Big news for ‘Big Data’ company Clustrix today. Clustrix, which was initially financed by Y Combinator back in 2006 and went on to raise $12 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, USVP and ATA Ventures, has gotten to a point where it apparently has enough klout to convince a former top Hewlett-packard (HP) executive to join the venture as its new leader.
Clustrix this morning announced that it has appointed Robin Purohit as president and CEO.
At HP, Purohit was a vice president and general manager of the company’s $3 billion portfolio of IT management, information management, and application security products.
Purohit has more than 20 acquisitions under his belt, too, and has been an executive leader for these three major exits: CANSTAR Communications to HP (1994), VERITAS to Symantec (2005) and Mercury to HP (2007).
Purohit will succeed Clustrix co-founder Paul Mikesell, who will stay on as VP of Strategy and Technology.
Based in San Francisco with offices in Seattle and London, Clustrix has developed a database appliance that solves database scalability challenges for the ‘newSQL’ market. You can learn more about its product here and here.
Clustrix has built a NewSQL database with no limits. Our appliances have no limits to database size, no limits to table size, no limits to query complexity, and no limits to performance. With Clustrix you get dynamic online scaling, seamless fault tolerance, full relational and transactional capabilities. All in a single instance database that is a drop-in replacement for your MySQL infrastructure. Clustrix headquarters are located in San Francisco, California with branch offices in Seattle and London. The company is...
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