Cisco

Cisco, a global technology leader, specializes in developing and selling networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. Its extensive product portfolio includes routers, switches, network security products, wireless solutions, collaboration tools, and data center technologies. Cisco's offerings enable businesses, organizations, and individuals worldwide to build, manage, and secure networks, facilitating communication and enhancing connectivity across diverse industries. The company also provides transformational services, such as technical assistance and advanced services, to help customers work more efficiently. Cisco fosters innovation through initiatives like the Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge, which supports early-stage businesses and startups leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT). Additionally, the Cisco Foundation contributes to creating technology-based solutions for non-profit organizations. With a workforce of 80,000 employees across 90 countries, Cisco is one of the world's largest providers of networking equipment and a significant player in the software industry.

Sylvia Chu

CEO

Kaustubh Das

Vice President and General Manager, Cloud and Compute

Jonathan Davidson

EVP / GM Massive-Scale Infrastructure Group

Pegah Ebrahimi

COO of Cisco Collaboration

Lorrissa Horton

Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer and General Manager

Rebecca Jacoby

CIO and SVP, IT and Cloud & Systems Management Technology Group

Jerry Lin

Global Principal Security Architect

Vijoy Pandey

Vice President

Darren Pleasance

SVP, Global Strategy, Planning and Operations

Chandrodaya Prasad

Vice President Of Product Management | Cloud, SASE and Network Security | Security Business Group

David Sardana

Director of Product Management, SD-WAN

AJ Shipley

Vice President, Product Management - Threat Detection and Response

Past deals in Virtualization

Skyport Systems

Acquisition in 2018
Skyport Systems specializes in developing Hyper-Secured Infrastructure (HSI) designed to protect mission-critical IT and corporate assets. Their flagship product, the SkySecure System, integrates hardware, software, and services into a cohesive turn-key solution. This system provides robust security and integrity verification for application workloads, ensuring continuous protection. Skyport's enterprise IT software offers a secured, hyperconverged platform that combines compute, virtualization, networking, and storage, facilitating a simplified IT infrastructure. By automating operations and streamlining processes, it empowers IT organizations to save time and resources, allowing application owners to manage their infrastructure effectively without compromising security or performance.

Springpath

Acquisition in 2017
Springpath is a provider of a hyperconverged software platform designed for enterprise storage and data management. It introduces a software-defined data platform that caters to both virtualized and emerging container environments. Utilizing its patented Hardware Agnostic Log-structure Objects (HALO) architecture, the platform offers features such as elastic scaling and autonomous management, while operating on standard servers. This approach allows enterprises to maintain an independent IT infrastructure, fostering silo-free data center environments that enhance agility and responsiveness to market demands. By eliminating the need for traditional network storage and seamlessly integrating with existing management tools, Springpath maximizes operational efficiency, enabling customers to adapt their compute, caching, or capacity resources according to evolving business requirements.

HyTrust

Series E in 2017
HyTrust is a developer of cloud security software focused on automating compliance and enforcing security policies across both private and public cloud environments. Founded by experts in enterprise infrastructure and security, the company addresses the critical security challenges associated with virtualization and cloud adoption. HyTrust's solutions provide a centralized point of control for managing access, policy management, and security configurations within virtual infrastructures. This includes bridging traffic between corporate and management virtual local area networks of hypervisors, along with monitoring and logging communication for enhanced data protection. By enabling organizations to securely expand virtualization to mission-critical applications, HyTrust plays a vital role in mitigating risks of data breaches and catastrophic data center failures. The company has garnered support from leading investors in the next-generation data center space, ensuring a robust foundation for its innovative security solutions.

Viptela

Acquisition in 2017
Viptela, Inc. specializes in software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology, enabling global companies to establish carrier-agnostic and policy-controlled WANs that are both secure and cost-effective. Their offerings include a cloud-based SD-WAN Controller for managing routing, security, and authentication across devices, as well as a centralized management system that provides real-time monitoring of network health. Viptela's technology also features vEdge Routers for secure data connectivity and a flexible platform called Viptela Fabric, which supports various applications such as cloud networking and Network-as-a-Service. The company has been adopted by numerous Fortune 500 enterprises and major carriers, highlighting its effectiveness in reducing WAN costs and improving network agility. Incorporated in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Viptela operates as a subsidiary of Cisco Systems and has received recognition from industry analysts, including being named a Gartner Cool Vendor.

