In this special guest feature, Stanley Zaffos, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at Infinidat, discusses how IT and business leaders across industries all face the same challenge

Infinidat, the high-end storage array maker, has completed a D-round of funding with existing investors, but it is not saying how much it raised. Prior to this round, the company has raised $325m in three slugs since 2010.

TPG and Goldman Sachs are leading a new funding round that will enable Infinidat (www.infinidat.com) to accelerate customer-centric growth plans led by new management structure.

With many people still working at home, data centers that enable the cloud are playing an important role in making work possible and enabling much of the current world’s economy.

Infinidat Ltd. secured an additional investment round from its existing investors – TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing, Claridge Investment Ltd., Ion Investors and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat – reinforcing its investors’ commitment to the company.

Enterprise data storage Infinidat Ltd. today announced it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding. The Series D round came from existing investors TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Claridge Israel, ION Crossover Partners and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat.

Three startups aim to revolutionise and rescue the on-premises storage array from the twin assaults of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and the public clouds. They are Infinidat, StorONE and VAST Data and each company is gaining enterprise customers who agree that their technology supersedes all-flash arrays in marrying capacity scaling and performance.

Infinidat has added NVMe-oF support to its storage array operating system, in a move intended to preserve its speed advantage over all-flash rivals.

The big data ecosystem has come out strong to help combat the global coronavirus pandemic by announcing new products and services to help fight COVID-19. In this article, I’ve listed a number of the recent announcements along these lines. Kudos to all the vendors listed below, you may just make an important difference in getting the world past these trying times!

Flash vendors, under pressure to differentiate, are looking to stand out through consumption models, management-experience features and software.