Start-ups

Your source for the latest news on start-up networking companies.

Ixia to demo 100G Ethernet at Interop
May. 12, 2009
At Interop next week, test vendor Ixia says it will transmit and receive Ethernet traffic at 100Gbps through a CFP Multi-Source Agreement optical module.

10 start-ups to watch in '09
Jan. 05, 2009
These 10 tech start-ups could change enterprise IT for the better.

Start-up HyTrust debuts policy enforcement for VMware
Apr. 06, 2009
Start-up HyTrust unveils its first product, a policy-enforcment appliance for VMware ESX servers and VirtualCenter.

Netscape alums tackle cloud storage
Apr. 06, 2009
Cloud storage start-up Zetta promises enterprise-class file system.

Start-ups air cable industry innovations
Apr. 02, 2009
A panel of five start-ups at The Cable Show '09 pitched technologies designed to change the cable industry.

Ex-Google, Yahoo staffers release Hadoop distribution
Mar. 16, 2009
A start-up called Cloudera on Monday publicly released its distribution of the open source Hadoop distributed computing framework, hoping to sell enterprise users on the system employed by Google, Yahoo and others to ...

Two start-ups, Egress and SafeMashups, make debut today
Mar. 16, 2009
Two start-ups, Egress Software Technologies and SafeMashups, each make their debut today with security products that have a crypto-tech edge to make data flowing across the Internet safer.

Data control console released for social-networking users
Mar. 10, 2009
Cliqset has developed a Web-based system that lets people manage from a central location their social-networking identity and data, becoming the latest company to address the portability problem for online social data.

Start-up Talis targets desktop security
Feb. 11, 2009
Start-up Talis Data Systems introduces PC hardware that controls use of USB storage devices and access to networks based on defined user privileges.

Start-up targets data center power usage
Feb. 10, 2009
A software start-up in stealth mode is promising to reduce power and cooling costs by providing visibility into data center processes and identifying ways to more efficiently use electricity.

Buying from start-ups in the challenging economy - good or bad?
Jan. 29, 2009
One topic that has received a lot of attention in these economic times is the viability of buying from start-ups in 2009. Sequoia Capital, one of the country's leading venture capital firms, has a presentation that ...

Venture capital for 'Net start-ups flat in '08: report
Jan. 26, 2009
Internet-based and software companies held their own in 2008 among businesses receiving venture capital money, bucking the overall trend of fewer available venture dollars.

New storage start-up peeks through the clouds
Jan. 15, 2009
A new storage start-up peeked out through the clouds last week - CTERA Networks is rolling out its CloudPlug device - an appliance the size of an AC adapter that connects PCs to cloud storage.

Start-up helps provision VoIP QoS
Nov. 07, 2005
Start-up helps provision VoIP QoS

Start-up takes fresh approach to backups
Jul. 18, 2005
Lasso Logic unveils continuous data protection

Buzz 2001: The anti-DDoS prescription, 09/24/01
Sep. 24, 2001
Combating distributed denial-of-service attacks is one of the most difficult network security problems. So start-ups that claim to have DDoS attacks licked tend to be greeted with skepticism.

Cloud computing in a bubble economy
Dec. 09, 2008
Cloud computing is the IT world's latest hot topic, and it's no secret why. In tough times, when capital expenditure budgets are under severe pressure, any pay-per-use solution looks like a winner.

Start-ups starting to feel economic pain
Nov. 25, 2008
I spoke this week with Justin Perreault, a general partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Waltham, Mass., about how enterprise IT start-ups are holding up against the tough economy. His investments include ...

Cybersecurity is focus of new University of Texas start-up incubator
Nov. 18, 2008
The University of Texas at San Antonio Tuesday announced a technology incubator aimed at fostering IT security-based start-ups within the state.

Network start-ups hurt as venture capital dries up
Oct. 23, 2008
Venture capital investment in network technology companies has hit its lowest point in a decade.

Can networking get real?
Oct. 22, 2008
If you looked recently at the companies started by venture capitalists and touted as the "next Cisco" or "next Google," you know the meaning of the term "bad ending."

Venture investor has high hopes despite economy
Oct. 21, 2008
At times, Tom Huseby almost sounded like he was giving a stump speech.

Virtual management start-ups weigh in on best practices
Oct. 20, 2008
Virtualization is a game-changing technology that has many IT managers looking for the best ways to roll out the technology on a large scale in their environments.

IPO dry spell could hurt tech start-ups
Oct. 06, 2008
There were zero venture capital-backed IPOs in the second quarter of 2008 - the first time that's happened in 30 years.

Free tools to manage, search virtual environments
Sep. 08, 2008
Start-up vendors looking to grab some of the management software spotlight at VMworld 2008 next week recently released free software downloads designed to help IT managers track and search data on virtual machines (VM).