Cisco is a technology company specializing in networking hardware, software, and telecommunications equipment. The company continues to offer a wide range of networking solutions, including routers, switches, network security products, wireless and mobility solutions, collaboration tools, data center technologies, and more. Cisco's products and services are still used by businesses, organizations, service providers, and individuals to build and manage networks, facilitate communication, and enhance connectivity across various industries.

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Intel is building on its unrivaled history of innovation to power the future of computing and communications. Intel's ambitions? A world that runs on Intel. Intel is doing this by helping its customers find the technologies and solutions that allow them to transform their businesses and gain market advantage. And it all starts with data. Intel is on a journey from a PC-centric company to a data-centric company. Intel's unmatched depth of experience and scope of vision allows it to dream big, to create a world where Intel powers the future of computing and communications—including powerful processors and accelerators that unlock the full potential of data. Intel continuously delivers advances in performance, power, and connectivity across a diversity of data-centric workloads, so its customers can harness the raw power of data. Intel's innovations span architecture, memory, software, and security to help develop transformative products and experiences for its customers. Collectively, Intel's 107,000 employees worldwide are enabling amazing experiences in 5G, artificial intelligence, driverless cars, and much more.

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 Puppet is a provider of infrastructure automation and configuration management software. With its flagship product, also named Puppet, the company helps organizations automate the management of their infrastructure, applications, and data.
 
 
 Puppet's software allows users to define infrastructure as code, meaning infrastructure configurations are expressed in code and can be version-controlled, shared, and reused. This approach enables organizations to automate the provisioning, deployment, and management of infrastructure at scale.
 
 
 Puppet primarily focuses on enterprise customers and offers commercial versions of its software with additional features, support, and enterprise-grade capabilities. It also provides professional services, including training, consulting, and support.
 
 
 Puppet was acquired by Perforce Software (a company that provides enterprise-scale software development tools and solutions) in 2022 but continues to operate as a separate enterprise.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Puppet is used across various industries, including technology, finance, healthcare, and government. Its customers range from small businesses to large enterprises, and it has a strong presence in both on-premises and cloud-based environments. Its notable customers include Walmart, Salesforce, Splunk, NYSE, Royal Bank of Scotland, NTT Data, and the NSA.
 
 
 Puppet collaborates with many technology partners to ensure compatibility and integration with various tools and platforms. Some of its key technology partners are VMware, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco, and Red Hat.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Puppet&rsquo;s latest funding was in 2020 from a USD 40 million debt round by Blackrock.
 
 
 
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 JFrog is a DevOps and software automation company providing a suite of solutions aimed at optimizing and accelerating software development processes.&nbsp;
 
 
 Artifactory by JFrog is a universal binary repository manager, enabling organizations to store, manage, and distribute software artifacts efficiently. JFrog's platform integrates seamlessly with various development tools, including CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated and streamlined software delivery. Additionally, its Xray product offers advanced security scanning and vulnerability analysis for enhanced code quality and security. With a commitment to automation, scalability, and security, JFrog plays a vital role in helping businesses achieve faster, more reliable software releases.
 
 
 The JFrog platform powers continuous updates. It claims to integrate with any development environment and works across open-source, on-premise, or any cloud.&nbsp;
 
 
 JFrog offers its platform through a subscription-based sales model.
 
 
 In 2021, JFrog acquired Upswift, a management solution for connected device fleets for an undisclosed sum, and Vdoo, an integrated security platform provider for connected IoT and embedded devices, for USD 300 million. Both companies were absorbed into JFrog.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Over 7,200 of JFrog&rsquo;s customers operate in industries such as finance, insurance, banking, health, retail, technology, mobile games, and esports. These include Yahoo, Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, Splunk, VMWare, Netflix, Google, Atlassian, Chef, and Woven Planet.
 
 
 Amazon Web Services (AWS), 4Data, Atlassian, CircleCI, Datadog, DevTools, Docker, Google Cloud, Gradle, HashiCorp, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, Red Hat OpenShift, Slack, Splunk, PagerDuty, Maven, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are among JFrog&rsquo;s partners.&nbsp;
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 JFrog&rsquo;s latest funding was in September 2020, raising an undisclosed amount in a post-IPO equity round.
 
