Comments on: Agami raising $50 million — for yet another storage company

By: Agami Systems takes $45M for network storage » VentureBeat

Agami Systems takes $45M for network storage » VentureBeat — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:44:47 +0000

[...] Agami, a Sunnyvale-based storage company, has raised a further $45 million in funding, coming near to the $50 million we reported the might be seeking in November. [...]

By: gaic

gaic — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:57:16 +0000

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By: Bob Tucker

Bob Tucker — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:58:48 +0000

What a total waste – these guys should just close up shop. When Agami (Zambeel) was started there wasn’t much in the lower cost NAS segment (aka replication, snapshots, NFS, CIFS) – so possibly they had a business case. But now you can now get a much better product for free from Sun Microsystems using OpenSolaris and ZFS. Sun also just freely released their CIFS server.

By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:17:09 +0000

$2,995 per terabyte?

I bet Google does 1 Terabyte of storage, reliable storage using cheap SATA arrays.

Nowadays you can buy yourself (retail price) $100 500Gb hdds. Say you create an array of 4 disks like this you got 2Tb for $400.

If you replicate that 2 times more, that’s $1200 for redundant 2Tb of storage, plug all of that with Sata over ethernet and you got cheap reliable storage.

Now think of buying thousands of these disks in bulk, the price goes down considerably.

By: recoveringvc

recoveringvc — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:37:08 +0000

This is the restructured Zambeel that had already raised a boatload of venture funding earlier this decade.

By: Private Equity HUB - From the Filings...

Private Equity HUB - From the Filings... — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:11:26 +0000

[...] Alta Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. [Update: VentureBeat reports that the deal is not yet closed. Reg filing indicates that more than $41m is already called down, [...]