Bracket Computing bridges local servers, cloud capacity
November 6, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Heather Clancy.
Stealthy startup Bracket Computing made its debut last month with more than $85 million in backing for its radical virtualization technology, which allows businesses to move computing workloads from cloud to cloud more easily. The vision is to help organizations process applications wherever it makes the most sense from a cost or resource perspectives.
The approach could also be used to bridge operations between on-site servers and those hosted in a cloud service. "When you have a million servers at your disposal, you have the appearance of an infinite resource," said Bracket CEO Tom Gillis. "Our question to ourselves was: can we build a layer that could present applications with highly reliable and secure performance?"…
Gillis was part of the founding team at security firm Ironport Systems (acquired for $830 million by Cisco Systems in 2007). Founded in 2011, Bracket’s backers include strategic corporate investors GE and Qualcomm, as well as venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Norwest Venture Partners, Sutter Hill Ventures, ARTIS Ventures and Allegis Capital….
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