Two More Start-Ups in Storage

1/ Unknown Start-Up Innogrit With Former Marvell Executives

We just discovered Innogrit Corp., a new storage start-up born in 2017 and based in San Jose, CA.

The company is set out to solve the data storage and data transport problem in AI and other big data applications through IC and system solutions. It developed technologies that reduce network traffic, offload host CPU’s workload, enhance overall system performance and unleash the true potential of AI.

The young firm offers two products:

• a data controller that optimizes data storage and transportation, lowering TCO for distributed storage system, and
• intelligent storage system solution to reduce network traffic and improve overall data processing efficiency.

CEO is Dr. David Chen, former corporate VP and GM of SSD business unit at Marvell. Prior to joining this company in 2010, he held engineering and management positions at Linear Technology, provider of standard high performance analog ICs. He is member of the US-China Green Energy Council.

CTO is Dr. Zining Wu who was CTO of Marvell for more than 17 years.

2/ Anacode Labs, Born in 2015, but in Stealth Mode

It’s the first time we have heard about start-up named Anacode Labs, Inc., based in Aptos Hills, CA, born in June 2015 but continuing to be in stealth mode.

The firm is dedicated to reducing storage and bandwidth bottlenecks, offering consulting and data analysis services, along with a small but powerful set of standard encoding products for both software and hardware. More precisely, it will sell software subscription reducing AWS storage costs. Anacode tCS (transparent Compressed Storage) is now in beta testing for AWS storage users. Changing one URL made AWS storage 30% faster and cheaper.

It was founded by CEO Albert William (Al) Wegener, former principal architect at Amazon Lab126, and CTO, chairman and founder of Samplify Systems, provider of IP solutions which solve I/O, storage, and memory bandwidth bottlenecks in the computing, consumer, and mobile device markets, which operated from 2006 until 2014. He is a signal compression expert being also four years at Texas Instruments in wireless technology.

Two products are listed on firm’s web site:

• Cobra, a fast software solution that delivers modest to moderate encoding benefitsViper,
• for those who need massive and mighty encoding benefits, at Gb/s, for FPGA or SoC

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2013.06.20 | Press Release