Stratoscale, which builds software that it says will morph standard servers into converged data center appliances, now has $32 million in new Series B funding. Intel Capital led the round, which included contributions from Cisco’s venture arm (Cisco Investments) and SanDisk.
Stratoscale based in Hersliyah, Israel, says its software can turn X86 boxes into “hyper-converged infrastructure” that handles fast storage and runs cloud services built on containers and/or virtualization on the same hardware.
The resulting product will support both the OpenStack cloud framework and Docker containers, which is quickly becoming table stakes.
Converged infrastructure has been sort of hot recently. In August, Nutanix, which combines its software with Supermicro boxes, logged $140 million in fresh venture money, bringing its total to around $312 million. The difference here is that Stratoscale’s software will presumably run atop anyone’s standard hardware.
This round comes in addition to a $10 million Series A round last year from Battery Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners[/company].
The company was founded by CEO Ariel Maislos (pictured above) and CTO Etay Bogner.

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