Infinidat is a modern, growing storage systems supplier with very interesting high-performance products. A private company head-quartered in Herzliya, Israel with its US business based in Waltham, MA., it was founded by Moshe Yanai in 2011 – a key inventor of storage products at EMC and XIV (an object storage supplier acquired by IBM in 2008). I’m grateful to its senior executives for spending time with me to make this assessment.
The Figure above shows Infinidat’s products and services and the applications it addresses. In particular:

• InfiniBox is a hybrid array that utilizes flash and HDDs;
• InfiniBox SSA is an all-flash array – in September 2023 it announced the new SSA II (4316T), doubling the maximum effective capacity to 6.6PB; for the first time the company is allowing its customers to purchase and upgrade over time from 60% or 80% populated systems. All these systems run at a latency as low as 35 microseconds, irrespective of installed capacity;
• InfiniGuard is its secondary storage architecture and purpose-built backup appliance;
• Enterprise Data Services.

All Infinidat’s solutions run its InFuzeOS operating system, including its SSA Express software, which allows customers to add up to 320TB of all flash storage to almost all existing Infinidat boxes (making them hybrid arrays in the process). This is for those who want to run a single, or small set of performance-sensitive workloads and manage them within Infinidat’s existing management software.
InfuzeOS (now updated to version 7.3) includes the company’s Neural Cache, Infinisafe, InfiniOps, InfiniVerse and SSA Express software – the foundation of the company’s Enterprise data services including its Autonomous Automation ‘set it and forget it’ IT operations model. It’s the basis of the company’s guarantees for performance and availability, as well as its InfiniSafe cyber resilience and recovery services.
Unlike IBM in the storage systems and Cisco in the network markets, Infinidat’s approach is entirely ‘software defined’, in the sense that it develops no custom hardware, such as most storage companies, and only uses industry standard off-the-shelf components that run the InfuzeOS.. InfuzeOS is also available as a Cloud Edition via Amazon EC2 (although cloud users won’t benefit from Infinidat’s impressive performance guarantees) as well as in-built in all of its storage arrays.

Infinidat sells its offerings mostly to large corporations (such as the Fortune Global 500) and cloud suppliers – its public reference accounts include Petco, Silicon Sky, Pulsant, Whipcord, InetU and FirstNet. It has also fitted and authorized its solutions for use with standard security, backup, archiving and recovery suppliers, such as IBM, Veeam, Commvault and Veritas.

Infinidat is currently a smaller player in the storage systems market, where Dell is the leader (see my Figure above – Infinidat’s revenues are part of the ‘Others’). Nevertheless, it is a technical leader and is relatively unencumbered by the need to support decades of older equipment in its customer base. I expect to see it feature more strongly in the future.