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Cloud-native Tech

Progress Chef (formerly Chef Software) provides infrastructure automation solutions to automate the configuration, deployment, and management of cloud infrastructure.One of their key offerings is Chef Infra, an open-source automation platform that allows users to define and maintain their infrastructure as code. By describing desired system configurations using a domain-specific language (DSL) called Chef DSL (built on top of Ruby), organizations can automate the provisioning and configuration of servers, ensuring consistency across environments.In addition to Chef Infra, Chef offers other products in its portfolio, including Chef Automate for continuous automation and compliance, Chef Habitat for application automation, and Chef Workstation for managing Chef code and workflows.Chef follows a subscription-based model and is available through cloud marketplaces such as Azure and AWS.The company was acquired by software developer Progress in 2020 for USD 220 million. Despite the renaming, the company continues to operate independently.Key customers and partnershipsChef Infra’s key customers include IBM, Meta, Rakuten, Target, and SAP.Chef has partnerships with most major cloud service providers. These include AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and VMware.

Scality is a provider of object storage solutions that store, manage, and protect large data sets.Scality offers a scalable object storage platform called RING, which allows organizations to build large-scale storage clusters that can handle petabytes to exabytes of data. The RING architecture ensures high availability, durability, and resiliency, enabling businesses to store and access their data.Scality's solutions provide robust data protection features, including data replication and erasure coding techniques. Furthermore, its solutions integrate with existing IT infrastructure and support industry-standard protocols.Scality’s sales model is a combination of direct sales and partnerships.Key customers and partnershipsScality serves companies ranging from startups to large enterprises across various industries. This list includes HP Enterprise, Polish Railways, University Hospital Basel, Comcast, and Daily Motion.Scality has alliances with many prominent companies in the industry, either as application partnerships (Veeam, Splunk, Oracle, Philips, and Rubrik) or cloud partnerships (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Wasabi).

Platform9 is an open-distributed cloud company that offers solutions for managing hybrid clouds, Kubernetes, and more. Platform9 offers several products and solutions, including Managed Kubernetes, Managed OpenStack, and Managed Bare Metal.Managed Kubernetes allows businesses to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure, while Managed OpenStack offers a simplified way to deploy and manage private clouds. Managed Bare Metal enables businesses to run Kubernetes, OpenStack, and other workloads on dedicated hardware with bare-metal performance.Platform9 claims to deliver a seamless Kubernetes experience across any infrastructure. Platform9's SaaS-managed Kubernetes solution offers a single view to manage Kubernetes clusters running on any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, including bare metal servers, vSphere, and public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure, providing customers with a unified Kubernetes experience. In addition, Platform9 offers automated security patching, on-demand upgrades, self-healing clusters, multi-version support, and audit logging.Platform9 has a subscription-based sales model. It offers its services on a pay-as-you-go basis, with pricing based on the number of managed nodes or instances, with optional add-ons for additional features and support.Key customers and partnershipsPlatform9 targets enterprise customers who run and manage Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies on distributed cloud services, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. Its customers typically include large organizations with complex IT environments, such as financial services, healthcare, technology, and retail companies.As of mid-2022, Platform9 catered to more than 60 enterprise clients and powered 40,000 nodes across private, public, and edge clouds.Platform9 has partnerships with various cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Additionally, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32723">August 2024</a>, Platform9 partnered with Fairwinds, a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service provider, to tackle issues related to Kubernetes over-provisioning and cost management costs in public cloud deployments.

Quantum information processing is slowly becoming a reality, ushering in a new technological era.

