MayaData and OpenEBS attracted $26 million investment.

MayaData vision of Kubernetes as a data plane takes off In this blog, I’d like to provide a little more context about the news that we have attracted $26 million in additional investment and discuss our partnership with DataCore Software that includes us welcoming to MayaData a proven team of engineers with over 150 years …

Stateless Unveils Networking Industry’s First Software-Defined Interconnect Platform

Gives Colocation and Cloud Managed Service Providers the Ability to Deliver, Control and Monetize Composable Layer 3+ Network Services to Interconnect Points BOULDER, Colo. – May 1, 2019 – Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, today announced Luxon – the industry’s first software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform. As the company’s inaugural product since emerging from …

Stateless Secures $11.33M in Series A Funding to Reinvent Data Center Connectivity.

BOULDER, Colo. – January 30, 2019 – Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, today announced it has raised $11.33 million in Series A funding. The investment is spurred by the rapid demand to extend connectivity beyond the data center and to connect workloads across data centers, hyperscale clouds and on-premises footprints. The oversubscribed Series …

Starting Games Twice As Fast Is Not Fast Enough

Over the last few weeks, I’ve spoken to a lot of game developers in the US and Europe about the challenges in game marketing and distribution. Games are getting larger, and audiences are increasingly hesitant to try new pay and free-to-play titles. Steam has relaxed all standards and the marketplace is extremely noisy – it’s …

The Fabric Expands into Europe

Co-creation foundry focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure companies brings its innovative venture model and approach to European upstarts. Mountain View, CA – May 9, 2018 – The Fabric, a pioneer in co-creating US-based cloud and IoT infrastructure companies, and EVO together announced a joint collaboration to build venture-backed startups in Europe. Through this strategic …

API becomes the primary interface for business

watch time: 18 minutes As the API or “application programming interface” becomes the primary interface for business (in much the same way physical storefronts gave way to applications and websites), we’re seeing a new chapter in the story of software emerge. While it’s playing out against the backdrop of other trends (microservices, software-defined networking, developers as …

EVO Venture Partners invests in OpsMx

OpsMx is an early stage venture-backed startup with the goal of accelerating software delivery with machine learning. OpsMx provides an in-depth data-driven risk assessment and diagnostics for software releases through continuous integration, testing, and deployment. OpsMx integrates with Jenkins, Spinnaker and other CI/CD tools and data collection tools like Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch etc. to provide …

Stateless Raises $1.4 Million to Make ‘Network-as-a-Service’ a Reality

Boulder, Colo. – Dec. 5, 2017 – Stateless, a Boulder, CO-based tech startup, has raised $1.4M in seed stage funding to support the growth of its network-as-a-service platform. The round was led by European VC Speedinvest, with additional capital coming from EVO Venture Partners, Techstars, PV Ventures, Service Provider Capital and a collection of angels. Stateless …

State and the Network Challenges It Creates

Today we have access to “cloud computing,” a fast and resilient way of offshoring several key network components. The cloud is what allows us to: Launch applications in a matter of seconds Adjust the amount of storage we have on demand instantaneously Scale the application in and out over time with minimum effort As billions of devices …

A More Distributed Cloud

As cloud providers have learned from the first several years of deploying cloud availability zones, network nodes, and access points,  they’re changing both the architecture of their cloud infrastructure and the edge of their deployments. “Edge” in this case means all the points where an individual cloud company’s network ends, handing off traffic to another …