 
 
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 Cloudify is an Israeli open-source, multi-cloud orchestration and automation platform.
 
 
 The Cloudify platform automates deployment, configuration, and day 2 operations and also operates as an Environment-as-a-Service (EaaS). Cloudify integrates with the cloud ecosystem, which includes cloud, tools, and technology integration; continuous integration, continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) and GitOps integration; and ServiceNow ITSM (IT service management) and designer flow integration.
 
 
 Cloudify offers its platform as a subscription-based service.
 
 
 In January 2023, Cloudify was acquired by technology company Dell for USD 100 million, but Cloudify continues to operate as a separate entity.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Cloudify&rsquo;s customers include Intel, Accenture, AT&amp;T, Vodafone, Fico, Morgan Stanley, Proximus, KPN, Telia, NetNumber, Atos, Infosys, HCL, F5, and DHL
 
 
 Among Cloudify&rsquo;s technology ecosystem partners are Jenkins, F5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), ServiceNow, CircleCI, Azure, Wind River, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Technology partners include 6WIND, Intel, VMWare, Lumina, NetNumber, Metaswitch, and Versa, while Atos, Coda, Amartus, Aptira, Kapsch, GRTH, Antillion, and OneComm are among Cloudify&rsquo;s technology integration partners.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Cloudify&rsquo;s latest funding was in December 2018 from a USD 7 million Series A round.
 
 
 
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A new generation for mobile connectivity with 5G and beyond

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 Cellwize is all about enabling the networks of the future today. With Chime, their cloudified and AI-driven RAN automation and orchestration platform, they enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to accelerate 5G network deployment and go-to-market, as well as the ROI on their network investments. Even in the most complex and dynamic of networkenvironments, Chime enables operators to connect to any application and any vendor, as well as co-create on top of the platform, delivering unprecedented ease, speed, and agility. With the future of 5G already here, Chime is helping leading MNOs all over the world to launch and leverage their next-generation networks and face the future with confidence. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Israel
 
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 Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G &amp; 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today&rsquo;s 4G and 5G networks. Cohere is the inventor of OTFS for 6G. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California.
 
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 Based in California, Israel and France and founded by longtime field-experts, JFrog is the creator of Artifactory and Bintray; the company that provided the market with the first Binary Repository solution and software distribution social platform. 
 Through its flagship product Artifactory, JFrog has changed the way developers and DevOps team store and manage binary code, allowing for complete control over the full software release flow. JFrog continues to set the software industry standard with Bintray, today's leading software distribution platform which offers a developer centric, social platform for storage and distribution of software libraries.
 
 JFrog's end-to-end solution&mdash;from Development to Distribution&mdash;is a vital part of a faster, more efficient application development and release processes that leads today's Continuous Integration and Deployment space.
 
 JFrog&rsquo;s audience is both software developers and DevOps teams. The company positioned itself between these two groups and managing one of their common challenges in software artifacts, JFrog is at the hub of the Devops domain where development and IT operations meet.
 
 JFrog aspires to set the world&rsquo;s Software Distribution standards!
 
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Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of your software, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities.

Cohere Technologies is a leading pioneer for software enhanced 4G & 5G networks. The company has developed a 3GPP compliant software solution to dramatically improve today’s 4G and 5G networks. Cohere is the inventor of OTFS for 6G. Founded in 2009, Cohere Technologies is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn the violin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists. It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

Cellwize is all about enabling the networks of the future today. With Chime, their cloudified and AI-driven RAN automation and orchestration platform, they enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to accelerate 5G network deployment and go-to-market, as well as the ROI on their network investments. Even in the most complex and dynamic of network environments, Chime enables operators to connect to any application and any vendor, as well as co-create on top of the platform, delivering unprecedented ease, speed, and agility. With the future of 5G already here, Chime is helping leading MNOs all over the world to launch and leverage their next-generation networks and face the future with confidence. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Israel

Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools. The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizational boundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges. In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan.

