Start-ups

Snowflake Computing, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, has achieved HIPAA compliance with its cloud data warehousing service. Specifically, Snowflake has received key third-party validations of its service and...

Perspica, a start-up based in San Jose, California, emerged from stealth with a solution that delivers application infrastructure intelligence across hybrid-cloud environments. Perspica describes its Incident Replay subscription-based service as...

Datera, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, emerged from stealth and unveiled an AWS-like elastic block storage solution for enterprises and Service Providers. Datera Elastic Data Fabric is scale-out...

Electric Imp, a start-up based in Los Altos, California with offices in Cambridge, UK, raised $21 million in Series C funding for its IoT platform that securely connects devices to...

Vasona Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California with R&D in Tel Aviv, secured $14.6 million in series C funding for its platform for mobile network capacity, resource management...

Ericsson agreed to acquire NodePrime, a start-up offering a hyperscale data center management platform. The company is based in San Francisco.  Financial terms were not disclosed. NodePrime's mission is to...

NTT DOCOMO Ventures has made a strategic investment of EUR 1.5 million in Expway for its wireless multicast solutions. Expway’s current investors, Innovation Capital, I-Source, TechFund and Isatis Capital also...

Rancher Labs, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, released its open-source container management software. The Rancher software is designed to simplify the deployment and management of containers in production enterprise...

Brocade has acquired StackStorm, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, that offers an event-driven automation platform. Financial terms were not disclosed. Stack Storms ties together components across the IT...

Cloudera has acquired Sense, a start-up based in San Francisco that is developing a cloud-based platform from data analytics.  Financial terms were not disclosed. The Sense platform enables users to...

Couchbase, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $30 million in a series F round of funding. Couchbase offers a NoSQL database architected to consolidate multiple layers of functionality...

Skyport Systems announced a $30 million round of funding led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), with participation from Cisco Investments, Thomvest Ventures, Northgate Capital and InstantScale, as well...

Cisco has acquired Synata, a start-up based in San Francisco that developed search tools that work within Cisco Spark, the company's business collaboration service.  Financial terms were not disclosed. Synata’s...