February 12th, 2013

Pertino Offers A Cloud-Based Network, No Hardware Required

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Pertino today launched a service enabling any small business to go online and create a network that runs entirely in the cloud.

Pertino uses Amazon Web Service (AWS) for its service making it possible for a business of any size to create secure networks. It connects people anywhere in a manner that not long ago would have cost a small fortune in networking gear. It does this by integrating its… → Read More

February 8th, 2013

Big Switch Raises $6.5M From Intel Capital, Gains Attention For Next Generation Networking, Challenges Cisco

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Big Switch Networks, the software defined networking company making a play on Cisco’s turf, has raised $6.5 million from Intel Capital. he investment brings the total amount raised to $45 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and others. → Read More

September 25th, 2012

Apigee Builds New API Management Service For The Programmable Data Center

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To address the new reality of our data driven world, we need better ways to manage the network. Google and later Amazon Web Services (AWS), embarked on that journey long ago. Now the market is beginning to catch up with new networked environments that are controlled more by software than physical switches, routers and controllers.

Apigee is now providing management for these Software-Defined… → Read More

August 7th, 2012

PLUMgrid Raises $10.7 Million With Goal To Become The New Platform For Networking

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PLUMgrid has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding from Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners to build an operating system that serves the network as much as the modern x86 processor is the foundation for the compute power we use every day to run our applications.

The network is becoming a sort of holy grail. We’ve figured out the compute. You can buy a cheap box and with an x86 processor… → Read More