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Whiptail
Whiptail can refer to: * Fish: ** A common name for Blue grenadier, a species of fish in the genus ''Macruronus'' ** Whiptail catfish, a common name for the genus of fish ''Rineloricaria'' * A wide variety of long-tailed, New World lizard species from several genera in the Teiidae family; also known as racerunners and jungle runners. **'' Ameiva'' - jungle runners **''Aspidoscelis'' - northern whiptails **''Cnemidophorus'' - southern whiptails **'' Kentropyx'' - spurred whiptails * Whiptail (company), a company that builds solid-state data storage systems * Whiptail (plant disorder) * " Whiptail", a 1998 Hugo Award-nominated science fiction short story by Robert Reed * Whiptail (comics), a series of recurring adversaries in the comic book series ''Dynamo 5'' * Whiptail (software), in Unix-like shell scripting, a dialog replacement using Newt A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae. The terrestrial juvenile phase is called an eft. Unlike other members of the fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiptail (company)
Whiptail Technologies LLC, was previously a privately held company that builds Computer data storage, data storage systems out of solid-state drive components. Whiptail designed and commercialized the use of NAND flash memory as a replacement for hard disk drives in large-scale storage systems. The company is named after the whiptail racerunner, a fast lizard species indigenous to the southwestern United States. On October 29, 2013, Whiptail was acquired by Cisco Systems for approximately US $415M. ''Cisco Press Release'' History Headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey, with offices in San Jose, California, and London, United Kingdom, Whiptail was founded in 2009 by Edward T Rebholz CEO and (now CTO) James Candelaria. Early investors included Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital. In January 2012, Series B funding was reported as "more than $10 million." In December 2012, Whiptail announced a $31 million funding round. Ignition Partners led the Series C finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |