Big Switch Networks announced two key appointments. Jason Matlof joins Big Switch Networks as VP of Marketing. Matlof previously was an investor and Partner at Battery Ventures. He started his career in...
RainStor, a start-up based in San Francisco and Gloucester (UK) raised $12 million in Series C funding for its database solutions for Big Data. RainStor provides a database, which through compression technologies...
Thinking Phone Networks, a start-up based in Cambridge. Mass., raised $16.5 million in venture funding for its enterprise cloud communication services. Thinking Phone Networks developed a multi-tenant cloud software platform that...
SOASTA, a start-up offering cloud and mobile testing, has acquired LogNormal, a developer of real user measurement and monitoring tools for mobile and web applications. The acquisition extends SOASTA’s platform...
Rob Sherwood, who is Principal Architect at Big Switch Networks, has been appointed chair of the Open Networking Foundation's (ONF) new Architecture & Framework Working Group (ArchWG). The ONF ArchWG will...
6connect, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, introduced a set of cloud-based tools for helping enterprises and service providers to migrate their IPv4 networks to IPv6. The 6connect ProVision Suite...
Sub 10 Systems, a start-up based in the UK, announced a global supply and distribution agreement with Alcatel-Lucent covering Sub 10’s millimetre wave Liberator radio products. Alcatel-Lucent will resell the Sub10...
Xirrus, a start-up based in Thousand Oaks, California, secured $23.5 million in Series E funding for its high-performance Wi-Fi solutions. The company offers a Wi-Fi Array that integrates 4, 8,...
Cisco has acquired ThinkSmart Technologies, a software developer specializing in location data analysis using Wi-Fi. Financial terms were not disclosed. ThinkSmart’s location analytics collects information on movement within a venue including...
SimpliVity, a start-up based in Westborough, MA, raised $25 million in Series B funding for its "OmniCube" Software Defined Data Center in a Box. SimpliVity describes its OmniCube as the world’s first truly assimilated...
CohesiveFT, a start-up providing enterprise application-to-cloud migration solutions, has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). CohesiveFT, which was founded in 2006 and is based in Chicago, supplies an application-controlled SDN...
Arista Networks unveiled a new low-latency data center switch family designed for software-defined networking (SDN) in Big Data, Cloud Networks, Financial Trading, HPC and Web 2.0 environments. The new switches...
BLiNQ Networks, a start-up based in Plano, Texas, raised an additional $10 million in funding for its intelligent wireless backhaul solutions. BLiNQ Networks was founded in June 2010 after the...
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