Quantum Computing

Israel-based quantum software company Classiq offers a comprehensive software platform, which includes an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), compiler, and operating system (OS), providing a single point of entry into quantum computing. It enables programmers to develop quantum algorithms incorporating automation and synthesis technology, which enables the automatic translation of human ideas into quantum circuits. This will allow programmers to focus on high-level creative coding instead of spending long hours on low-end gate-level coding.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31935">July 2024</a>, Classiq announced the general availability of Qmod (Quantum Modeling Language), the first high-level language for quantum coding enabling access to developers, researchers, and enterprises worldwide.Classiq is known for its unique approach that combines high-level algorithmic design with hardware-aware quantum circuit compilation. This method facilitates the development of sophisticated quantum applications without requiring deep expertise in quantum physics.Key customers and partnershipsClassiq’s partnerships include <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31934">QuEra Computing</a> (July 2024) to integrate QuEra's neutral-atom quantum computers into Classiq's platform; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30103">Mphasis</a> (June 2024) to explore quantum computing across banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), life sciences, healthcare, supply chain, logistics, and chemistry; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28207">Quantum Intelligence Corp</a> (QIC; April 2024) to speed up drug development using quantum computing in pharmacology; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27391">Alice &amp; Bob </a>(March 2024) to integrate Alice &amp; Bob's cat-qubit technology into Classiq's platform; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24795">Oxford Quantum Circuits</a> (OQC) UK (December 2023) to simplify the adoption and execution of advanced quantum computing across industries and research fields; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23860">Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and NVIDIA</a> (November 2023) to launch a new initiative, Quantum Computing for Life Sciences and Healthcare Center; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16255">Microsoft</a> (February 2023) to launch a global quantum academic program for researchers and educational institutions; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14870">Q-CTRL </a>(November 2022) to develop an end-to-end platform to accelerate quantum algorithm designing and analysis; and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13866">Rolls-Royce</a> (October 2022) to leverage quantum and classical computing techniques to design and develop novel computational fluid dynamics.

IonQ develops general-purpose quantum computers using trapped-ion technology. Although the company calls itself a full-stack player, its focus has been on developing hardware. In December 2020, it revealed its quantum roadmap that introduced its new metric, “algorithmic qubits (AQ),” which represents the largest number of qubits that can be deployed while maintaining high performance and considering error correction. Its latest system IonQ Aria achieved 20 AQ, as of May 2023. In terms of physical qubits, IonQ’s latest hardware had 32 qubits, which were expected to hold 22 AQs. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23125">October 2023 </a>, the company achieved 29 algorithmic qubits (AQ) using barium qubits for the first time.Founded in 2015, IonQ’s main competitive advantage stems from its approach to designing qubits that allow computers to be operated at room temperature with lower error rates.&nbsp;IonQ unveiled the industry’s first glass-based trapped ion computing chip called the Reconfigurable Multicore Quantum Architecture (RMQA) technology, in August 2021, which the company believes will significantly expand the longevity of qubits and enable at least triple-digit scalability.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31824">July 2024 </a>, the company unveiled an accelerated roadmap with expanded 2025 technical milestones, focused on improving native two-qubit gate performance to over 99.9% (three 9s) in 2025, with further gains expected in 2026 from the transition to barium qubits.Key customers and partnershipsIonQ has entered several strategic partnership including with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25925">Rescale </a>(January 2024) to combine their cloud computing and quantum computing capabilities; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22265">Air Force Research Lab </a>(September 2023) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development in a deal valued at USD 25.5 million; <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21158">BearingPoint </a>(August 2023) to offer its quantum systems and related professional services to the European market; SoftBank Investment Advisers (June 2021) to provide support in deploying the company’s quantum systems globally; and Accenture (September 2021) to accelerate the industrial application of IonQ’s quantum systems.The company offers access to its quantum computer via all major quantum cloud computing platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Marketplace (GCM). It is also integrated with major software development kits (SDK) including IBM Qiskit and Google Cirq. In May 2023, IonQ began offering its IonQ Aria system on Amazon Braket.

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Tamr is a provider of data mastering solutions that helps organizations consolidate and clean messy source data into analytics-ready datasets. The company's cloud-native platform uses machine learning combined with human expertise to unify data across multiple silos and generate business insights. Tamr's technology employs patented human-guided machine learning to perform data mastering tasks like schema mapping and entity resolution simultaneously, reducing typical implementation times from 18+ months to weeks. As of January 2024, their core product offering includes Tamr Mastering, which uses data product templates for consolidating messy source data, and Tamr Enrich, a set of enrichment services built into the data mastering process. The platform leverages Google Cloud technologies including Cloud Dataproc, Cloud Bigtable, and BigQuery for scaling modern data pipelines. Research revealed that 78% of surveyed businesses focus on improving customer data quality and breaking down data silos. The company has been awarded 16 patents since its founding, with its most recent patent focusing on large-scale data curation.
Key customers and partnerships
Tamr's customer base spans multiple industries including financial services, retail, manufacturing, and life sciences. Notable customers include Toyota, Western Union, GSK, Societe Generale, and Carnival. In January 2022, Tamr partnered with Enigma to provide companies with unified views of small and medium businesses, giving customers access to data about more than 30 million small and medium businesses. In May 2019, the company formed a strategic partnership with In-Q-Tel to help government agencies address data unification challenges. Tamr also works with various US government agencies.

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform designed to help users explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics data and allows businesses to create, consume, and operationalize data-driven insights through its consumer-grade search and AI technology. The platform offers self-service analytics designed to be accessible to a broad user base, including ThoughtSpot Everywhere, a developer-friendly, cloud-integrated environment for data app building.Its platform allows users to create new insights on-demand, analyze large volumes of data for anomalies and trends, and generate actionable insights from cloud data. Key features include integration with cloud data platforms for live querying, scaling according to business demand, and industry-leading cloud security and governance controls.ThoughtSpot acquired business intelligence startup Mode Analytics for USD 200 million in June 2023. Through the acquisition, Mode became a fully owned subsidiary of ThoughtSpot, combining the two companies’ capabilities in GenAI app development with an expected annual recurring revenue (ARR) of USD 150 million and doubling ThoughtSpot’s customer base.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThoughtSpot serves various industry leaders who build their businesses on data across multiple sectors and industries. As of September 2024, notable customers included Coca-Cola, CVS Pharmacy, Capital One, T-Mobile, Comcast, Chewy, and Accern.In terms of partnerships, ThoughtSpot collaborated in March 2023 with Google Cloud to bring its solution to Google Cloud Marketplace and Looker to integrate its platform with Looker’s semantic modeling tool. Another partnership was announced with dbt Labs in December 2022, which was aimed at launching self-service analytics for analytics engineers. As of November 2023, other partners included Accenture, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Snowflake.

AI-based solutions for evolving digital threats

Next-gen Cybersecurity

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 Cequence Security offers a platform for enterprises to safeguard their APIs and web applications from bot attacks by detecting and mitigating them in real-time. The platform also provides protection against account takeover, unauthorized data access, fraudulent transactions, and fake account creation. The company uses its proprietary CQAI analytics engine that leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect malicious traffic and bot attacks.
 
 
 As of June 2021, the company has also partnered with AWS, Fastly, Gigamon, and Okta to enhance its product offerings. These deals allow Cequence to bundle offer API and web application security alongside its partners&rsquo; products.
 
 
 Following the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the company recorded a growth of 2.5x and claims to have recorded a &ldquo;pretty high ARR&rdquo; in 2020. As of December 2021, the company doubled its customer base year-over-year (YoY), and served more than 85 global brands including several Fortune 100 and 500 companies such as T-Mobile, Est&eacute;e Laude, and American Express. The company also had an employee headcount of over 100, which it intends to expand to over 250 by 2022.
 
 
 In December 2021, the company raised USD 60 million in a Series C funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The company expected to utilize the funds to expand its product features, product portfolio (with plans to launch a new self-service subscription solution in 2022), team, co-marketing activities, and global presence in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
 
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A new generation of building blocks for emerging tech

Next-gen Semiconductors

Ayar Labs is a Silicon Valley-based company developing optical interconnect solutions for chip-to-chip communications. The company's core technology replaces traditional copper-based electrical interconnects with silicon photonics-based optical I/O, enabling significantly higher bandwidth, lower latency, and reduced power consumption in data transfer between chips. Ayar Labs' flagship products include the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet and the SuperNova light source. The TeraPHY chiplet integrates alongside host processors to convert electrical signals to optical, allowing data transmission via fiber optics. As of March 2024, Ayar Labs demonstrated a 16 Tbps bi-directional bandwidth solution, capable of driving 256 optical carriers - a level of performance crucial for AI workloads. The company's technology aims to address bandwidth bottlenecks in various applications, including artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, data centers, and telecommunications. Ayar Labs utilizes a chiplet architecture, designed to be packaged with compute tiles from other chipmakers using open standards like Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-express). The company's optical I/O technology is manufactured by GlobalFoundries using its GF Fotonix platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Ayar Labs has secured strategic partnerships with several industry leaders. The company is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop next-generation AI infrastructure based on optical I/O technology. This partnership aims to address the increasing bandwidth demands of AI and machine learning workloads. Ayar Labs is also working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to enhance future versions of HPE's Slingshot interconnect switching systems. The collaboration focuses on developing high-performance networking solutions and novel disaggregated system architectures. Additionally, Ayar Labs has partnered with Corning Incorporated to create an optical leadership solution by coupling Ayar Labs' TeraPHY optical I/O chiplets with Corning's glass waveguide module. Ericsson is also involved in this AI-driven solution as part of their technology exploration for future mobile systems. Furthermore, Ayar Labs is working with Teramount to showcase a concept for the next-generation TeraVERSE detachable connector, designed to meet the infrastructure demands of next-generation AI.