QED-it helps businesses accelerate trust with Zero-Knowledge Blockchains. It also developed Zero-Knowledge Blockchain, a protocol which combines Enterprise Blockchain with Zero-Knowledge Proof cryptography. Mentored by Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (Turing Award 2012) who co-invented Zero-Knowledge Proofs, this team of world-renowned experts in cryptography, security and blockchain tackles several use-cases. The company provides an enterprise solution for preserving privacy on the Blockchain. QED-it allows clients to can keep their data private and at the same time share proofs about these data with partners, and even with competitors in their ecosystem. They also solve the confidentiality tradeoff using scalable Zero-Knowledge Proof technology. It also enables running audit queries such as credit and risk scoring without revealing the underlying private data used to calculate the score QED-it was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Cloudify provides universal core-to-edge orchestration that enables service providers and enterprises to automate, manage and virtually transform their network and application services from their core location to branches and multi-access edge devices. Cloudify radically simplifies end-to-end network automation through its open source, intent-based orchestration platform, which connects and manages distributed containers, network elements, and edge devices on physical servers or the cloud — all under a common automation scheme. With its award-winning TOSCA-based technology, Cloudify ensures flexibility, prevents vendor lock-in, and reduces cost and time.  Cloudify has headquarters in Herzliya, Israel, and offices in the US and Europe. Visit us at cloudify.co to learn more.

Puppet is an information technology company. They provide automation solutions for configuration management, compliance, CI, CD, patch management, and IT automation. Their software tools include development, management, version control, and code-analysis technologies and services.

HyTrust was founded by veterans in the enterprise infrastructure and security space who recognized early on not only that virtualization and the cloud were going to dramatically transform the data center, but also that security would be a critical inhibitor to cloud adoption. The mission behind HyTrust has always been to mitigate the risk of catastrophic data center failure and data breaches — especially in light of the concentration of risk that occurs within virtualized and cloud environments. Organizations can now confidently expand virtualization to mission critical applications and take full advantage of the cloud. HyTrust has assembled a world-class team of company builders and innovators and has earned venture backing from the biggest players in the next-generation datacenter: Cisco, VMware, Intel, Fortinet, and In-Q-Tel, the funding arm of the US intelligence community.  Further venture investment has come from highly respected firms such as Trident Capital, Sway Ventures, Epic Ventures, Advanced Venture Partners and Granite Ventures.

ObservIQ offers observability solutions for modern IT environments. The company prioritizes addressing log data acquisition challenges by offering innovative open-source products designed with a primary focus on performance and configurability. Originally known as Blue Medora, the observIQ team has spent over a decade creating metric and log integrations for top organizations in the field of observability. In 2020, Blue Medora has become observIQ.

Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services. Its Cloud Native platform drives software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands. With millions of developers in communities around the world, Pivotal technology touches billions of users every day. After shaping the software development culture of Silicon Valley's most valuable companies for over a decade, today Pivotal leads a global technology movement transforming how the world builds software.

Aria helps enterprises grow recurring revenue businesses with an agile billing system. The company helps clients to take advantage of each customer-driven event − known as revenue moments − with agile billing, active customer engagement, and the rapid development of new products and services. With Aria's end-to-end active monetization platform, global brands can get to market faster with a wider variety of products and services, while maximizing customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value.

Based in California, Israel and France and founded by longtime field-experts, JFrog is the creator of Artifactory and Bintray; the company that provided the market with the first Binary Repository solution and software distribution social platform.  Through its flagship product Artifactory, JFrog has changed the way developers and DevOps team store and manage binary code, allowing for complete control over the full software release flow. JFrog continues to set the software industry standard with Bintray, today's leading software distribution platform which offers a developer centric, social platform for storage and distribution of software libraries.  JFrog's end-to-end solution—from Development to Distribution—is a vital part of a faster, more efficient application development and release processes that leads today's Continuous Integration and Deployment space.  JFrog’s audience is both software developers and DevOps teams. The company positioned itself between these two groups and managing one of their common challenges in software artifacts, JFrog is at the hub of the Devops domain where development and IT operations meet.  JFrog aspires to set the world’s Software Distribution standards!