Cliqr

Acquisition in 2016
CliQr Technologies, Inc. specializes in application-defined cloud management solutions, offering a comprehensive platform that simplifies the modeling, deployment, and management of applications across diverse environments, including physical, virtual, and cloud settings. The company's flagship product, CliQr CloudCenter, facilitates the deployment of application components and data across various infrastructures, enhancing application migration, IT-as-a-Service, and DevOps automation. CliQr's technology allows businesses to seamlessly manage their application lifecycles in multiple environments, catering to industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and technology. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Jose, California, CliQr operates globally through reseller partnerships and has expanded its presence to locations in Canada, India, and the Czech Republic. As of 2016, CliQr operates as a subsidiary of Insieme Networks, Inc.

Embrane

Acquisition in 2015
Embrane is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in the design and development of solutions for the delivery and management of network services in data centers. Founded in 2009, Embrane focuses on simplifying the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for both service providers and enterprise customers. The company offers a range of application-centric virtual network services, including firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, and SSL offload engines, aimed at enhancing network efficiency and flexibility.

HyTrust

Series D in 2015
HyTrust is a developer of cloud security software focused on automating compliance and enforcing security policies across both private and public cloud environments. Founded by experts in enterprise infrastructure and security, the company addresses the critical security challenges associated with virtualization and cloud adoption. HyTrust's solutions provide a centralized point of control for managing access, policy management, and security configurations within virtual infrastructures. This includes bridging traffic between corporate and management virtual local area networks of hypervisors, along with monitoring and logging communication for enhanced data protection. By enabling organizations to securely expand virtualization to mission-critical applications, HyTrust plays a vital role in mitigating risks of data breaches and catastrophic data center failures. The company has garnered support from leading investors in the next-generation data center space, ensuring a robust foundation for its innovative security solutions.

Embrane

Series C in 2014
Embrane is a software company based in Santa Clara, California, that specializes in the design and development of solutions for the delivery and management of network services in data centers. Founded in 2009, Embrane focuses on simplifying the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing for both service providers and enterprise customers. The company offers a range of application-centric virtual network services, including firewalls, VPNs, load balancers, and SSL offload engines, aimed at enhancing network efficiency and flexibility.

WhipTail

Acquisition in 2013
WhipTail Technologies commercialized the first all-flash enterprise storage array to address performance issues in data centers. Installed worldwide in numerous mission critical database, virtualization, and online environments, WhipTail's solid-state storage dramatically reduces delays related to hard disk contention and access times, allowing servers to process more data in dramatically less time -- months to days, hours to minutes. Since 2009, customers have relied on WhipTail's flash-based arrays for extreme IOPS, bandwidth and latency, optimizing performance of key business functions and bringing modern performance demanding applications to life.

HyTrust

Series C in 2013
HyTrust is a developer of cloud security software focused on automating compliance and enforcing security policies across both private and public cloud environments. Founded by experts in enterprise infrastructure and security, the company addresses the critical security challenges associated with virtualization and cloud adoption. HyTrust's solutions provide a centralized point of control for managing access, policy management, and security configurations within virtual infrastructures. This includes bridging traffic between corporate and management virtual local area networks of hypervisors, along with monitoring and logging communication for enhanced data protection. By enabling organizations to securely expand virtualization to mission-critical applications, HyTrust plays a vital role in mitigating risks of data breaches and catastrophic data center failures. The company has garnered support from leading investors in the next-generation data center space, ensuring a robust foundation for its innovative security solutions.

