Pepperdata offers big-data performance optimization both in the cloud and on premises, automating resource scaling and delivering detailed, correlated real-time application and infrastructure metrics. Its solution helps customers increase throughput on existing infrastructure or use fewer resources, improving ROI and ensuring workloads meet SLAs. Pepperdata positions its automated optimization as more than summary monitoring dashboards by scaling system resources and correlating hundreds of metrics per application. Customers cited in the articles include Autodesk and Royal Bank of Canada. The company plans to accelerate sales, marketing, and product development and to expand into new markets to meet evolving enterprise needs. Pepperdata offers software to optimize Hadoop cluster performance by prioritizing jobs, nudging resource-hungry tasks, and reclaiming unused capacity. The product can be installed in 15–30 minutes and claims 30–50% throughput gains for customers. It analyzes memory and resource usage across clusters to free capacity and enforce service-level priorities. Customers have included early Hadoop adopters and the company has been focusing on verticals such as banking, healthcare and telecommunications. Pepperdata measures sales in licensed nodes and currently reports about 10,000 licensed nodes. The company has around 30 employees, plans to grow to roughly 50 by year-end, and recently opened a northeast office in New York City. Pepperdata provides a software analytics platform for Hadoop that continuously monitors CPU, RAM, network, disk and HDFS usage per task, per node, and for the cluster overall. The platform helps companies run multiple applications and achieve more efficient capacity utilization, predictability, and quality of service for their Hadoop infrastructure. Its solution is already used by large internet and software-as-a-service companies. Founded in 2012 by former Yahoo and Microsoft executives Sean Suchter and Chad Carson, the company is based in Sunnyvale, California. Pepperdata plans to use new financing to accelerate product development and to further build out its sales and marketing organization. The company is hiring.

Total raised

$20M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Apr 2015