Tintri 'consolidates' Australian office to Singapore

Storage vendor Tintri has “decided to consolidate APAC operations out of regional headquarters in Singapore”, effectively shuttering the Sydney office from which it served Australia and New Zealand. As archive.org records, Tintri had an office in Sydney as recently as May 7th, 2016. The company's Contact Us page now contains …

[Anonymous Coward]

Technically, that could be a plan to sell to Australia without paying Australian taxes...?

[MassXvelocity]

...or perhaps this is the first partial note heralding in the era of storage start-up culling/consolidation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lets hope so

[Terry P]

Australia is an expensive place to do business - from floor space to employees. You don't pull out of countries as lucrative as Australia, you need local employees on the ground. The population is small but they spend - they're a key business area for any IT player.

Not a bad product, lovely people but definitely a retreat due to $$$ IHMO.

No idea how many people were employed there, perhaps a guess at 4? It's tough to be a private startup at the moment. The market is too bad to IPO and the Venture Capitalist funds have all but stopped giving out. Nutanix had to take a $75m loan from Goldmans only last month.

It's unlikely to be a way to dodge taxes. You can't avoid Aussie import taxes by moving office.

[GrumpyOldBloke]

The defence trade controls act and penalties for unlicensed R&D collaboration with foreign parties?