Zaloni
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Ben Sharma and Bijoy Bora |
| Headquarters | Durham, North Carolina |
| Products | Data analytics software |
Zaloni is a privately owned, software, and services company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, United States with offices in Guwahati, Assam,
India and Bangalore, Karnataka, India. provides DataOps software for big data scale-out architectures, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. They also offer additional add-ons for master data management and professional services.
History
[edit]The company was founded in 2007 by Ben Sharma and Bijoy Bora as a data management company.[1] After 5 years of working within the industry, Zaloni released its first software product, the Bedrock Data Lake Management platform. In October 2015, the company released Mica, their first self-service data preparation platform.[2] Mica was listed in the Gartner Market Guide for Self-Service Data Preparation (August 25, 2016), showing very robust capabilities among products from over 36 products in self-service data preparation.[3] As of March 2020, the Zaloni Data Platform, which had been created from the merging of Mica and Bedrock, has been renamed the Arena software platform.[4]
In August 2022, Truist Financial bought the Arena platform and other assets. Sharma and most other senior management would become part of the Truist Enterprise Data Office. Zaloni would continue to operate from Raleigh, North Carolina, with 20 employees in that location.[5]
Technology
[edit]The Arena software platform is created in such a way that it is storage agnostic. Whether the data is stored on-premises, cloud, multicloud, or hybrid, it can be ingested into the platform to be accessed by governed data users throughout the organization.[citation needed]
Zaloni's Arena platform is based on a cloud data architecture written by Ben Sharma, called EndZone Governance. This architecture involves four zones that data travels through from ingestion to consumption. These zones are Transient Landing, Raw, Trusted, and Refined. The platform includes a metadata catalog, workflows for data quality, data preparation, and data collaboration,[6] along with self-service data consumption that delivers data to sandboxes for business tools and applications.[citation needed]
Funding
[edit]On March 7, 2016, Zaloni announced its Series A financing by Sierra Ventures & Baird Capital.[7] As part of the transaction, Mark Fernandes, managing director of Sierra Ventures, joined Zaloni's board of directors.[8] In 2018, Zaloni received a $1.5 million debt offering[9] and in 2020 received a $6 million credit facility from Epresso Capital.[10] As of 2021, the company had raised $7.5 million.[11]
Partnerships
[edit]On September 8, 2016, NetApp announced a partnership with Zaloni on a mid-tier storage for complete lifecycle management of the data lake.[12]
Zaloni is also an Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure approved partner.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Company Overview of Zaloni Inc". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ Betsy Amy-Vogt (29 September 2015). "Exclusive: Zaloni launches Mica to automate "data wrangling" process". New York, NY. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Zaloni's Mica on the Radar". JGP.net. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Zaloni Data Platform 5.0 Sets New High Bar for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Data Operations, Management, and Governance". prnewswire.com. 26 June 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ Craver, Richard (22 August 2022). "Truist expands artificial intelligence reach by buying Zaloni platform". Winston-Salem Journal.
- ^ "arena overview". Zaloni. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
- ^ David Ranii (7 March 2016). "Durham startup Zaloni raises $7.5 million". News & Observer. Durham, NC. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Funding Snapshot: Data Lake Manager Zaloni Captures $7.5M Series A". 7 March 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ Allan Maurer. "Durham-based data lake management firm Zaloni lands $1.5M in debt offering". WRALtechwire.com. WRAL Techwire. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
- ^ Espresso Capital extends $6 million facility to Zaloni, Espresso Capital, October 9, 2020, retrieved August 21, 2021
- ^ "Zaloni". VB Profiles. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ Larry Dignan (8 September 2016). "NetApp launches mid-tier system for data lakes, partners with Zaloni". ZDNet. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "Zaloni and AWS". Retrieved 21 May 2018.