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Kaminario Named a Visionary in Gartner–s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays

BOSTON, MA — (Marketwired) — 07/02/15 — , the leading all-flash storage array provider for mid-range enterprises, today announced it has been named a Visionary in Gartner–s 2015 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays*. The second-annual Magic Quadrant for SSAs is based on detailed market research of 13 solid-state array vendors, evaluated on their ability to execute in the market and their completeness of vision. Kaminario improved its position in “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision” from last year–s report, moving up the Visionaries quadrant towards the Leaders category. Kaminario–s Magic Quadrant results follow the , focused on innovation and expansion, and significant .

“Since our founding, we–ve been dedicated to disrupting the storage industry by transforming data center economics and our customers– businesses with our flexible, resilient and cost-efficient all-flash array,” said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. “Kaminario–s success is reflected in our rapidly growing and satisfied customer base, significant investor confidence and further EMEA expansion — all of which we feel has improved our position in this year–s Magic Quadrant.”

Kaminario–s K2 all-flash array was also analyzed by Gartner in its June 25 Critical Capabilities for Solid-State Arrays report, which evaluated 11 SSAs across six use cases to define durability, flexibility and performance. The report–s findings and analysis also incorporated feedback from a handful of customers using each SSA. Its K2 product scored among the top three in all use cases, including: overall use case (3.52 out of 5), online transaction processing (3.52 out of 5), server virtualization (3.48 out of 5), virtual desktop infrastructure (3.54 out of 5), high-performance computing (3.56 out of 5) and analytics (3.54 out of 5).

The Gartner reports come at the heels of recent significant company momentum since Kaminario launched v5 of its K2 in Spring 2014, including:

Closing in 2014, and more than 300% year-on-year growth in bookings in Q1 2015;

Raising $68 million in Series E for a total of $143 million in overall funding;

Recently naming to its Board of Directors and to its Advisory Board;

Announcing the launch of Kaminario–s highly differentiated and Gartner noted partnership program;

Significant sales, personnel and market expansion in the Americas and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner–s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. For more information about Gartner, visit .

*Gartner Inc.; “Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays”; Valdis Filks, Joseph Unsworth, Arun Chandrasekaran; June 23, 2015.

Kaminario is the leading provider of enterprise-class all-flash storage, delivering unparalleled cost efficiency, with an average price of $2/GB usable and the industry–s only guaranteed effective capacity. Built from the ground up to take advantage of the most modern flash SSD capabilities, Kaminario K2 is the only product to feature a true scale-out and scale-up architecture that allows organizations to grow capacity and performance based on their needs. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Yoqneam, Israel, Silicon Valley and New York City, and backed by Sequoia, Pitango, Globespan, Tenaya, Silicon Valley Bank and others. For more information, visit .

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