CTO Just Leaving Kaminario to Join VAST Data

Shachar Fienblit updated his LinkedIn page to announce publicly that he left Kaminario last month and joined VAST data, storage company in stealth mode, also recruiting this year senior software engineer Avi Goren coming from Reduxio and Alon Horev with same position who worked at XIV and founded DigiData.

VAST data was launched in 2016 by Renen Hallak who led the architecture and development of the all-flash array at XtremIO, from inception to over a billion dollars in revenue while acting as VP R&D and leading a team of over 200 engineers of the company finally acquired by EMC.

We reported on December 16, 2016, that Jeff Denworth has left as well CTERA to join the same company a few weeks before him. VAST data may be the new data management gem… we’ll see but at least enough interesting to recruit such talents.

It’s quite a surprise to discover that Fienblit has left Kaminario after eight years, more recently CTO and before that VP of engineering. We have met the company twice in June 2016 in California and in November in Yokneam, Israel and we were impressed by the company both in term of revenue expectations and future developments plan. The company also announced recently a new VC round for a total of $218 million to fuel and support this growth.

As mentioned, Fienblit has changed his LinkedIn page but Kaminario continues to list him on the leadership page on last February 3 (see below in the middle):

Fienblit joined Kaminario in April 2009 as VP of engineering and was instrumental for building the K2 all-flash array. He then moved as CTO in June 2015. Before that, he was a key archiect at IBM storage division from 2000 to 2008 working on advanced copy functions for IBM’s DS family of storage products and the leading architect in IBM Haifa storage development lab. He holds a B.Sc. in computer science from Haifa University, and holds over 50 patents in the areas of computer system, disaster recovery and reliable data storage design.