PLUMgrid offers the PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite, a distributed software solution built on the PLUMgrid Platform and IO Visor technology that delivers virtual network services at cloud scale. The suite includes Virtual Domains for tenant isolation and policy enforcement and an Encrypted Virtual Domain for end-to-end data plane encryption. PLUMgrid advertises terabits of scale-out performance, including 40Gbs throughput per server via hardware offload, and integration/certification with Red Hat OpenStack 4.0. The product includes built-in monitoring, analytics, troubleshooting, and high-availability features to enable maintenance with no downtime. PLUMgrid has achieved general availability and deployments with customers such as Swisscom and positions the solution to speed OpenStack cloud deployments. The company completed a Series B financing intended to fund global sales and marketing expansion and further product innovation for new markets. PLUMgrid is developing an operating system for networking that aims to treat the network as a platform, analogous to how the x86 processor underpins compute. Its SDN is designed to be delivered as software over standard silicon such as x86, enabling virtualization principles to the network layer. The product goal is to let anyone create networking boxes without relying on proprietary hardware vendors. The company positions itself to sit at the center of a convergence between compute, virtualization and networking. PLUMgrid raised $10.7 million in Series A funding from Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners to pursue this vision. The article frames the market opportunity as large—up to a $40 billion market—if the company can realize its platform ambitions.

Total raised

$27M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Jun 2014