KMesh Silently Acquired by AWS

KMesh is no longer responding, KMesh.io website is down and their company LinkedIn page says they got acquired.

To confirm that, we discovered that several key members of the company work now for AWS. Two co-founders, Vinay Gaonkar now works for EC2 group and Michael Nishimoto is senior Lustre software engineer in the FSx for Lustre group. Jeff Kim, who was CEO of KMesh, removed this role from his LinkedIn profile, being currently EIR at Plug and Play Tech Center. Crunchbase continues to display his role and the press release mentioned below as well.

KMesh supports also Azure and GCP clouds but AWS was just the most rapid to detect and acquire the company to feed their FSx for Lustre solution.

KMesh promises were impressive claiming to offer a SaaS Multi-Cloud Data Orchestration dedicated to Lustre. It was one year ago when they shared the news. As KMesh leveraged Lustre parallel data engine, the product was able to transfer data at a significant speed needed to move data across Lustre instances.

Even if KMesh web site is not accessible, we found a YouTube video explaining their solution. We discovered 2 interesting presentations (1 and 2) with details of the solution.

KMesh supports auto-provisioning, data tiering, compression and de-dupe, multi-cloud snapshots and virtual copies.

So we expect to see KMesh features into a coming AWS FSx for Lustre iteration. It confirms that HPC on Steroids is also a serious axis for cloud providers.