Atlantis Computing

Series D in 2013
Atlantis Computing specializes in software-defined storage solutions aimed at optimizing storage economics within data centers. The company offers a platform that enhances virtual desktop infrastructure performance by leveraging existing data center resources and hyper-converged systems. This innovative approach enables businesses to overcome the limitations of traditional SAN and NAS hardware while delivering performance comparable to all-flash arrays at significantly lower costs. Atlantis USX, the company's flagship product, is designed to improve virtualized workload performance by up to ten times and increase effective storage capacity similarly. With a track record of managing tens of petabytes of software-defined storage for over 800,000 virtual machines globally, Atlantis Computing has established itself as a leader in the industry, earning multiple awards for its contributions to storage technology. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is privately held and supported by notable venture capital firms.

Parallels

Funding Round in 2013
Parallels, Inc. is a company specializing in virtualization technology and Mac management solutions for consumers, businesses, and service providers. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Parallels offers a range of products, including Parallels Desktop for Mac, which enables users to run Windows applications, and Parallels Access, allowing remote access to computers. The company's offerings also include Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, which assists IT departments in managing Mac devices, and Parallels Remote Application Server for secure access to desktops and applications. Additionally, Parallels provides tools like Parallels Toolbox to streamline computing tasks and Parallels Mobile Device Management for controlling mobile data. With a global reach across North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, Parallels serves a diverse clientele. The company, originally known as SWsoft, Inc., rebranded in 2008 and is now a subsidiary of Corel Corporation.

vCider

Acquisition in 2012
vCider focuses on the development of virtual network overlay technology solutions to secure data center infrastructures.

LineSider Technologies

Acquisition in 2010
LineSider Technologies specializes in the development of networking software aimed at enhancing communications networks to support cloud computing. The company assists service providers and enterprise organizations in transforming their networks into agile and adaptable infrastructures, enabling them to quickly respond to the evolving demands of dynamic cloud environments. Through next-generation network services virtualization, LineSider Technologies facilitates a more efficient and responsive network infrastructure, crucial for modern digital operations.

Atlantis Computing

Series C in 2010
Atlantis Computing specializes in software-defined storage solutions aimed at optimizing storage economics within data centers. The company offers a platform that enhances virtual desktop infrastructure performance by leveraging existing data center resources and hyper-converged systems. This innovative approach enables businesses to overcome the limitations of traditional SAN and NAS hardware while delivering performance comparable to all-flash arrays at significantly lower costs. Atlantis USX, the company's flagship product, is designed to improve virtualized workload performance by up to ten times and increase effective storage capacity similarly. With a track record of managing tens of petabytes of software-defined storage for over 800,000 virtual machines globally, Atlantis Computing has established itself as a leader in the industry, earning multiple awards for its contributions to storage technology. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the company is privately held and supported by notable venture capital firms.

Mavenir

Series D in 2010
Mavenir develops a cloud-native network software, a mobile communications software stack that runs on cloud infrastructure and connects devices, as well as people to the internet and apps, thereby offering multimedia messaging for connectivity among people.

HyTrust

Series B in 2010
HyTrust is a developer of cloud security software focused on automating compliance and enforcing security policies across both private and public cloud environments. Founded by experts in enterprise infrastructure and security, the company addresses the critical security challenges associated with virtualization and cloud adoption. HyTrust's solutions provide a centralized point of control for managing access, policy management, and security configurations within virtual infrastructures. This includes bridging traffic between corporate and management virtual local area networks of hypervisors, along with monitoring and logging communication for enhanced data protection. By enabling organizations to securely expand virtualization to mission-critical applications, HyTrust plays a vital role in mitigating risks of data breaches and catastrophic data center failures. The company has garnered support from leading investors in the next-generation data center space, ensuring a robust foundation for its innovative security solutions.

Parallels

Venture Round in 2009
Parallels, Inc. is a company specializing in virtualization technology and Mac management solutions for consumers, businesses, and service providers. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Parallels offers a range of products, including Parallels Desktop for Mac, which enables users to run Windows applications, and Parallels Access, allowing remote access to computers. The company's offerings also include Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM, which assists IT departments in managing Mac devices, and Parallels Remote Application Server for secure access to desktops and applications. Additionally, Parallels provides tools like Parallels Toolbox to streamline computing tasks and Parallels Mobile Device Management for controlling mobile data. With a global reach across North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond, Parallels serves a diverse clientele. The company, originally known as SWsoft, Inc., rebranded in 2008 and is now a subsidiary of Corel Corporation.

