Start-ups

Mirantis agreed to acquire TCP Cloud, a start-up headquartered in Prague that specializes in  managed services for OpenStack, OpenContrail and Kubernetes. Financial terms were not disclosed. TCP Cloud has about...

Mushroom Networks introduced VNF (Virtual Network Function) Design Studio software, a curated library of modular, drag-and-drop components to help service providers and large enterprises build their software-defined WANS.  The software...

Verizon agreed to acquire Sensity Systems, a start-up focused on LED lighting solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Sensity, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, offers a sensor-based, multiservice IoT...

Ranovus, a start-up based in Ottawa, introduced a highly-scalable, Optical Engine and 200Gbps CFP2 optical transceiver solution for the Data Center Interconnect applications and based on its multi-wavelength Quantum Dot...

Connected2Fiber, a predictive AI SaaS company for the networking industry, raised $1.12 million in venture financing in a new funding round that was led by Nauta Capital. Connected2Fiber, which is...

Cisco has acquired ContainerX, a start-up offering a console for managing Docker containers. Financial terms were not disclosed. ContainerX, which is based in San Jose, California, promises "a single pane...

Nutanix announced the acquisition of two start-ups: PernixData and Calm.io.  Financial terms were not disclosed. PernixData, which is based in San Jose, specializes in scale-out data acceleration and analytics. The...

Tempered Networks, a start-up based in Seattle, has raised $10 million in a series B funding round, for its Identity-Defined Networking (IDN) paradigm. Tempered Networks' elastic and fully encrypted IDN...

Virtru, a start-up specializing in encryption and data protection, announced $29 million in Series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Soros Fund Management,...

Rubrik, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, closed $61 million in new venture funding and launched version 3.0 of its Cloud Data Management platform, which delivers data protection, search...

Intel agreed to acquire Nervana Systems, a start-up based in San Diego, California, for their work in machine learning. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nervana, which was founded in 2014,...

Sedona Systems, a start-up based in Israel with offices in Cupertino, California, announced $13.6 million in Series B funding for its IP/optical converged control platform for service provider networks. Sedona...

Velostrata, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, released version 2.0 of its solution for migrating enterprise workloads to public clouds, especially stateful workloads like ERP, collaboration, middleware, OLTP, Oracle...