Start-ups

SugarCRM, which offers an open-platform web-based customer relationship management service, announced a $40 million equity investment by Goldman Sachs & Co. SugarCRM will use the investment to expand its global...

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $10 million in Series B funding and released its SaaS offering, which automatically uncovers hidden operational hazards before problems emerge as...

Tegile Systems, a start-up based in Newark, California, closed $35 million in Round C funding for its hybrid storage systems. Tegile offers enterprise storage arrays that leverage the performance of...

Nasuni, a start-up based in Natick, Mass., announced a Cloud Mirroring capability that delivers data protection in the cloud. Nasuni provides a simple, unified storage service via on-premise hardware that...

FireEye, which offers cyber security solutions, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. FireEye provides real-time, dynamic...

Cisco completed its previously announced acquisition of Composite Software, a developer of data virtualization software and services, approximately $180 million in cash and retention-based incentives.Composite Software, which is based in...

SolidFire, a start-up based in Boulder, Colorado, announced $31 million in Series C funding for its all-SSD storage systems designed for large scale cloud infrastructure. SolidFire's newly launched SF9010 is...

EdgeCast Networks announced $54 million in new financing for its content delivery network. The company said it has added more than 2,000 accounts in the past year and now has...

RiverMeadow Software, a start-up based in San Jose, California and Westford, Massachusetts, has updated its automated server migration solution developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds. RiverMeadow Cloud Migration...

CloudVelocity, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $13 million in Series B funding for its cloud migration software. CloudVelocity, which emerged out of stealth mode in December 2012,...

Numecent, a start-up based in Irvine, California with offices in the UK, introduced a "Native as a Service" that uses Amazon Web Services to optimize the delivery of native Windows-based...

IBM agreed to acquire CSL International, a privately-held developer of virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system. Financial terms were not disclosed. CSL International, which is based in Herzliya Pituach,...

Oceus Networks, a start-up based in Reston, Virginia, demonstrated the deployment of an LTE base station in a high-altitude balloon.  The idea to create an easily deployable emergency network that...