INFINIDAT

Infinidat, an Israeli-American data storage company, was established in 2011 by esteemed storage industry pioneer Moshe Yanai. With a career spanning decades, Yanai is a recognized figure in the storage sector, credited with developing the EMC Symmetrix in the 1990s and founding XIV, which was later acquired by IBM. His extensive background in creating resilient and scalable storage architectures provided the foundation for Infinidat's mission to address the challenges of multi-petabyte scale data management. The company secured significant funding, including a $150 million Series B round in 2015 that pushed its valuation to $1.2 billion, and a $95 million Series C in 2017, increasing its valuation to $1.6 billion, with investors like TPG Growth and Goldman Sachs. In January 2025, it was announced that Lenovo would acquire the company.

Infinidat operates in the enterprise data storage market, serving large-scale enterprises across various sectors, including financial services, healthcare, telecoms, and cloud service providers. Its business model revolves around selling high-capacity storage solutions that prioritize performance, reliability, and a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The company offers flexible consumption models, including traditional upfront purchases, a Capacity on Demand model where customers only pay for the capacity they use, and a pay-per-use FLX program. A key differentiator is its "white glove" all-inclusive service, which provides a dedicated technical advisor and premium support at no extra charge.

The core of Infinidat's offering is a software-defined storage architecture that leverages commodity hardware. Its flagship product line, InfiniBox, is a unified storage platform that delivers high performance and guaranteed 100% availability for mixed application workloads. This is achieved through its InfuzeOS operating system and a deep learning Neural Cache that optimizes data placement across storage tiers. The portfolio includes the InfiniBox SSA, an all-flash array delivering latency as low as 35 microseconds for the most demanding applications, and InfiniGuard, a modern data protection appliance for backup and disaster recovery. A central feature across the portfolio is InfiniSafe®, a comprehensive cyber resilience technology offering immutable snapshots, logical air-gapping, a fenced forensic environment for analysis, and near-instantaneous recovery from cyberattacks.

Keywords: enterprise storage, data storage solutions, petabyte scale, Moshe Yanai, software-defined storage, hybrid storage, all-flash array, cyber resilience, InfiniBox, InfiniGuard, InfiniSafe, data protection, business continuity, disaster recovery, low latency storage, TCO, storage consolidation, cloud storage, virtualized environments, mainframe storage