The company was founded in 2007 by Ben Sharma and Bijoy Bora as a data management solutions company. After 5 years of working within the industry, Zaloni released its first software product, the Bedrock Data Lake Management platform. In October 2015, the company released Mica, their first self-service data preparation platform. Mica was listed in the Gartner Market Guide for Self-Service Data Preparation, showing very robust capabilities among products from over 36 products in self-service data preparation. As of March 2020, the Zaloni Data Platform, which had been created from the merging of Mica and Bedrock, has been renamed the Arena software platform.
Technology
The Arena software platform is created in such a way that it is storage agnostic. Whether the data is stored on-premises, cloud, multicloud, or hybrid, it can be ingested into the platform to be accessed by governed data users throughout the organization. Zaloni's Arena platform is based on a cloud data architecture written by Ben Sharma, called EndZone Governance. This architecture involves four zones that data travels through from ingestion to consumption. These zones are Transient Landing, Raw, Trusted, and Refined. The platform includes a metadata catalog, workflows for data quality, data preparation, and data collaboration, along with self-service data consumption that delivers data to sandboxes for business tools and applications.
Funding
On March 7, 2016, Zaloni announced its Series A financing by Sierra Ventures & Baird Capital. As part of the transaction, Mark Fernandes, Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, joined Zaloni's Board of Directors. On May 2, 2018, Zaloni closed on $1.5M in debt offering. The company has raised $7.5 million to date.
Partnerships
On September 8, 2016, NetApp announced a partnership with Zaloni on a mid-tier storage solution for complete lifecycle management of the data lake. On October 20, 2016, Dell EMC announced a partnership with Zaloni "to help drive Dell EMC’s big data vision with the availability of Analytic Insights Module." On June 14, 2017, ixtel announced a partnership with Zaloni to "deliver top-tier Big Data intelligence solutions more efficiently and cost-effectively than competitors in the region." On November 30, 2017, Esgyn announced a partnership with Zaloni to give "enterprises the tools they need to successfully deploy enterprise data lakes and realize the promised ROI of their data lake investment." Zaloni is also an Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure approved partner.
