INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
As companies increasingly look to find ways to cut costs, Granulate, an early-stage Israeli startup, has come up with a clever way to
optimize infrastructure usage
Today it was rewarded with a tidy $12 million Series A investment.Insight Partners led the round with participation from TLV Partners and
Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners, will be joining the Granulate board under the terms of the agreement
whether on-prem or in the cloud, from between 20% and 80%
This is not insignificant if they can pull this off, especially in the economic maelstrom in which we find ourselves.Asaf Ezra, co-founder
and CEO at Granulate, says the company achieved the efficiency through a lot of studying about how Linux virtual machines work
Over six months of experimentation, they simply moved the bottleneck around until they learned how to take advantage of the way the Linux
wanted to flip this idea on its head and look for repetitiveness, concentrating on one function instead of fair allocation across many
It could also be a container or a pod in Kubernetes
The important thing to remember is that you no longer care about the interactivity and fairness inherent in Linux; instead, you want that
basically optimize all the decision making for that utility function
learning to help understand how the different utility functions work to provide greater optimization to improve performance even more over
experiences and lower infrastructure costs has never been more important, and Granulate has a highly differentiated offering powered by
understands that a product like his could be particularly helpful at the moment
2018 and currently has 20 employees
They plan to double that by the end of 2020.
