Start-ups

Range Networks, a start-up developing open source cellular systems, appointed Edward Kozel as its new CEO. Kozel spent 12 years at Cisco Systems, where he served as chief technology officer,...

Google has acquired Impermium, a start-up specializing in web account security, for an undisclosed sum. Impermium, which was based in Redwood City, California, delivers threat intelligence and risk-based authentication to...

CipherCloud has acquired CloudUp Networks, a privately held provider of SaaS application security. The transaction closed in early January. The financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed. CipherCloud...

Qualcomm Ventures kicked off its QPrize 2014 international seed investment competition, which seeks to identify and fund the industry's next promising, early-stage technology companies. The QPrize competition is open to...

dm Drugstore Corporation is using ADVA Optical Networking's FSP 3000 to transport mission-critical information between its data centers in Europe. FILIADATA, the IT subsidiary of dm Drugstore Corporation, operates several...

Skyera, a start-up specializing in enterprise solid state storage systems, announced that Michael Klayko, former CEO of Brocade Communications, has joined its Board of Directors.  Klayko had previously served the...

Nutanix closed $101 million in Series D financing co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures. The company, which is based in San Jose, California, said it has exceeded $100 million...

Peak (formerly PeakColo) secured $4 million in new funding for its enterprise-class IaaS cloud services for channel partners. Peak offers cloud computing to its large ecosystem of value-added resellers (VARS),...

Facebook will acquire Little Eye Labs, a start-up based in Bangalore, India, offering software tools to measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of Android apps.  Financial terms were not disclosed....

Vistapointe, a start-up based in San Ramon, California, closed a second round of funding for its cloud-based and real-time network intelligence solutions for mobile operators. Vistapointe specializes in data extraction,...

Palo Alto Networks has acquired Morta Security, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity company operating in stealth mode since 2012.  Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Palo Alto Networks said...

Infinio, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., closed a $12 million Series B funding round to support its NAS data storage accelerator for virtualized environments. Infinio's Accelerator is a software-only...

Nimble Storage priced an initial public offering of 8 million shares at $21, or $168 million for the company. Shares will begin trading on the NYSE under the symbol NMBL...