Empowering Tomorrow's Innovations with Generative AI Infrastructure

Generative AI Infrastructure

Ayar Labs develops optical interconnect solutions using silicon photonics to replace traditional copper-based electrical interconnects. Its core products, the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet and SuperNova light source, enable higher bandwidth, lower latency, and reduced power consumption for AI, HPC, data centers, and telecom applications.&nbsp;Notably, the TeraPHY claims to be the industry’s first in-package optical I/O. It claims to have 5x–10x higher bandwidth, is 4x–8x more power-efficient, and has 10x lower latency than traditional interconnect solutions. The company also utilizes Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology to increase the amount of data transmitted over a single optical fiber by using multiple wavelengths (or channels) of light.&nbsp;Ayar Labs' chiplet architecture integrates with compute tiles using open standards like UCI-express and is manufactured by GlobalFoundries on its GF Fotonix platform.Key customers and partnershipsNotable customers leveraging Ayar Labs solutions included Intel, NVIDIA, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (December 2024).Notable customers leveraging Ayar Labs solutions included Intel, NVIDIA, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (December 2024).In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/37499">December 2024</a>, Ayar Labs partnered with Sivers Semiconductors to focus on manufacturing readiness of Sivers' high-precision laser arrays for Ayar Labs' in-package optical interconnect solution, aimed at addressing bandwidth bottlenecks in AI infrastructure.In&nbsp;<a href="https://ayarlabs.com/resources/revolutionary-optics-glass-waveguide-redefine-ai-telecom-data-center-infrastructures/">March 2024</a>, Ayar Labs and Corning, with Ericsson as a partner, developed an integrated optical solution combining Ayar's TeraPHY chiplets and Corning's glass waveguide module for low-latency, energy-efficient connectivity in AI, 6G, data centers, and compute-intensive applications. Ayar Labs also partnered with Teramount in&nbsp;<a href="https://ayarlabs.com/news/ayar-labs-to-showcase-optical-interconnect-solutions-to-redefine-ai-at-ofc-2024/">March 2024</a> to showcase a concept for the TeraVERSE detachable connector to meet the infrastructure demands of GenAI workloads.&nbsp;Earlier, in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lumentum.com/en/media-room/news-releases/lumentum-and-ayar-labs-announce-strategic-collaboration-supply-external">2022</a>, it partnered with Lumentum to secure high-volume CW-WDM lasers for its energy-efficient optical I/O solutions.

Arcion is the cloud-native, zero-code data mobility platform to help deploy high-performance, real-time data pipelines.

Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.

Cequence is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company founded in 2014 and based in Sunnyvale, California. Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2018, the company has developed the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) Platform, unifying API discovery, compliance, and testing with real-time detection and native prevention to protect customers’ web, mobile, and API applications against attacks, business logic abuse, and fraud. The Cequence UAP solution provides a complete API security platform that allows customers to discover their APIs, ensure they are security compliant, and protect them from attacks in real time. Cequence Security customers include Fortune and Global 500 organizations across multiple vertical markets. The executive team is led by industry veterans that previously held leadership positions at Palo Alto Networks and Symantec.

