UPDATED 07:00 EDT / AUGUST 11 2015

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Talena promises “universal data availability” on Hadoop

Big Data availability management startup Talena Inc. has emerged from stealth on the back of a $12 million funding round, which will be used to advance its application recovery and data management solutions. The round was led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Intel Capital, ONSET Ventures and Wipro Ventures, and will see Canaan’s Deepak Kamra and ONSET’s Shomit Ghose take a seat at the firm’s board.

Talena has some very big plans to provide what it believes will be crucial Big Data availability services for organizations in the near future. Founded by former EMC executive Nitin Donde and Hortonworks Inc. executive Hari Mankude, Talena says the rapid adoption of Big Data platforms like Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases like Cassandra has created an urgent need for comprehensive systems that can manage these environments and the data held within them, while ensuring maximum up time.

On the management side, Talena’s Big Data Availability Management tool organizes data according to a “one copy, multiple use case” design that automatically masks and filters organization’s data. This allows engineering and DevOps teams to rapidly use data sets for analysis, development and testing in non-production clusters, while freeing up resources and eliminating wait time.

Talena’s biggest promise however, is that it delivers “universal data availability”. The platform’s backup and disaster recovery features ensures that customers’ data is “always available to power your Big Data applications across test/dev management, backup & recovery, and archiving processes”, the company claims. The solution ensures that data is instantly available, even in the event of application corruption or user error, while operators can quickly locate objects that need to be restored using the Talena FastFind feature. Finally, Talena also automates the archival of older and less-frequently used data to different tiers.

Talena has already signed up a limited number of customers, including the “programmatic marketing platform” Rocketfuel, and the Bombay Stock Exchange, but now it’s looking at growth opportunities. With its $12 million cash injection, Talena now plans to build out its product and rapidly expand its go-to-market efforts.

“Each of our investors brings unique Big Data expertise to our team and will help shape how we take advantage of this incredible opportunity,” said Nitin Donde, CEO and Founder of Talena. “They have invested in some of the best known Big Data companies and have a deep understanding of customer issues from witnessing numerous implementations. We’re excited to leverage their market, domain and customer knowledge to solve today’s critical data availability management challenges.”

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