Start-ups

Skyport Systems, a start-up offering "hyper-secured" servers, announced the appointment of Art Gilliland to the position of CEO. Gilliland most recently served as senior vice president and general manager of...

Tanium, a start-up which offers an endpoint security and management solution, secured $120 million in additional financing from TPG, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and funds and accounts advised by T....

Link Labs, a start-up based in Annapolis, Maryland closed a $6 million funding round  for its work in low-power, wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). The...

AirVM, a start-up based in Ottawa, announced  $8.0 million in Series A funding for its cloud-enablement software. AirVM's AirSembly software is a cloud management platform purpose-built for VMware to make...

ZeroStack, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, emerged from stealth and introduced a private cloud solution that combines on-premises deployment and a SaaS platform -- allowing customers to consume...

Nexenta announced a number of enhancements for it Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS) for VMware environments and the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). NexentaStor 5.0 connects NexentaFusion and VMware vCenter Server...

Scality, a start-up based in San Francisco, completed a $45 million Series D funding round for its software-based storage solution. Scality’s RING platform runs on standard x86 servers powered by...

Platform9, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced general availability of its a SaaS solution that transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud.  A version...

Lagrange System, a start-up offering an Application Delivery Controller (ADC), announced that it is now a Google Cloud Platform Technology Partner. The Lagrange CloudMaestro application delivery controller (ADC) is built...

CENX, a start-up providing Lifecycle Service Orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualized networks, raised US$12.5 million in new venture funding. CENX's solutions automate the fulfillment and assurance of advanced data...

E8 Security, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, named Matt Jones as its new CEO. Ravi Devireddy, founder and original CEO, will continue to drive core technology innovation as...

Tintri, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $125 million in Series F venture funding for its VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualization and cloud environments. Tintri's application-aware storage is...

Menlo Security, which offers a security solution that isolates all Web content in the cloud, announced a partnership with Webroot, a leading provider of real-time, actionable threat intelligence. Webroot will...