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InfluxData Reaches 300 Customer Milestone

Ruth Busbee (InfluxData) — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:27:43 -0700

Movement to Modern Time Series Platform Accelerates Growth

San Francisco—June 28, 2017—InfluxData, the modern open source platform built from the ground up for metrics and events, is excited to celebrate 300 customers using InfluxData since its release nine months ago. InfluxData has rapidly built its developer and customer base across industries—including manufacturing, financial services, energy, and telecommunications—by delivering the fastest growing Time Series Platform that enables customers to derive better business insights, data-driven real-time actions, and a consolidated single view of all their infrastructure, from applications to microservices, and from systems to sensors.

“Our amazing customer growth is driven by the business imperative to instrument and monitor everything in real time with nanosecond precision,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData. ”We are seeing the acceleration in the market from general purpose databases to purpose-built, modern Time Series Platforms for metrics and events.”

Companies like Cisco, Coupa, IBM, LineMetrics, Nordstrom, Tesla and many others have selected InfluxData as their modern data platform for metrics and events. InfluxData is pioneering the shift to this modern Time Series Platform and making it possible for customers become data-driven and take on digital transformation initiatives.

Supporting Customer Quotes

BBOXX, who develops and manufactures products to provide affordable, clean solar energy to off-grid communities in the developing world, used InfluxData to become a data-driven business. "The speed, reliability, and scalability of InfluxDB Cloud allow us to store, query and analyze data in real-time from every one of our 70,000 units worldwide," said Mansoor Hamayun, CEO, BBOXX.
Vonage provides a cloud communications platform helping organizations worldwide build a more personal relationship with every customer or prospect. "InfluxData provides deep insight into our systems, applications, and services," said Kulvinder Singh, Engineering Manager at Vonage. "We detect, investigate and resolve issues before they have a chance of becoming customer affecting and easily instrument new features for function, performance and business intelligence. These capabilities enable us to maintain high availability with high feature velocity. InfluxData has made this as fun as it gets—that's hard, chapeau!"
tado°, a company that is focused on home climate control, uses InfluxDB Cloud to gather analytics data collected from its hundreds of thousands of units across the globe, to power their smartphone apps which helps their customers understand their energy usage and determine their ideal setting. "InfluxDB has been great for our environment because it seemed to be built for our specific use case," said Michal Knizek, Head of Server Development.

About InfluxData

InfluxData, the creator of InfluxDB, delivers a modern open source platform built from the ground up for metrics and events (time series data). Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData has more than 300 customers including Autodesk, Cisco, eBay, and SolarCity. Visit influxdata.com. Twitter: @influxdb.

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Ruth Busbee, InfluxData

510-910-6732 | busbee@influxdb.com

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InfluxData Simplifies IoT and DevOps Monitoring with Enhanced Visualization Features

Ruth Busbee (InfluxData) — Tue, 09 May 2017 06:00:58 -0700

San Francisco—May 9, 2017—InfluxData, the modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for metrics and events, is excited to announce a common administrative UI and visualization experience across the InfluxDB Enterprise and Open Source Platforms to empower developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster and easier.

“Traditional monitoring solutions are siloed and being stretched to breaking point because they can’t handle the diversity and volume of metrics and events,” said Evan Kaplan, CEO, InfluxData. “We fundamentally believe that a unified monitoring layer purpose-built for all metrics and events, from sensors to microservices, is key to identifying patterns, controlling complex systems, and turning insight into action.”

The InfluxData platform is built on the open source projects - Telegraf, InfluxDB, Chronograf, and Kapacitor, often referred to as the TICK stack.

With this release, Chronograf 1.3.0 now:

Delivers rapid time to value for developers using Telegraf for metrics and events collection through pre-built visualizations for monitoring and data exploration
Provides easy-to-use administrative capabilities including database creation and user management for InfluxDB
Simplifies creation of custom alerting providing anomaly detection, and action frameworks for faster business value leveraging capabilities of Kapacitor
Implements support for both open source TICK projects and InfluxDB Enterprise

“Platform administrators will love how easily they can set up databases, user profiles and alerting capabilities through a highly optimized user experience,” said Tim Hall, VP of Products, InfluxData. “This is a continuation of our promise to build an application that’s easy to learn and quick to implement.”

Spiio, the leader in understanding greenery performance from data analytics, uses InfluxData to power a digital remote irrigation monitoring solution.

“We are making decisions based on the information we get from our sensors,” said Chris Thorup, Co-Founder, Spiio. “With Chronograf visualizing the information of the TICK stack, we are able to easily see the data that allows us to monitor our plants for greener cities.”