Classiq Technologies, the leading quantum software company, provides an all-encompassing software platform (IDE, compiler and OS) with a single point of entry into quantum computing, from algorithm design to execution. Tailored to all levels of developer proficiency, Classiq aims to democratize access to quantum computing with software that equips customers to take full advantage of the quantum computing revolution. A low-code development environment that automates quantum programming ensures that a broader range of talents, including those with backgrounds in AI, ML and linear algebra, can harness quantum computing without requiring deep, specialized knowledge of how to program quantum computer hardware. Classiq also works closely with advanced computation hardware providers providing software for use with quantum computers, HPC and quantum simulators. Backed by powerful investors such as HPE, HSBC, Samsung, Intesa Sanpaolo and NTT, Classiq’s world-class team of scientists and engineers has distilled decades of quantum expertise into its groundbreaking software development platform.

SafeBreach is a pioneer in the emerging category of breach and attack simulation. The company's groundbreaking platform provides a “hacker's view” of an enterprise’s security posture to proactively predict attacks, validate security controls and improve SOC analyst response. SafeBreach automatically executes breach methods with an extensive and growing Hacker’s Playbook of research and real-world investigative data. SafeBreach is funded by Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder and investor Shlomo Kramer.

IONQ develops general-purpose quantum information processors to solve the world’s complex problems. Its unique trapped ion approach combines unmatched physical performance, perfect qubit replication, optical networkability, and highly optimized algorithms to create a quantum computer that is as scalable as it is powerful and that will support a broad array of applications across a variety of industries. It was founded in 2015 and is based in College Park, Maryland.

Platform9 is a open distributed cloud service, offering the power of the public cloud on infrastructure of customers’ choice, powered by Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies.   Platform9 offers a way to go cloud-native. Platform9’s service powers 40K+ nodes across private, public, and edge clouds. Platform9 is an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by leading investors. Platform 9 was established in 2013 by Sirish Raghuram in Mountain View, California.

Tamr is an enterprise data unification company that is accessible to any enterprise. Tamr team began building a commercial-grade solution designed to tackle the challenge of connecting and enriching diverse data at scale and cost-effectively. Tamr is deployed in production at a variety of organizations, including information services providers, pharmaceutical firms, and retailers. Tamr, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was founded in 2013 by database industry veterans Andy Palmer, Mike Stonebraker, and Ihab Ilyas with George Beskales, Daniel Bruckner, and Alex Pagan.

Hedvig, formerly Quexascale is re-architecting software-defined storage. Built by software engineers of the world's largest and most successful distributed systems, Hedvig delivers modern storage for any enterprise compute environment running at any scale. The Hedvig platform is the only software-defined storage solution with true distributed systems DNA, unconstrained by traditional thinking and existing architectures that can't keep pace with scale-out applications and the velocity of change in today's business climate. What makes Hedvig unique? Put simply: Hedvig gets better and smarter as it scales. Hedvig defies conventional wisdom, transforming commodity hardware into the most advanced storage solution available today. Hedvig accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized storage pool that provisions storage with a few clicks, scales to petabytes, and runs seamlessly in both private and public clouds.

ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. ThoughtSpot's mission is to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform.  With ThoughtSpot, anyone can leverage natural language search to ask and answer data questions with confidence. ThoughtSpot enables everyone within an organization to limitlessly engage with live data in any major cloud data platform, making it easy to create and interact with granular, hyper-personalized, and actionable insights. Customers can take advantage of both ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications to improve decision-making for every employee, wherever and whenever decisions are made.  With ThoughtSpot’s low-code developer-friendly platform, ThoughtSpot Embedded, customers can also embed AI-Powered Analytics to their products and services, monetizing their data and engaging users to keep them coming back for more.  Organizations like Capital One, Comcast, Cigna, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, and Unilever rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data. ThoughtSpot is recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms. The company was co-founded in 2012 by its CEO Ajeet Singh and six other technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. It is based in Palo Alto, CA, and is currently expanding operations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. ThoughtSpot’s mission is to enable analytics at a ''human scale'' and put search-driven analytics in the hands of 20M users by 2020.

