Big Switch Raises $25 Million for Open SDN
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...
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Nasuni Raises $20 Million for Enterprise Cloud Gateway
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...
MIT Tech Review: Breakthrough in Power Amplifiers
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 to Acquire Silver Tail for Web Session Intelligence
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 Acquires TokBox for Video Platform
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 to Acquire StorSimple for Hybrid Cloud Storage
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 Raises $12.5 Million for Software-Defined Storage Control
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...
Vistapointe Combines Packet Parsing with Cloud-based Analytics
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...
Big Switch Names VP of Marketing, VP of Sales
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 Raises $12 Million for Big Data Compression
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 Raises $16.5 Million for Cloud Services
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 Acquires LogNormal for User Metrics Tools
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...
Big Switch’s Rob Sherwood to Chair ONF’s Architecture Working Group
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...
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