CENX, provides interconnect services for the new generation of Ethernet-based backhaul networks. Awarded by multiple leading publications for its innovation, CENX's Ethernet Backhaul Management Service aggregates and translates different Ethernet backhaul services from multiple access providers to all cell sites in a given market. CENX provides a normalized Carrier Ethernet handoff to a given wireless provider enabling ubiquitous 4G-LTE Ethernet backhaul coverage to all cell sites in that market. CENX manages the entire circuit life cycle, yielding better quality of service, reduced CapEx and a level of monitoring of Ethernet Backhaul service traffic that has not been feasible previously. CENX's investors include its management and a number of leading firms, including DCM (whose co-founder, Dixon Doll, is the Chairman of the CENX Board of Directors), Highland Capital Partners and Mesirow Financial. Through its work in the MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) and in the industry, the CENX management team has played a critical role in the definition of standards and the development of the Carrier Ethernet market over the past ten years.

Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution.  The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourceful mobile apps.  Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions.  The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures.   Crittercism was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #2** in 2011

Aria Systems offers a cloud-based monetization platform for subscription and usage-based businesses.

Maginatics simplifies and modernizes enterprise storage with a software-only solution that brings the agility and economics of object storage (“cloud storage”) into the enterprise in a way that meets the most stringent security, scalability, and data accessibility requirements. Their solution addresses applications and workloads for both traditional and mobile users without disrupting existing workflows. They solve business-critical problems that include secure and scalable file sharing and collaboration, NAS transformation, and optimized migration to the cloud of scale-out workloads such as genomic analyses in the Life Sciences, render farms in Media and Entertainment, and large-scale Web server farms across industries. Maginatics was founded in 2010 and is based in Mountain View, California.

FeedHenry provides a cloud-based Mobile Application Platform that enables the development, deployment, integration and management of secure mobile apps for business. The subscription-based Mobile Application Platform allows apps to be developed in standard web technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS) and deployed across all major mobile devices and mobile web. In addition to development and public app store deployment, this end-to-end solution provides Enterprise app store distribution, server-side business logic and integration, secure connectivity to backend systems and full app lifecycle management and reporting.

CloudEndure® provides Disaster Recovery and Live Migration for all applications, allowing enterprises to mobilize entire workloads to and across clouds with near-zero downtime and no data loss. Our Live Workload Mobility technology provides continuous, block-level replication and application stack orchestration — at the touch of a button, within minutes, and with the latest data. CloudEndure supports physical, virtual, and cloud-based infrastructure as sources and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and Oracle Cloud as target cloud locations. Whether you are seeking a Disaster Recovery solution or Migration tool, or both, CloudEndure ensures all your systems are always available. CloudEndure – All Systems Go.™

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (formerly Square, Inc.) is a technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.

Nimbula, the cloud OS company, delivers a new class of cloud infrastructure software enabling enterprises and service providers to build private, public or hybrid clouds. Nimbula Director, Nimbula’s flagship product, is scalable, highly automated, easy to use and provides complete control over your cloud.   Nimbula is a software company founded by Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, the team that developed the industry-leading Amazon EC2, and is backed by a solid team of leading investors, including Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.  Nimbula has joined the OpenStack Foundation to deliver the most advanced cloud software. Read more here: http://blog.nimbula.com/corporate/2012/10/a-new-chapter-nimbula-joins-openstack/   Nimbula is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has a development team in South Africa.   Nimbula was Acquiredby Oracle Corp. last year.

VCE is an EMC Federation Company with investments from Cisco and VMware.  VCE, through Vblock:tm: Systems, provides an optimized information technology system that accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for customers.  VCE products enable IT organizations to:  Standardize processes and applications  Improve utilization and lower operational costs  Accelerate technology adoption and innovation  Maximize adaptability and investment protection  Vblock Systems are available through an extensive partner network. They support horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure.

VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that help complex digital infrastructure. The company accelerates digital transformation by enabling unprecedented freedom and flexibility in how its customers build and evolve IT environments. Its software helps business users simply and securely access the apps and data they need, from anywhere, to do their best work. The company's software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace.  VMware was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

<div> VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that help complex digital infrastructure. The company accelerates digital transformation by enabling unprecedented freedom and flexibility in how its customers build and evolve IT environments. Its software helps business users simply and securely access the apps and data they need, from anywhere, to do their best work. The company\'s software spans compute, cloud, networking and security, and digital workspace. VMware was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. </div>

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