SANTA CLARA, CA, NVELO Inc., a pioneer in storage software, and makers of Dataplex storage caching software, today announced that it has closed $6.6 million dollars in Series A financing led by Silicon Valley-based venture fund SKS Capital.

The capital will support the expansion of the Dataplex product line for consumer computing and the launch of a new Dataplex storage product designed specifically for server storage caching.

"Our customers want affordable SSD performance with HDD capacity," said Jiurong Cheng, a Founder and CEO of NVELO. "That's exactly what we are delivering with our Dataplex software, which we are rolling out this quarter to select PC OEMs and SSD vendors. Now with this additional funding, we can ramp our R&D effort to begin targeting servers and enterprise-class storage."

"The NVELO team has a strong track record of product innovation and overall business success," said Sanjay Srivastava, general partner at SKS Capital and senior vice president, research and development, SoC Realization Group at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "NVELO is committed to providing the industry with much needed solutions that address the cost and performance of computing storage, and we believe that this new capital will enable NVELO to accelerate the development of new and disruptive products for both the client and server markets."

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) also holds equity investment in NVELO.

"Cadence continues to invest in companies that bring differentiated, innovative solutions to fast growing markets," said Nimish Modi, senior vice president, research and development, System & Software Realization Group at Cadence. "We see NVELO as a key player in bringing SSD technology to mainstream computing through its caching software products and scaling the core technology to address enterprise storage."

The Dataplex consumer product won the "Visionary Products Award for Mobile Consumer Electronics Storage" at the 2011 Storage Visions Conference for addressing the need for SSD performance with HDD capacity in PC and Notebook computing. Compatible with any desktop or notebook computer, Dataplex uses a low-capacity SSD as cache for the traditional HDD found in consumer computing, delivering SSD performance with HDD capacity, at incremental cost over HDDs. Dataplex continuously monitors system data traffic and dynamically adapts to user behavior for optimal placement of data in either HDD storage or SSD cache.

About Dataplex

Dataplex is a host-based software product that increases the overall computing performance by using a small SSD as a high-performance cache for an existing HDD. Dataplex uses advanced adaptive caching algorithms to intelligently monitor and manage user data to deliver SSD level performance across the entire capacity of the HDD. The client or consumer version of Dataplex is schedule for release in 3Q2011; the related products for server and enterprise are in development.

About NVELO, Inc.

NVELO, Inc. is a pioneer in innovative storage software, bringing new intelligence into storage subsystems to break the I/O bottleneck in today's computing systems. Formed as a spin-off company during the acquisition of Denali Software by Cadence Design Systems, NVELO employs world-class engineering and management teams for R&D on its flagship product "Dataplex", which is now in the process of being introduced to the market through Computer OEM's, HDD and SSD vendors. NVELO is a privately held company with company headquarters in Santa Clara California. For more information, visit http://www.nvelo.com .