Start-ups

Cisco agreed to acquire OpenDNS, a privately held security company based in San Francisco, for approximately $635 million in cash and assumed equity awards. OpenDNS provides a secure DNS offering...

Distil Networks, a start-up with offices in Arlington, Virginia and San Francisco, raised $21 million in Series B funding for its bot detection and mitigation solution. Distil helps to defend...

HackerOne, a start-up based in San Francisco with offices in the Netherlands, raised $25 million in Series B funding for its vulnerability management and bug bounty platform. HackerOne, which was...

AtScale, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, announced $7 million in series A funding for its business intelligence solution for Hadoop. AtScale aims to is the glue between two...

Enigma, a start-up based in New York City, announced a $28.2 million Series B funding round to support its work in data discovery and analytics. Enigma has developed an analytics...

Portworx, a start-up based in Redwood City, California, unveiled its solution for providing elastic, scale-out block storage natively to Docker containers. Portworx PWX Converged Infrastructure for Containers allows Dockerized applications...

Rancher Labs, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, announced the beta release of its platform for running Docker in production. It includes a fully-integrated set of infrastructure services purpose built...

Datawise.io, a start-up based in San Jose, previewed its solution for delivering network and storage solutions for Linux containers. Project 6 is software for deploying and managing Docker containers across...

Corsa Technology, a start-up based in Ottawa, unveiled new SDN metering and QoS (Quality of Service) capability for its line of performance SDN hardware. Bandwidth reservation is seen as especially...

PLUMgrid, a start-up offering an Open Networking Suite (ONS) for clouds based on OpenStack, named Larry Lang as chief executive officer. Founder Awais Nemat has been appointed chairman of the...

AppFormix, a start-up based in San Jose, California emerged from stealth mode to unveil its platform for managing the physical infrastructure and orchestrating virtual machines and Docker containers by leverating...

Menlo Security emerged from stealth to unveil its Isolation Platform, a new technology that eliminates the threat of malware from key attack vectors, including Web and email. The solution does...

Avi Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, has integrated its Cloud Application Delivery Controller with Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Avi Networks, which was founded by key engineers behind...