Cloud public pour les entreprises : avec un 3ème tour de table à 28 M$, Ravello Systems a levé au total 54 M$
[:fr]Fondée en 2011 par les « serials entrepreneurs » Rami Tamir et Benny Schnaider, la société Ravello Systems a finalisé un troisième tour de table en levant 28M$ auprès de Qualcomm Ventures, SanDisk Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners et Vintage Investment Partner. Le capital total levé par Ravello se monte donc 54M$. Ravello propose aux sociétés de simplifier leur accès au cloud en trouvant un équilibre entre cloud privé et public. Pour ce faire, elle a développé « le premier hyperviseur d’application dans le cloud ».
« La possibilité d’utiliser de façon transparente les principaux clouds publics est de plus en plus une nécessité vitale pour les entreprises, » explique Mony Hassid, directeur principal chez Qualcomm Ventures. « C’est d’une grande complexité pour l’entreprise de recréer des environnements applicatifs dans d’autres clouds, alors que l’approche de Ravello décompose ces obstacles techniques avec une rapidité et une simplicité incroyables. »
« Nous investissons dans des sociétés technologiques qui façonneront la prochaine décennie de l’informatique», a déclaré Shmil Levy, associé directeur, chez Sequoia Capital Israël. « Tout comme VMware redéfinit la façon dont les applications sont exécutées dans le centre de données grâce à la virtualisation, Ravello redéfinit l’utilisation de clouds publics pour les applications d’entreprise. »
« La solution unique de Ravello permet aux entreprises d’utiliser à une échelle infinie la capacité du cloud public pour apporter une vitesse impressionnante aux applications des centres de données», a déclaré René Hartner, vice-président corporate du développement chez SanDisk. «Notre investissement et notre collaboration avec Ravello complètent le leadership de SanDisk dans le stockage des centres de données et élargit notre engagement permanent pour conduire le développement et l’adoption de technologies innovantes de prochaine génération qui répondent aux problématiques les plus importantes des entreprises d’aujourd’hui et de demain. »
Voir aussi article en anglais sur israelscienceinfo.com[:en]Ravello Systems continues momentum of enabling enterprises to use AWS and Google Cloud as a true extension of their data center. Ravello Systems, Inc. has closed a third round of funding of $28 million bringing the total capital raised to date to $54 million. The funding round was led by Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture investment group, Qualcomm Ventures, and SanDisk Corporation through its venture arm, SanDisk Ventures. Existing and new investors – Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Vintage Investment Partners also participated in this funding round.
Founded in 2011 by the team that created the KVM hypervisor, Ravello is driving a fundamental shift in economics for enterprises by simplifying access to leading public clouds. Enterprises can now achieve the perfect balance of private and public cloud resources, by running their applications in any cloud, without any migration overhead. By using Ravello, enterprises have reduced time to provision application environments from months to minutes and eliminated capacity constraints forever.
Ravello Systems took its nested virtualization powered cloud service into a successful public beta in February 2013 and launched the product globally in August 2013. Since then Ravello’s technology has been adopted by a wide variety of enterprises ranging from the Fortune 500 to mid-size and smaller companies. Ravello enables enterprises to recreate their data center environments in the public cloud, with the ability to run VMware workloads, Android emulators and even entire OpenStack labs on AWS or Google Cloud. With this new round of funding, Ravello Systems will significantly expand its marketing and sales operations – both within the US as well as internationally.
“There is a clear need in the market to bridge the divide between VMware oriented virtualized data centers and public clouds like AWS and Google – and nested virtualization has clearly emerged as the right technology to achieve this,” said Rami Tamir, CEO and co-founder of Ravello Systems.
“The ability to use leading public clouds seamlessly is increasingly becoming a need for enterprises,” said Mony Hassid, senior director, Qualcomm Ventures. “There is huge complexity in re-creating enterprise application environments in other clouds, and Ravello’s approach breaks down those technical barriers with incredible speed and simplicity.”
“Ravello’s unique solution is empowering enterprises to use the infinite scale and capacity of the public cloud to bring impressive speed to data center applications,” said Rene Hartner, vice president of corporate business development at SanDisk. “Our investment and collaboration with Ravello complements SanDisk’s leadership in data center storage and broadens our on-going commitment to drive the development and adoption of innovative, next-generation technologies that address the most important considerations for the enterprise today and tomorrow.”
“We invest in technology companies that will shape the next decade of computing,” said Shmil Levy, managing partner, Sequoia Capital Israel. “Just like VMware redefined how applications are run in the data center through virtualization, we see Ravello redefining the use of public clouds for enterprise applications.”
About Ravello Systems
Ravello Systems is the industry’s leading nested virtualization software company. The company was founded by Rami Tamir and Benny Schnaider who previously founded Qumranet, the company that created the KVM hypervisor (acquired by Red Hat in 2008) and Pentacom (acquired by Cisco in 2000). Ravello enables enterprises to spin up complex application environments in any cloud on-demand.
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