Qumranet

Series B in 2008
Qumranet, Inc. is an enterprise software company specializing in virtual computing solutions. The company offers Solid ICE, an integrated desktop virtualization product that includes key components such as the Virtual Desktop Server, which operates Windows virtual desktops, and the Virtual Desktop Controller, responsible for managing the virtual desktop environment. Additionally, Qumranet utilizes the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE), a remote connection protocol designed for virtual environments. These solutions enable enterprises to host desktops on Kernel-based virtual machines located in corporate data centers, allowing users to connect remotely. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Qumranet also has offices in Raanana and Netanya, Israel. The company has been a subsidiary of Red Hat, Inc. since 2008.

VMware

Funding Round in 2007
VMware, established in 1998 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, is a leading software company specializing in cloud and virtualization services. It provides a comprehensive suite of software-defined services, including compute, storage, network, security, and cloud management, enabling businesses to run, manage, connect, and secure applications across private and public clouds. VMware's solutions enhance enterprise agility and flexibility, allowing users to choose their preferred development platforms and environments while increasing operational efficiency and reducing costs. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, application development, and cybersecurity, and it operates globally, with a significant presence in the United States. VMware's software helps businesses securely access applications and data from anywhere, accelerating digital transformation.

Topspin Communications

Acquisition in 2005
Topspin Communications, founded in 2000 and based in Mountain View, California, specializes in server networking equipment and virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers. The company provides server fabric switches that create programmable infrastructure for various applications, including grid and utility computing, clustered enterprise applications, and server virtualization. These switches enable efficient connectivity among servers, facilitating enhanced network and storage access within a server grid. Additionally, Topspin's virtualization fabric allows for the dynamic allocation of CPU, I/O, and storage resources, enabling organizations to adapt quickly to evolving business demands while streamlining the integration and deployment of new data center resources.

VirtualLogix

Series A in 2004
VirtualLogix, Inc. specializes in developing and marketing virtualization software solutions for connected devices and networks. The company offers a range of products, including the VirtualLogix VLX platform, which enables embedded systems to run multiple heterogeneous operating systems and applications simultaneously on shared hardware. Their solutions cater to various sectors, including 3G wireless handsets, multimedia IP devices, and embedded systems. Specific offerings include VirtualLogix VLX for Network Infrastructure, which supports both commercial and real-time operating systems, and VirtualLogix VLX for Mobile Handsets, designed for wireless devices. The company also provides a customizable solution for embedded products and a graphical development environment to assist users in configuring and optimizing their virtualized platforms. Additionally, VirtualLogix offers consulting, training services, and support programs. Its clientele includes semiconductor companies, manufacturers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and carriers across Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, and China. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, VirtualLogix was formerly known as Jaluna SA.

Allegro Systems

Acquisition in 2001
Allegro Systems, Inc. develops virtual private network acceleration technologies for secure networking platforms.

StoreAge

Series B in 2001
StoreAge's Storage Virtualisation Manager is out-of-data path software installed on a switch-based appliance, which pools storage resources around a storage-area network. The company also has snapshot copy, replication, disaster recovery and migration software

Surgient Networks

Series B in 2001
Surgient, Inc. specializes in self-service virtualization automation and lab management solutions, primarily through its Virtual Automation Platform. This platform enables enterprise IT organizations to deliver self-service computing resources to users, supporting applications such as software quality assurance, training, sales, and marketing. Additionally, Surgient Cloud Express integrates cloud computing technology to assist organizations in deploying on-premise cloud infrastructures. The company offers a range of services including solution design and architecture, capacity planning, software installation, configuration, and training for both administrators and end-users. Surgient serves a diverse array of industries, including hospitality, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, insurance, software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, and hardware. Founded in 1999, Surgient is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
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