Tegile Systems

About Tegile Systems

Tegile Systems, founded in 2010 by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Alok Agrawal, and Justin Cheen, established itself as a key player in the enterprise data storage market. The company was headquartered in Newark, California, and specialized in providing all-flash and hybrid storage arrays engineered for database applications, data virtualization, and file management. The founding team brought significant industry experience; CEO Rohit Kshetrapal previously held roles at Cisco and KPMG Consulting, while CTO Rajesh Nair had experience at Perfigo, Inc.

Tegile's business model centered on the manufacturing and sale of these high-performance storage solutions to enterprise clients. The company addressed the growing demand in data centers for scalable architectures that offer high performance and economic efficiency for big data and fast data applications. Tegile's product lineup was built around its IntelliFlash architecture, which intelligently managed data placement across different storage media to optimize performance and cost. This architecture supported both all-flash arrays for maximum speed and hybrid arrays that combined flash with traditional hard disks for a balance of performance and capacity. Their offerings included the T-Series unified arrays, IntelliFlash HD, and the high-performance N-Series all-NVMe arrays.

The company's journey included significant financial backing, raising approximately $178 million from investors such as Meritech Capital Partners, August Capital, and Capricorn Investment Group. A pivotal moment came in August 2017, when Western Digital, already a strategic partner and investor, announced its acquisition of Tegile. This move integrated Tegile into Western Digital's Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit, aiming to combine Tegile's array technology with Western Digital's component manufacturing scale. Following the acquisition, the Tegile brand was transitioned to IntelliFlash. The journey continued in September 2019 when Western Digital sold the IntelliFlash business to DataDirect Networks (DDN), further integrating the technology into a broader portfolio of high-performance computing and data management solutions.