).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://marketplace.cisco.com/catalog/companies/WHIPTAIL )〕 ''INVICTA'' and ''ACCELA'' are verified as Citrix Ready.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.citrix.com/ready/en/whiptail )〕 The Citrix Ready program identifies solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer, NetScaler and GoToMeeting. In December, 2012, SanDisk announced an investment in Whiptail via SanDisk Ventures, the company’s newly formed strategic investment arm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/13/new-sanddisk-venture-fund-alights-on-whiptail/ )〕 Whiptail’s ''INVICTA'' and ''ACCELA'' storage arrays achieved VMware Ready status.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2012-12-04/aN1OUvt5ffQE.html )〕 On September 10, 2013, Cisco announced its intent to acquire Whiptail for $415 million, with a plan to incorporate Whiptail's technology within Cisco UCS fabric offerings at a hardware and manageability level.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1261248 )〕 On July 24, 2015, Cisco announced the EoL of Whiptail products, specifically the Invicta Appliance and Scaling System products.〔http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/24/whipped_tails_acquisition_angst_and_attrition/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whiptail (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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