KALEAO today announced that it has become
Bamboo Systems, a provider of transformative ARM server architecture designed to
power the next generation of sustainable data centers. With a new management
team in place, Bamboo Systems is poised to introduce its radically different
approach to servers in a market with rapidly evolving requirements.
The company has closed a
pre-Series A funding round led by Seraphim Capital. The
new funding will be used to bring to market the
only server designed to give hyperscale performance with ten times the density
of today's Intel-based servers.
The company's new management
team is made up of industry leaders including:
- Tony Craythorne, CEO, who has over 25 years of
experience leading high growth companies in USA, Europe and Asia. Most
recently he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Komprise where
under his leadership sales grew twentyfold over the course of one
year. Previously, Tony has held executive positions at Nexsan,
Hitachi Data Systems, and Brocade.
- Professor John Goodacre, co-founder
and Bamboo System's Chief Scientific Officer who possesses recognized
expertise in the computer science community. John was formerly Director of
Technology and Systems at ARM Ltd., and prior to that, a group program
manager at Microsoft.
- Stewart Gallacher, COO, has over 20 years of
experience in industrial operations, and most recently was Vice President
of Operations with Nexsan.
- Dr. Geoff Barrall, Executive Chairman, who has
over 20 years of experience in the data storage and server markets. He is
the founder and CEO of five successful companies including BlueArc, Drobo
and Connected Data and has also served on the boards of some of the most
recognized names in the industry including Imation, Nexsan and Tacit
Networks. Geoff is currently CTO at Hitachi Vantara.
Data
center power consumption is becoming a global concern, demanding over 2% of the
world's produced power and generating 2% of the world's greenhouse gas
emissions. The high compute demands of machine learning and artificial
intelligence are pushing data centers to expand exponentially with power
consumption predicted to grow 5x in the next five years.
"The future of the data
center lies in the development of nimble solutions that possess the
power to achieve results yet are also cognizant of the environmental impacts
they produce," said James Bruegger, Managing Partner, Seraphim Capital, who led
the investment round. "As a specialist Space Tech-focused fund, at Seraphim we
are investing into some of the most data-hungry companies on the planet. Finding
a way to reduce the cost of these companies' compute and storage demands has
become a pressing issue. With its powerful, compact, and energy-conscious
design, we believe that Bamboo Systems' revolutionary new ARM-based servers
will have a huge impact both in Space Tech and the wider $80 billion server
market. We believe Bamboo Systems is one of the first technological harbingers
of the paradigm shift we are about to see in the power consumption of the data
center."
The Bamboo Systems server
architecture uses ARM processors in a dense configuration to deliver a massive
reduction in power consumption, using one quarter of the power of an equivalent
Intel-based system. This new architecture maximizes the performance of modern
application design while providing ten times the density of today's servers, at
one third the cost.
"Bamboo Systems and its new
management team are dedicated to changing the future of data center design. ARM
has become the architecture of choice for every industry that faces power challenges
and we have created a revolutionary server design that brings the energy
efficiency, compactness and the scalability of mobile ARM to the data center,"
said Tony Craythorne, CEO, Bamboo Systems.
"The world's power grids cannot support the data centers planned for the next
five years without a dramatic shift in server design, and Bamboo Systems will
lead the industry in meeting this market
challenge."