People in a data center add costs, but before we can let the machines take over, applications need ways to communicate with the underlying gear. Plexxi and Boundary have teamed up to make this possible. Read more »
Gary Read, the CEO of Boundary, reports more than 5 terabytes of data coming into its servers for processing. At the same time, the company has grown revenues and employees. Read more »
The enterprise IT market is undergoing a radical shift thanks to cloud computing. On-demand computing has added agility but also increased complexity, and Okta, a startup that helps track who can access what corporate assets, has raised $25 million to bring identity management into the future. Read more »
If your application’s infrastructure is based in the cloud, then monitoring that infrastructure requires a cloud-based product as well. But monitoring the performance of cloud-based apps and the clouds they are hosted on requires a lot of data. Terabytes of it. Read more »
The usual suspects Amazon and VMware made significant announcements in cloud in the third quarter, while Hadoop remained the talk of the town in big data. Emerging trends in software-defined networking and flash storage stirred up lots of M&A and venture investment in the quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Boundary, a startup created by a former Amazon Web Services creator that provides real-time network monitoring has raised $15 million to help continue its growth. The second-round funding comes from new investor Scale Venture Partners and existing investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. Read more »
What if you could know everything about your network? And instead of getting snapshots you could see the path of every packet and run analytics on that stream of data in real time? It’s the difference between watching a cartoon and viewing a flip book. Read more »
Boundary, a startup that aims to rethink network monitoring for the cloud, has raised $4.1M. The San Francisco-based startup, founded by Amazon Web Services veteran, Benjamin Black, launches Tuesday with the funding from LightSpeed Venture Partners and a new beta. Read more »
