Start-ups

Sckipio Technologies, a start-up based in Israel, raised $10 million in funding to support its development of ultra-high speed G.fast broadband modem semiconductors. The company has not yet announced any...

Big Switch Networks named Jeffrey Wang as Vice President of Engineering, a position where he will lead development of the company's pipeline of SDN Fabric solutions, including its Unified Physical...

Box announced $100 million in new venture funding and strategic partnerships with with Itochu Technology Ventures, Macnica, Mitsui USA, MKI, Telefónica Digital and Telstra.  Coatue, DST Global, and existing Box...

Vello Systems announced two key hires:  Alan McKee, VP – Engineering and Jeff Paine, VP – Marketing. Before joining Vello, McKee was Vice President of Engineering at Intelliden, where he...

Akamai agreed to acquire Prolexic, a start-up based in Hollywood, Florida, for a net cash payment of approximately $370 million. Prolexic offers a FIPS 140-2 SSL/TLS Layer 7 DDoS detection,...

Compass-EOS, a start-up based in Netanya, Israel, raised $42 million in a new round of venture funding for its next-gen silicon-to-photonics-based routers. The company's silicon-to-photonics implementation, which it calls icPhotonics,...

Xangati, a start-up based in San Jose, California, named S. "Sundi" Sundaresh as its new president and CEO. Xangati provides workload performance management dashboards for cloud and virtual desktop environments....

Cumulus Networks cited support for its Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) project, a network boot loader for installing software on network switches. ONIE aims to accelerate the adoption of bare...

Jut, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $20 million in series B funding for its work in Big Data solutions for enterprises.  The company is still in stealth mode...

Pluribus Networks, a start-up developing software and hardware network virtualization platforms for the cloud, named Kumar Srikantan as its new president and CEO. Srikantan previously served as general manager and...

Cisco will acquire the remaining interest that it does not yet hold in San Jose-based Insieme Networks, its in-house spin-in focused on application centric infrastructure products. Insieme was started by...

Barracuda Networks completed an initial public offering of 4,140,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $18 per share. The shares are now traded under...

Arista Networks introduced its 7300 and 7250 high-density switching platforms for cloud and enterprise data centers. Arista also introduces its "Single Tier Spline" architecture for simplifying data centers by simplifying...