Start-ups

Dell has acquired Gale Technologies, a developer of automation software that allows streamlines the deployment of on-premise and hybrid clouds, for an undisclosed sum. Gale Technologies, which is based in...

Shares in Ruckus Wireless began trading for the first time(NYSE: RKUS).  The company priced an initial public offering of 8,400,000 shares at $15.00 per share. Trading closed on Friday at...

Cisco agreed to acquire Cloupia, a start-up focused on Cloud Automation and Management Software, for approximately $125 million in cash and retention-based incentives. Cloupia, which is based in Santa Clara,...

Big Switch, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, announced the full commercial release of its Open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) product suite, encompassing a Big Network Controller (BNC), the Open...

Google announced a 50% increase in the size of the Google Ventures fund to $300 million in new investments per year.  The company now has over 130 start-ups in its...

Big Switch Networks raised $25 million in Series B funding for its platform-independent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution. Big Switch Networks, which was founded in March 2010 and is based in...

Nasuni, a start-up based in Natick, Mass., raised  $20 million in Series C funding for its enterprise cloud gateway. Nasuni provides a consolidated storage-as-a-service solution for distributed enterprises.  The solution brings...

Eta Devices, a start-up company led by two MIT electrical engineering professors, has cracked the energy efficiency problem in power amplifier designs for radio communications.  According to MIT Technology Review...

EMC agreed to acquire Silver Tail Systems, a start-up offering web session intelligence and behavior analysis tools, for an undisclosed sum. The Silver Tail Systems platform collects and analyzes real-time...

Telefónica Digital has acquired TokBox, a San Francisco based start-up developing a platform for live video-based communications services.  Financial terms were not disclosed. TokBox's OpenTok Video Platform enables enables video...

Microsoft agreed to acquire StorSimple, a start-up developing Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions.  Financial terms were not disclosed. StorSimple, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers solutions that combine the data...

Gridstore, a start-up based in Mountain View, CA, raised $12.5 million in Series A financing for its scale-out grid storage solutions. Gridstore's  Virtual Controller Technology delivers scalable, software-defined storage via a Microsoft Managment...

by James E. Carroll Vistapointe, a start-up based in San Ramon, California with R&D in Bangalore, India, introduced its cloud-based and embedded network intelligence solutions for mobile and enterprise Wi-Fi...