Keen is the embedded analytics API that makes shipping custom user-facing analytics easy and seamless. It develops tools and infrastructure to help developers deliver in-product analytics to their customers. Its platform can handle all aspects of event data management, from collection to application. Keen enables users to stream, store, query, and present data all in one place and get a competitive advantage over the competition.  The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

Hexadite is changing the way cyber incident response is done, with a fully automated incident response solution that enables organizations to investigate every cyber-alert they receive and close out incidents in minutes, even seconds. Built from the ground up, the Hexadite Automated Incident Response Solution (AIRS™) maximizes an enterprise’s ability to investigate all cyber-alerts, uncover hidden threats and remediate the full extent of a breach to increase the organization’s productivity, reduce ongoing costs, and strengthen the organization's overall security.

Chef is a leader in Continuous Automation software, an innovator in cloud-native operations, and one of the founders of the DevOps movement. Chef works with more than a thousand of the most innovative companies around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation, providing the practices and platform to deliver software at speed.  It’s flagship platform, Chef Automate, unifies infrastructure and applications work and enables enterprise organizations to rapidly and securely build, deploy and manage any application, legacy, or modern, in any environment.  Its Habitat application automation product supports an ever-widening array of application release scenarios, enabling teams to ‘build, deploy and manage’ any app, anywhere. It is ideally suited to ‘Lift, Shift and Modernize’ initiatives as enterprises seek to find a unified way to ship all of their apps – from monoliths to microservices, bare metal to containers, and datacenter to cloud.  InSpec, designed to enable compliance at velocity to accelerate DevSecOps, is the first step in Chef’s ‘Detect, Correct, Automate’ approach to cloud migration and continuous automation. It helps organizations maintain an up-to-date view of compliance status in production, detect security issues long before they reach production, and reduce risk while delivering applications faster.  Chef open source enables users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring that configuration policy is flexible, versionable, testable, and human-readable. Servers managed by Chef are continuously evaluated against their desired state, ensuring that configuration drift is automatically corrected, and configuration changes are universally applied. Used in concert, Chef products do more, better and faster to enable cross-functional development, operations, and security teams to develop, deploy and manage software in the cloud than any other DevOps product suite available today.

Scality is the industry leader in petabyte-scale, software-defined storage.   Founded in 2009, Scality software-based RING storage delivers billions of files to five hundred million users daily with 100% availability. The RING makes standard x86 servers scale to hundreds of petabytes and billions of objects. The RING’s end-to-end parallel architecture provides unsurpassed performance, while its patented object storage core increases availability and durability and dramatically reduces operational costs. The RING integrates with applications through standard storage protocols such as NFS; S3; OpenStack Swift and Cinder. Scality’s customers include four of the world's largest media and telecommunications companies, and  market leaders throughout the US, EU, and Japan.  Scality’s customers include four of the top ten cable operators in the US, the second largest Telco in France, leading portals in Italy, Germany, and UK, mobile operators in Japan, and the second largest online video site in the world.

Shapeways is a 3D printing marketplace and community. The NY-based company harnesses 3D printing to help anyone turn ideas into a physical reality, making product design more accessible, personal, and inspiring. Shapeways prints everything on-demand, which means that every order is customized and personalized. By providing a platform for community members to gain access to cutting-edge 3D printing technology and share their designs with the world, Shapeways is democratizing creation for everyone.  Headquartered in New York with offices in Eindhoven and Seattle, Shapeways is a spin-out of the lifestyle incubator of Royal Philips Electronics. Investors include Union Square Ventures in New York and Index Ventures in London.

Coho Data is delivering true linear scale-out infrastructure solutions for the enterprise private cloud.  The Coho DataStream platform offers an integrated SDDC solution that uses the rack as its design paradigm, creating an entirely new foundational software stack that is better equipped to run, manage and optimize data center operations. Coho makes the infrastructure invisible by abstracting and converging storage, network and compute at the rack level, thereby allowing for the right mix of resources for varied application demands. Coho’s unique Software-Defined Networking (SDN) integration delivers true scale out storage performance, secure multi-tenancy, operational simplicity, and overall ease of management.  Coho Data is a leader in rack-scale converged infrastructure for the enterprise, combining SDN, SDS and commodity hardware that enables companies to bring the efficiency and flexibility of the public cloud into on-premise data centers. The Coho DataStream platform uniquely delivers true scale-out storage performance, unparalleled simplicity and a 75 percent reduction in TCO. The Coho DataStream architecture is optimized for virtual private clouds, containers and “New IT” workloads such as Big Data-as-a-Service.

