Big 50-2016 Round 2: Group 4 Vote

Round 2 of the Big 50-2016 startup competition moves forward with Group 4: We’re all in the cloud now.

The cloud group has a wide range of cloud-powered startups, from IT alert correlation and automation to Software Defined WAN services to application delivery to development and testing platforms. It’s a broad, diverse mix, but the common thread is the cloud.

Group 4 voting is open through Wednesday, March 30 at noon PT.

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Of the 27 startups listed below:

  • The top 14 will move on to Round 3
  • The bottom 13 will be eliminated

Notes for voters:

  • You can vote for up to 3 startups
  • Your votes will be weighted from #1 (which will get 3 points) to #3 (which will get 1 point)
  • Only humans are eligible to vote!!! Any startups deploying voting bots or otherwise subverting the one-vote/device structure of this competition will be penalized. All fraudulent votes will be tossed out, and this startup will face additional penalties, depending on the severity of the cheating.

The Group 4 Lineup

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(Scroll down for descriptions of each startup.)

 

 

Acceleration Systems

Cloud-based subscription model service for bandwidth optimization

Anova Data

Provides an analytics platform that helps network operators “unleash the full value of subscriber and network data insight”

AppNeta

Provides an Application Performance Management (APM) platform for monitoring apps

Appsforce

Desktop and mobile website testing, and development

Apptimize

Software for editing and testing apps

BigPanda

Provides a platform to centralize IT alerts 

CloudPhysics

Provides an operational analytics platform that helps data center teams diagnose, troubleshoot, and optimize VMware vSphere infrastructures

CloudVelox

A hybrid cloud environment for disaster recovery, live migration, and on-demand testing 

Docker

An open platform for distributed applications for developers and system administrators

Genymobile

Developing enterprise Android tools for businesses

HashiCorp

Application development, collaboration, and delivery solutions 

NoviFlow

Software Defined Networking (SDN)

NS1

Managed DNS & app delivery services

OpenLegacy

A Do It Yourself solution platform that enables enterprises to extend to mobile, web and cloud applications

ParkMyCloud

A self-service web app that schedules on and off times for idle AWS instances

Platform9

An OpenStack-based, self-service private cloud 

Rancher Labs

A software platform for deploying a private container service

Ravello Systems

Self-contained capsules to run VMware/KVM development, test, training and demo environments in the cloud without migration 

Rocana

Monitoring software that eliminates scalability and performance limits for analyzing logs across entire infrastructures, making it easier for IT staff to find, prevent, and solve problems 

Saisei

An analytics and security solution that doubles the usable bandwidth in deployed networks 

Vapor IO

Data center solution software and hardware 

Versa Networks

Software that enables service providers and large enterprises to build WAN and branch networks based on a broad set of virtualized network functions (VNFs)

Viptela

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)  

Weaveworks

Monitors and controls Docker containers with zero configuration

Webscale

Application delivery and management 

ZeroStack

Self-service private cloud building and management software