Start-ups

Neul, a startup developing solutions for whitespace wireless, has appointed Stan Boland as its new CEO. Boland was previously CEO and co-founder of Icera, a UK-based company building 4G/3G/2G cellular...

Arista Networks is integrating its EOS (Extensible Operating System) natively with OpenStack as well as delivering enhanced OpenFlow extensions via direct flow-based configuration interfaces and data-plane programmability. The idea is...

GreenBytes, a start-up based in Providence, Rhode Island, announced $7 million in additional Series C funding, for its desktop virtualization technology. GreenBytes' IO-Offload desktop virtualization leverages a patented, zero latency...

Guavus, a start-up specializing in big data analytics for carriers, announced the appointment of Rob Chimsky to the newly created role of vice president of insights.   Chimsky previously worked...

Zerto, a start-up based in Herzelia, Israel, closed a $13 million round of Series C financing for its hypervisor-based, disaster recovery and replication software for virtualized environments. The Zerto Virtual...

Midokura, a start-up with offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and Barcelona, announced $17.3M in Series A funding for its network virtualization technology. Midokura offers an overlay-based network virtualization technology that...

Proximal Data, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $2 million in Series B funding for its server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data offers adaptive I/O...

Tabula, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, introduced its suite of high-performance packet processing solutions aimed at 100G applications. The technology focuses on routing of high-performance buses, on-chip RAM...

Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, who together founded BlackBerry, announced Quantum Valley Investments, a new, $100 million private fund that will provide financial and intellectual capital for the further development...

Fusion-io has acquired ID7, a start-up developing software defined storage (SDS) solutions, for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2006, ID7 is a UK-based storage technology company specializing in the development...

Vasona Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California with R&D in Tel Aviv, raised confirmed that it has now raised $22 million to date, including a recent $12 million...

Oracle agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Financial terms were not disclosed. Nimbula, which is based in Redwood City, California, was founded by the...

Compass-EOS, a start-up based in Israel, unveiled its radical silicon-to-photonics router that essentially leverages an on-chip optical mesh and electronics to route high-densities of 100GbE and 10GbE. The company's silicon-to-photonics...