Start-ups

Hortonworks, which offers enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions, agreed to acquire SequenceIQ, an open source provider of rapid deployment tools for Hadoop. Financial terms were not disclosed. SequenceIQ, which was founded...

Palerra, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $17 million in Series B financing for its cloud security automation solution. Palerra's LORIC platform is designed to protect an enterprise’s...

CoreOS, a San Francisco start-up building a new Linux distribution for modern infrastructure stacks, introduced Tectonic, its commercial Kubernetes platform. Tectonic, which combines Kubernetes and the CoreOS stack, pre-packages all...

Cisco announced its intention to acquire Embrane, a start-up offering a lifecycle management platform for application-centric network services. Embrane, which is based in Santa Clara, California, offers a software platform...

CipherCloud, which provides cloud visibility and data protection, announced the acquisition of Anicut Systems, a privately held provider of adaptive security as a service. Financial terms were not disclosed. CipherCloud...

Tanium secured an additional $52 million in venture funding from Andreessen Horowitz for its security and systems management solution.  The additional funding is a follow-up to Andreessen Horowitz’s initial financing...

Lookingglass Cyber Solutions, a start-up based in Arlington, Virginia, announced $20 million in new funding for its threat intelligence for large businesses and government agencies. The company says its platform...

Apigee, a start-up based in San Jose, California, filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of shares of its common...

Telstra announced an equity investment in Gorilla Technology Group, a Taiwanese-based global leader in video analytics for business intelligence, security, enterprise unified communications, education, broadcast media and entertainment. Financial terms...

Corsa Technology, a start-up based in Ottawa, raised $16.5 million in Series B funding, for its work in SDN. Corsa Technology, which was founded in 2013, is focused on delivering...

Altocloud, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced the commercial release of its SaaS-based predictive communications platform for customer sales and engagement. The service combines machine learning with real-time...

SignalFx, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, emerged from stealth-mode and launched its SaaS-based monitoring platform for modern applications. The company's "SignalFlow" streaming and historical analytics technology is designed...

Anuta Networks, a start-up based in Milpitas, California that is developing network orchestration systems, announced support for OpenStack Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) and compliance with ETSI NFV. The Anuta’s NCX...