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Qadium, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $40 million in Series B funding for its automated, global Internet intelligence operation. Qadium said it “indexes every device on the public Internet every hour, similar to how search companies crawl web pages.” Qadium then uses these data to continually monitor the global Internet for large organizations’ […]
Cumulus Networks is introducing a suite of technologies to help enterprises to deploy and operate production-ready web-scale networks for containers and microservices. The company said its new “Cumulus Host Pack” enables a path to web-scale networking that supports containers and microservices by utilizing a common toolset of the Linux ecosystem. Because Cumulus Linux brings the […]
NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made an equity investment in Petametrics, a San Francisco start-up that provides “LiftIgniter”, a personalization API to deliver a wholly unique experience to every individual user impression. LiftIgniter was founded by Indraneel Mukherjee, a former Google researcher, and a team of machine learning and math PhDs., The personalization engine is powering […]
Druva, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $80 million in new funding for its cloud data protection and management solutions. Druva provides a data management-as-a-service solution that aggregates data from endpoints, servers and cloud applications and leverages the public cloud to offer a single pane of glass to enable data protection, governance and intelligence. […]
Cisco agreed to acquire Springpath, a start-up specializing in hyperconvergence software for $320 million in cash and assumed equity awards. Springpath, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, has developed a distributed file system purpose-built for hyperconvergence that enables server-based storage systems. Cisco and Springpath have worked together since early 2016 to launch HyperFlex, a fully […]
Redis Labs, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with offices in Tel Aviv and London, raised $44 million in Series D funding, bringing its total equity to $86 million. The latest funding round was led by new investor Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing and existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures, with participation […]
Cylance, a privately held company that offers AI-powered cyber defense, reported the following metrics: 283 percent growth in overall revenue 119 percent growth in overall bookings 169 percent growth in the number of customers Over 5 million endpoints sold 171 percent growth in deals 100 percent growth in the number of OEM partnerships Cylance also […]
BlueJeans Network announced the appointment of Quentin Gallivan as its new CEO, replacing Krish Ramakrishnan, who continues on at the company as Innovation and Strategy and Executive Chairman. Gallivan is a four-time CEO with deep experience guiding numerous industry-leading enterprise platform and cloud companies. He was a founding executive at Verisign, and helped grow the […]
Sedona Systems, a provider of multi-layer IP/optical network automation and control solutions, announced the appointment of David Amzallag, former leader of network virtualisation transformation at Vodafone, as a special strategic advisor. In his new role, Mr. Amzallag brings extensive industry experience and understanding of carrier networks and will help to expand and develop Sedona’s NetFusion […]
Big Switch Networksof Santa Clara, California, The Next-Generation Data Center Networking company, a. Founded in 2010 having originated from the original Stanford research team that invented software defined networking (SDN) technology. b. Began shipping its platform-independent open SDN product suite, featuring a controller, virtual switch and network monitoring application in 2012, and in 2013 started […]
We have seen the tremendous potential for innovation, cost saving, and flexibility being unleashed by the public clouds. The hyperscale data centers of the top three public cloud providers are marvels to behold. Private cloud data centers and hybrid cloud architectures are also on the rise as Fortune 500 companies shift their IT spending to […]
AT&T announced it is committing to invest up to $200 million in a venture capital fund as part of its ongoing effort to develop solutions to address current and emerging technology challenges. Under the program, AT&T will work with venture capital firm Coral’s Communications Industry Platform (CIP) team to identify and invest in start-up companies […]
128 Technology of Burlington, Massachusetts, a provider of session-oriented routing solutions, announced that Japan’s NEC Networks and System Integration (NESIC) has deployed the 128T Networking Platform (128T) to interconnect four sites in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Osaka and Myanmar. In addition to using the 128T platform for its own corporate requirements, NESIC will also offer 128T to […]
