Versa Networks What they do: provide a suite of suite of Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) for building SD-WANs. Problem they solve: Currently, it is expensive and takes forever to deploy traditional WAN solutions, such as MPLS. The traditional WAN model was also designed for a different era, one that didn’t have to contend with the…
ParkMyCloud What they do: Automate cloud server scheduling. Problem they solve: According to ParkMyCloud, “companies spend billions of dollars a year on 24×7 servers” in public clouds, even though many of those resources sit idle much of the time. ParkMyCloud contends that, on average, 66% of what you spend on the public cloud is on…
Week 7 returns to the technology that pundits have called “over-hyped,” “nothing new,” “an old technology in a new wrapper,” and so forth. Critics may dismiss cloud computing as little more than a new spin on an old tech, and recent outages such as the Google Docs blackout just last week don’t help, but we…
Happiest Minds What they do: Provide “Digital Transformation” services for enterprises and technology providers. Problem they solve: Trying to manage the onslaught of new technologies makes even the most tech-savvy person’s head spin. For many enterprises, they lack the expertise to successfully adopt new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet of Things…
Cavirin What they do: Develop automated cybersecurity tools. Problem they solve: Organizations migrating to the cloud have a difficult time maintaining continual security across their hybrid deployments. Existing approaches are time-intensive and prone to error, optimized for either on-premises or the cloud, but not both. To keep up with modern threats, cybersecurity tools must keep…
Week 6 is going to be a short one for the Big50-2017. We’re featuring only 2 startups, one cloud security automation startup today and an outsourcing startup tomorrow, and then the Big50 and the Startup50 team will be off for the rest of Thanksgiving week, returning with Cloud Week on Monday 11/27. Our first startup’s…
Seal Software What they do: Automate how organizations find contracts and extract terms, provisions, and clauses. Problem they solve: Organizations have no easy way to find their contracts across various repositories and files shares. It’s even more difficult to extract the critical data that is buried beneath impenetrable legalese. Lacking automation, the traditional method of…
Theatro What they do: Theatro provides an “intelligent personal assistant and voice-controlled mobile app platform” for employees in brick-and-mortar retail, manufacturing, and hospitality. Problem they solve: Enterprises with large staffs of hourly employees have yet to realize the massive productivity gains from smart mobile devices that enterprises with large staffs of knowledge workers are achieving….
BigPanda What they do: The BigPanda platform consolidates and correlates IT alerts from multiple monitoring tools into a single unified view that displays how various incidents relate. Problem they solve: As application and infrastructure environments have evolved over time, IT incident response workflows and associated tools have not. As a result, IT Operations teams cannot keep…
Velocidi What they do: Provide a cloud-based marketing analytics platform. Problem they solve: As marketing departments embrace data analysis, data from a variety of tools and platforms are overwhelming even the most data-driven teams. The data that marketers need to make decisions comes from many internal and external sources and is difficult to piece together….