Founded in 2012 by cyber defense veterans, Adallom, a 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor, is a cloud access security broker which delivers visibility, governance and protection for cloud applications. Its innovative platform is simple to deploy, seamless to users, and is available as a SaaS-based or on-prem solution. Powered by SmartEngine™ advanced heuristics and backed by an elite cybersecurity research team, Adallom makes it easy to protect data in the cloud. Adallom is an abbreviation of the Hebrew saying “Ad Halom” which literally means “up to here” or “the last line of defense.” For more information, visit www.adallom.com or follow @adallom.

Hortonworks is a commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing, and analyzing big data. Hortonworks Data Platform, powered by Apache Hadoop, provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Hortonworks is the trusted source for information on Hadoop, and together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage, and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training, and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors.

As of June 13, 2005, Speedera Networks, Inc. was acquired by Akamai Technologies Inc. Speedera Networks, Inc. provides distributed application hosting and content delivery services for organizations in both industry and government sectors. Its family of on-demand services solves the performance, scalability, availability, and security problems of distributed applications and Web sites. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Everdream Corporation provides on-demand personal computer desktop management software services internationally. It offers compliance software services suite that provides visibility into hardware and software assets, tracks software license usage, and automates the distribution of software to ensure regulatory compliance to the computers; and uptime software services suite that provides protection against Internet attacks, hackers, and loss of critical data through malware protection, patch management, and online data backup services. The company also provides information technology support software services, such as on-demand employee service desk solutions and remote control services, as well as offers managed services. Everdream Corporation has operational facilities in Dallas, Texas; and Charlotte, North Carolina.   The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. As of December 20, 2007, Everdream Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Dell Inc.

TManage Inc. provides managed access, virtual private network (VPN) and security services that enable enterprises to securely and cost-effectively connect remote, mobile and branch offices to corporate resources.

HomesThatClick places your property on the Multiple Listing Service™ and Realtor.com®, the primary tools used by Realtors® and homebuyers for locating potential purchase properties. And as they have automated the sales process through their proprietary technology, they can provide substantial savings through lower commission rates.

Myspace.com is dedicated to delivering the highest degree of innovation, reliability and service in the online data storage market to consumers and businesses. Their goal is to deliver an affordable easy to use file storage, collaboration and management system which can be accessed 24/7 worldwide. Founded in 1999, myspace(formerly FreeDiskSpace.com) is a privately held online information management company headquartered in San Francisco. Myspace provides users with convenient, worldwide access to their files through the Internet, offering businesses and consumers a variety of features to safely store, organize, share and distribute their information online. The company’s objective is to enable members to have worldwide access to their information, while facilitating a seamless integration between the desktop and the Internet.

Campus Pipeline™ creates a campus that never closes — a virtual face-to-face connection between the institution and its constituents. Campus Pipeline's open enterprise architecture effectively links students, faculty, alumni, and administrators to the information they need when they need it, making their jobs, academic endeavors, and educational activities uniquely positive and powerful experiences.   At the most basic level, every company is established to provide a solution to a problem in the marketplace. Campus Pipeline is no exception, and the problems facing their market— the higher education community.  With these problems in mind, the Campus Pipeline solution was conceived in the spring of 1997 by their founders— Jeff Jones, William Borghetti, and Mitch Brinton. The company was officially incorporated in the summer of 1998 with a mission to revolutionize education by connecting the collegiate community.  Now, backed by a remarkable network of corporate relationships and a growing number of committed and talented team members, Campus Pipeline is well on its way to achieving its vision and solving some of higher education's most serious problems.

Mimeo is the innovator of online managed content distribution and printing. Their global footprint and cloud-based platform provide customers with the way to create, manage, and distribute content they rely on to do business.

Hewlett Packard Pathfinder provides expansion stage capital and exceptional support to the best enterprise technology start-ups focused on Cloud, Data Centers, Big Data and Security that have received previous funding from a leading early-stage venture capital firm and have completed the initial development phase of their product or service.    Hewlett Packard Pathfinder leverages HP’s leadership in these areas to help founders and executive teams build credibility with customers and supercharge routes to market.  As a strategic investor, we partner with financial investors who are experts in these technology areas and provide assistance that is complementary to them.

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