When we ask our customers "Would you recommend Tintri to a friend or colleague?" an astonishingly large number say yes ( Read more... )

The year-end press release from Tintri by the numbers:

* 3 new models, which accounted for 75% of our Q4 revenue
* 5 of the Fortune 15 companies are customers
* 11 million-dollar accounts
* 30PB of virtual machines running on Tintri
* $75m in new funding
* >100% year-over-year growth
* >1500 systems in the field

When a large company buys a small company, it typically doesn't have to disclose details of the acquisition price, even in its quarterly reports. This is because the small company's value is not "material" to the large company's operations. (I don't know where the dividing line is, but for a billion-dollar company it can be quite large ( Read more... )

The Tintri VMstore was one of 33 winners selected by Infoworld for their 2015 Technology of the Year. It's nice to get some mainstream(-ish) recognition and be put in the same category as cool consumer tech like the iPhone 6 and hot software technologies like Neo4j or Apache Storm. There were just four pieces of enterprise hardware on the list: ( Read more... )

Gartner is a well-known research and advisory firm in information technology. Their most popular reports use Gartner's "magic quadrant" methodology to compare firms based on their ability to execute and vision for the technology ( Read more... )

At VMworld I heard this idea a couple times, once from an analyst and once from somebody with interest in vVols:

With per-VM controls, an administrator could turn off compression and deduplication for VMs that don't benefit from it, and thus improve overall system performance.
In my mind, this is something that "sounds good" but falls apart based ( Read more... )

Tintri switched to a February-based fiscal year so we just finished the second quarter of fiscal 2015. We had the last all-hands meeting in our old office, and are scheduled to move on August 15th to our new location (just two buildings away, still on Ravendale Drive in Mountain View ( Read more... )

Tintri made a couple big announcements today. We've gone through a rebranding and will position the Tintri VMstore as "smart storage that sees, learns, and adapts". We have a new logo and color scheme--- everybody else was also using blue and green, so we picked red ( Read more... )

Tintri announced its $75m series E round of funding today. The round was led by Insight Venture Partners. This round will let us continue to expand the team, and puts us in good shape for a 2015 IPO ( Read more... )

So, Seth Levine of Foundry Group graciously agreed to come speak to a bunch of Minnesota entrepreneurs in a Tech.MN-sponsored event on "building entrepreneurial communities". (He's a VC and Foundry recently made their first investment in Minnesota ( Read more... )