Start-ups

Cloudera confirmed that its latest funding round, which included a strategic investment from Intel, amounts to $900 million.  This financing round includes the previously-announced $160 million of funding from T....

ThreatMetrix, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced $20 million in Series E funding for its context-based security and advanced fraud prevention solutions. Adams Street Partners led the investment...

Hortonworks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, announced an oversubscribed $100 million funding round to support it enterprise Apache Hadoop solutions. Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports a 100% open...

Embrane, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $14 million in Series-C funding for its application-centric network services. The funding round was led by Cisco and included new Embrane...

Palo Alto Networks agreed to acquire Cyvera, a privately held cybersecurity company located in Tel-Aviv, Israel, for approximately $200 million. Palo Alto said Cyvera's approach to end-point security is revolutionary...

Box filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. http://www.box.net Box, which was founded in 2005, has evolved...

Cloudera, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, announced $160 million in new venture funding support its Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services. The new funding round was led...

Padmasree Warrior, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer for Cisco, has joined the board of directors of Bos. “Padma is an extraordinary leader with deep insights into global technology trends and...

Aquantia, a start-up specializing in 10Gigabit Ethernet ICs, raised $16 million in series G financing, including support from Xilinx. Aquantia, which is based in Milpitas, California, recently announced a low-power,...

Skorpios Technologies, a start-up based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, demonstrated a micro-ITLA tunable laser utilizing its Template Assisted Bonding (STAB) process. The laser was designed for next gen coherent 100G...

CPLANE NETWORKS introduced its network virtualization platform for enterprises and cloud service providers. CPLANE's software-only Dynamic Virtual Network (DVN), which is built for OpenStack and industry-standard protocols such as Virtual...

Pertino, a start-up based in Los Gatos, California, named Bharath Rangarajan as vice president of product and Ritch Haselden as vice president of inside sales. Pertinno offers a cloud networking...

Aerohive Networks, which specializes in controller-less Wi-Fi and cloud-managed mobile networking for the enterprise market, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating...