Innovation Across the Digital Infrastructure Stack From Silicon Valley to the global infrastructure ecosystem, Converge Digest tracks the companies building tomorrow's networks. |
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| Tracking: Funding • Tapeouts • Product Launches • Customer Deployments • Manufacturing • Partnerships • Acquisitions |
Cisco agreed to acquire Intucell, a developer of self-optimizing network (SON) software for mobile operators, for approximately $475 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Intucell, which is based in Ra'anana,...
Violin Memory, which specializes in high-performance flash-based storage systems, has acquired GridIron Systems, a start-up developing data center application acceleration technology. Financial terms were not disclosed. GridIron offers a TurboCharger...
SevOne,a start-up headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, raised $150 million from Bain Capital to support its IT infrastructure management solutions. SevOne provides an monitoring and reporting solution for enterprises and service...
vArmour Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, $6 million in a Series A funding for its work in software-defined security for virtualized data centers. vArmour said its mission...
Streetline, a start-up based in Foster City, California, raised $25 million in Series C funding for its M2M smart parking systems for cities. Streetline says it now has more than...
Guavus, a start-up based in San Mateo, California with R&D in India, closed a $30 million round of new funding to support its big data analytics solutions Guavus specializes in...
Mirantis, a start-up based in Mountain View, California with offices in Russia and Ukraine, raised $10 million in venture funding for its OpenStack systems integration work. Mirantis' goal is to...
Juniper Networks agreed to acquire Contrail Systems, a start-up developing software defined networking (SDN) solutions for approximately $176 million in cash and stock. Contrail Systems, which is based in Santa...
Cloud Velocity, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, emerged from stealth mode and unveiled its Hybrid Cloud Automation Platform for helping enterprises to rapidly migrate applications to public clouds by automating...
Pica 8, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California and Beijing, China, introduced its SDN reference architecture, including a physical open switch, a hypervisor virtual switch and an SDN controller...
Cisco, DC Thomson and University College London are teaming up to found a new Innovation and Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEA) to better support Tech City in East London and the...
Egenera, which provides physical, virtual and cloud management, has acquired Fort Technologies, a cloud lifecycle software provider based in Dublin, Ireland. Fort’s cloud management capabilities will be added to Egenera's...
Cloudera, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, closed $65 million in new funding to support its Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services. Cloudera offers a packaged solution for...
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