About InfluxData InfluxData, the creators of InfluxDB, delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for metrics and events (time series data). Whether the data comes from humans, sensors, or machines, InfluxData empowers developers to build next-generation monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications faster, easier, and to scale delivering real business value quickly. Based in San Francisco, InfluxData customers include Autodesk, Cisco, eBay, and SolarCity. Visit influxdata.com. Twitter: @influxdb.

Editorial Contact Ruth Busbee, InfluxData 510-910-6732 | busbee@influxdb.com

InfluxData Secures $16M Series B Financing Led by Battery Ventures Amid New Push to Measure IoT and Real-Time Metrics Data

Ruth Busbee (InfluxData) — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:00:51 -0700

Company’s Open-Source, Time Series Data & Metrics Platform and Enterprise Product Is Now Generally Available; Rise of DevOps, Sensor Data Driving Market

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/21/16 — InfluxData, creator of InfluxDB and the leading open-source platform for managing the increasing volume of “time-series” data, today announced it has secured $16 million in Series B financing led by global investment firm Battery Ventures. InfluxData’s existing investors Mayfield, Trinity Ventures and Bloomberg Beta also participated. As part of the financing, Battery Ventures General Partner Dharmesh Thakker will join InfluxData’s board.

The funding comes on the heels of InfluxData’s release earlier this month of the 1.0 version of its open-source, time-series data platform, along with the general availability of its commercial clustering product, InfluxDB Enterprise.

InfluxData’s data platform is known as the “TICK” stack — named for the four software components that collect, store, visualize and process time-series data, which is data that is measured over time. Examples of time-series data include readings from sensors tied to the “Internet of Things” (IoT), data generated by real-time analytics — such as those derived from financial markets — as well as data created by cloud and container operations that need to be constantly monitored.

InfluxData’s products are already in use at companies including Cisco, eBay, AXA, Solar City, Telefonica and others. The company will use the funds to increase its investment in sales and marketing and to expand product development to better serve its community members and enterprise customers with better data solutions.

Time-series has emerged as a discrete data-management category, different than traditional relational database-management systems offered by vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft and second-generation NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra. According to DB-Engines, which ranks the popularity of data-management technologies, time-series was the fastest growing data-management category in the last 12 months, with InfluxData as the leader.

“At Influx we are proud to pioneer this new data-management category — and to provide a platform that developers now recognize as the fastest and most powerful way to address their monitoring and metrics needs,” said Evan Kaplan, chief executive of InfluxData. “From tracking trading activity in a market, to analyzing a company’s daily sales performance or managing the deluge of data thrown off by a smart thermostat or car sensor, the use cases for a time-series data management are enormous and accelerating rapidly.” Kaplan was previously the CEO of Wi-Fi company iPass and the CEO and founder of Aventail, the pioneer of SSL-based virtual private networks.

“InfluxData has created a thriving, rapidly expanding open-source community — which it knows how to monetize — and the company already has a long list of brand-name customers,” said Dharmesh Thakker, general partner at Battery Ventures. “As IoT and DevOps go mainstream, the market for InfluxData’s product will only expand. We are thrilled to partner with the InfluxData team.”

In addition to the new round of funding, this month InfluxData launched the 1.0 version of its flagship open-source project, InfluxDB, and the rest of the TICK stack, the fastest-growing, time-series database platform in the market with over 300 contributors and 35,000 active deployments. The software elements of the stack are Telegraf (T), which collects time-series data and loads it into InfluxDB; InfluxDB (I), which stores data; Chronograph©, which visualizes the data; and Kapacitor (K), which processes data so users can see relevant alerts and analyze it in real-time.

In addition, InfluxData launched the 1.0 version of its commercial offering, InfluxDB Enterprise, which reduces the time it takes to deploy and scale an end-to-end time-series data platform. InfluxDB Enterprise is built for distributed environments and runs on-premise or in the cloud.

“Vonage uses InfluxDB, hosted on the InfluxDB Cloud service, to gain deep visibility into our infrastructure,” said Matt Jones, SVP DevOps at Vonage, which makes call-center and sales software. “InfluxDB’s high-performance and time-series specific capabilities have helped us maintain the highest quality of service to our customers.”

About InfluxData

InfluxData is the company behind InfluxDB and the TICK stack, the first open source platform designed from the ground up to manage time-series data at scale. Time-series is the dominate type of data found in the vast majority of IoT/sensor, real-time analytics and custom monitoring use cases. The TICK stack contains everything an organization needs to collect, store, visualize and alert on time-series data when performance, availability and security are of utmost importance. InfluxData is a Y Combinator success story, backed by Trinity Ventures, Mayfield, Bloomberg Beta and Battery Ventures. For more information visit: www.influxdata.com.

About Battery Ventures

Battery strives to invest in cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, web infrastructure, consumer Internet, mobile and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to private equity and invests globally from offices in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area and Israel. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures, visit our website at www.battery.com and find a full list of Battery’s portfolio companies here.