Cumulus Networks
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| Private company | |
| Industry | Networking software, Cloud Networking |
| Founded | January 2010 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, USA |
Key people |
Josh Leslie, CEO, JR Rivers, CTO & Co-Founder, Nolan Leake, Co-Founder |
| Products | Operating System for Switches |
| Website | www.cumulusnetworks.com |
Cumulus Networks is a computer software company headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA. The company designs and sells a Linux operating system for industry standard network switches to deliver networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, and enterprise environments.
Background
Cumulus Networks was founded by JR Rivers and Nolan Leake in 2010. The company raised a first round of seed funding in 2012.[1] Cumulus Networks emerged publicly in June 2013[2] after previously operating in stealth mode.[3] [4] [5] The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter Wagner and 4 of the 5 original VMware founders.[6][7]
In 2014 Dell made a deal with Cumulus to offer the option of the Cumulus Linux network OS with their switches.[8]
In 2015, Hewlett Packard Enterprise made a deal with Cumulus Networks to offer Cumulus Linux on their Altoline switches.[9]
See also
- Linux
- Open network install environment
- Pica8
- Open Compute Project
- Open-source computing hardware
- Software-defined networking
References
- ↑ Stacey Higginbotham (March 5, 2012). "The lowdown on stealth startup Cumulus Networks". GigaOM.
- ↑ Deborah Gage (June 19, 2013). "Bringing Linux to Networking, Cumulus Publicly Emerges" (blog). The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ Paul Venezia (June 19, 2013). "Cumulus Networks unveils 'Cisco killer'".
- ↑ Greg Ferro (June 19, 2013). "Cumulus Networks Casts a Shadow On Cisco Strategy".
- ↑ Jack Clark (June 20, 2013). "Cumulus sighting means storm coming for Cisco".
- ↑ "Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking". June 19, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
- ↑ "Cumulus Networks Investors".
- ↑ "Dell Teams With Cumulus Networks To Sell Bare-Metal Switches".
- ↑ "HP Launches New Open Network Switches for Web Scale Cloud Data Centers".