Company:Agami Systems

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agámi Systems
TypePrivate
IndustryData storage devices
Founded2003
HeadquartersSunnyvale, California
Key people
David Stiles, CEO
Kumar Sreekanti, CTO
ProductsAIS3000, AIS6000
Websitewww.agami.com (defunct)

Agámi Systems, Inc. was a network storage company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Agámi Information Servers (AIS) were marketed to both network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) markets.[1]

The company was founded in April 2003 by Kumar Sreekanti in San Jose, California.[2]

Its first round of venture capital of about $5.5 million included investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (with board member Vinod Khosla), Alta California Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Apex Ventures and Advanced Equities Venture Partners.[2] It was originally called StorAD for its first year, and included intellectual property acquired from failed company Zambeel, which was in a similar market and had been founded in 1999.[3][4]

A second round of financing raised over $25 million in September 2004.[5] Hercules Technology Growth Capital provided $11 million in debt financing in August 2006.[6]

David Stiles joined in 2005 and became chief executive in May 2007,[7] just after chief financial officer Dean Seniff was replaced on April 30.[8]

In March 2007 support for the iSCSI block access protocol was announced.[9]

The company, then located in Sunnyvale, California, filed for raising more capital through 2007, including new investor Duff, Ackerman, and Goodrich.[10]

A third round of $45 million in funding from existing investors was announced in February 2008 during the start of the Great Recession.[11]

The company shut down operations on July 28, 2008. The employees were told of the shutdown at an 11:00 AM meeting, and was made effective two hours later, at 1:00 PM.[12][13] The 80-100 employees of Agami in Sunnyvale and Hyderbad, India were said to be blindsided. Business Insider reports that, "Some employees have tried to send e-mails to an address that the company provided them to request pay, but one employee told the Mercury News that they 'haven't received one response, not one.' "[14]

This led to speculation that the funding announced in February had not actually closed.[15]

By September 2008 Stiles had purchased Agámi assets and used their office space for a new company named Scalable Storage Systems.[7][16]

In October 2008, Ocarina Networks hired Agami Systems India operations and engineering team in Hyderabad.[citation needed]

The AIS6000 series was said to perform at 1 GB/sec and supported 36 terabytes of raw data.

AIS6136 specifications:

  • Chassis Form Factor: 5 EIAU high - 19-inch IEC rack-compliant
  • Maximum disk drives: 48 × SATA drives
  • Disk drive densities: 750 GB
  • Disk Controllers: 2 × 24-port SATA
  • Raw Capacity: 36 TB
  • Processor: 4 × AMD Opteron CPU
  • ECC Memory: 12 GB
  • NVRAM: 2 GB
  • Network Connectivity: 12 × 1 Gigabit/s Ethernet

References

  1. ↑ "About agámi Systems". Company former web site. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080704170756/http://www.agami.com/site/company. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Notice of Sale of Securities". US Securities and Exchange Commission. May 29, 2004. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/04/9999999997-04-024305. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  3. ↑ "From Zambeelians to Chameleons". Byte and Switch. July 22, 2004. Archived from the original on August 25, 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20040825123459/http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=56565. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Zambeel Znuffed Out". Byte and Switch. April 26, 2003. http://www.networkcomputing.com/other/zambeel-znuffed-out/229624361. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  5. ↑ "Notice of Sale of Securities". US Securities and Exchange Commission. September 17, 2004. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/04/9999999997-04-037869. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  6. ↑ "Palo Alto's Hercules provides $11M to Agami". Silicon Valley Business Journal. August 14, 2006. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/08/14/daily2.html. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chris Mellor and Dean Seniff (September 29, 2008). "Scalable Storage rises from agàmi ashes: Dead heron in the forested startup swamp". The Register. https://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2008/09/29/agami-successor/. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  8. ↑ James Rogers (April 30, 2007). "Agami Sorts Cash Issues". Network Computing. http://www.networkcomputing.com/backup-recovery/agami-sorts-cash-issues/229608160. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  9. ↑ "agámi Systems Announces Next Generation Network Attached Storage Solution". Press release. March 12, 2007. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012094551/http://agami.com/site/press-release-3-12-07. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  10. ↑ "Notice of Sale of Securities". Form D (Amended). US Securities and Exchange Commission. November 12, 2007. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/07/9999999997-07-048059. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  11. ↑ agámi Systems (February 15, 2008). "agámi Systems Raises $45 Million in Series C Financing". Press release. Archived from the original on March 4, 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080304024647/http://www.agami.com/site/press-release-02-15-08. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Scott Duke Harris (August 18, 2008). "Promising start-up abruptly shuts down". San Jose Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10238750. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Chris Preimesberger (July 29, 2008). "Agami Systems Shuts Its Doors, Suspends Business". eWeek. http://www.eweek.com/storage-station/agami-systems-shuts-its-doors-suspends-business.html. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  14. ↑ Sridharan, Vasanth. "Valley Start-Up Agami Systems Raises $45 Million, Disappears". https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/valley-start-up-agami-systems-raises-45-million-disappears. 
  15. ↑ Vasanth Sridharan (August 19, 2008). "Valley Start-Up Agami Systems Raises $45 Million, Disappears". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/valley-start-up-agami-systems-raises-45-million-disappears. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 
  16. ↑ Scott Duke Harris (September 24, 2008). "Agami's rebirth as Scalable Storage Systems leaves ex-employees angry". San Jose Mercury News. http://www.mercurynews.com/sports/ci_10549425. Retrieved November 29, 2013. 




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