Stealthy Start-Up Pliops

Born in 2017, Pliops is a storage start-up in stealth mode headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, “developing a new NAND storage processor technology enabling the next generation of cloud and data center applications.“

Its technology simplifies the storage stack, thus enabling highly scalable storage and DB solutions with optimal cost, power consumption and performance improvements, according the company adding its storage processor enables over x10 performance and endurance improvement and over 30% system cost reduction for both disaggregated and hyperconverged storage and DB systems.

Main executives:
Uri Beitler, CEO and co-founder, works 8 years at Samsung Israel Research Center (SIRC) ending as algorithm team leader in advanced flash solutions lab in the field of ECC, compression, de-due, signal processing and system architecture for flash memory.

• Moshe Twitto, CTO and co-founder, also comes from Samsung where he was chief scientist from April 2016 to April 2017 exploring new research activities and technological opportunities.
• Aryeh Mergi, chairman and co-founder, who founded M-Systems (acquired by SanDisk) in 1987 and also XtremIO, sold to EMC..
• Mark Mokryn, VP product, who worked for EMC and Broadcom as consultant.
• Avraham Meir, VP R&D, former CTO at Anobit Technologies, in NAND controllers for smartphones and tablets, bought by Apple in 2011 for $390 million and spending some time at Elastifile.
  

The start-up received an unknown amount from investor State Of Mind Ventures.