Twistlock Closes $17M Funding Round for Container Security
Container security firm Twistlock today closed on $17 million in Series B funding, led by Polaris Partners. Existing investors YL Ventures, TenEleven, and Rally Ventures participated in the round, bringing Twistlock’s total venture funding to date to $30 million.
Filament Receives $15M in New Funding
Filament, a Reno, Nevada-based provider of wireless industrial networks, raised $15m in venture capital funding.
The new round, which brought total funding to $21.8m, was led by Verizon Ventures and Bullpen Capital with participation from new investors Intel Capital, JetBlue Technology Ventures, CME Ventures, Lab IX, Backstage Capital, and Tappan Hill Ventures and previous investors Samsung NEXT, Resonant Venture Partners, and Digital Currency Group. In conjunction with the funding, Patrick Walsh, who led the investment for Intel Capital, is joining Filament’s Board of Directors.
Huawei and Canonical Extend Cooperation for Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Openstack
Huawei and Canonical today announced they are expanding their cooperation in enterprise and telecom clouds to announce that they have completed the integration of CloudFabric Cloud Data Center Network Solution and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack. The joint solution integrates the Agile Controller, Huawei’s SDN controller, with Ubuntu OpenStack to improve the efficiency of deploying and maintaining multiple data center networks.
Two of Cisco’s biggest competitors quietly kicked it in the teeth this week
While the tech world was stunned by Cisco’s surprise $3.7 billion purchase of AppDynamics this week right before AppDynamics had its IPO, that’s only part of the drama around Cisco this week.
Promise Acquired Sales and Support of All Symply Products
Promise Technology Inc. alerts its customers and partners in rich media markets that the company is no longer being represented anywhere by Symply Inc.
As of March 2, 2017, Promise acquired the sales and support of all current Symply products and will resume sales of Promise branded rich media products.
Why is IoT Popular? Because of Open Source, Big Data, Security and SDN
Why is everyone talking about the Internet of Things (IoT)? It’s not because the IoT is a new concept — it’s not — but rather because the IoT intersects with several other key trends in the tech world, from open source and big data to cybersecurity and software-defined networking.
If you think the IoT is a new thing, think again. The term Internet of Things has been around since the late 1990s. Devices other than computers and phones have been connecting to the Internet for decades. Neither the concept nor the substance of the IoT is very novel.
Cato Networks’ new SD-WAN service combines security and networking
In what has become almost commonplace for SDN news in the past few months, announcements this week were all about software-defined WAN. Cato Networks launched a cloud-based, secure SD-WAN service; Viptela and Tokyo-based NTTPC Communications Inc. announce a managed SD-WAN service; and systems integrator Teneo said it would use Riverbed Technology’s SteelConnect appliance to underpin its managed SD-WAN.
SDN and NFV Market Strategies, Future Trends and Forecast to 2025
The “Software Defined Networking (SDN) Market report categories the global market by Solutions, Services, Verticals, Organization Size and Geography” report provides a detailed overview of the major factors impacting the global market with the market share analysis and revenues of various sub segments.
NFV and SDN: What’s the Difference?
Software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are hot topics. They are clearly related, but how exactly are they similar? How are they different? How do they complement each other? Are you new to SDN or NFV? Check out SDNCentral’s SDN and NFV Essentials to learn the basics.
Top 3 NFV & SDN Open Source Trends in 2016
The first few years of open source work on software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) were defined by some nebulous goals. But this year, three clear trends emerged from the haze.