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Seasoned entrepreneurs Todd Brennan, Allen Hillery, John Hanratty’s Journey to set up Bit9 aka Carbon Black

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A cybersecurity firm set up by trio Todd Brennan, John Hanratty, and Allen Hillery is famous on the international level. It is working in the field of endpoint security to protect the client’s information from security threats. Data security is the main priority in the present world. Cybercrimes are increasing day by day. Any kind of hacking or any malicious attack results in a huge loss for any business. Therefore almost all organizations demand total network and data security. For that, dozens of firms are depending upon Carbon Black. In fact, more than 5000 clients trust Carbon black and secure their business. To detect cyberpunk as well as to prevent future attacks, Carbon black offers it’s best to all kinds of organizations.

The backstory of foundation

Bit9 is the output of the productive idea of three serial entrepreneurs Todd, Allen, and John. They transformed computer network technology and IT security with Carbon Black. It is set up in 2002 as Bit9. During the initial days, the company has to face malicious attacks. Apparently, it then becomes the inspiration to save other firms from such types of attacks. The service is getting more advanced after acquiring the unique start-up Carbon Black in 2014. After that, Bit9 renamed as Carbon Black.

About Carbon Black

It is a Waltham(Massachusetts) based cybersecurity firm that creates cloud-native endpoint security software. This software is especially known for detecting malicious behavior. As well, to revert such attacks and saves important data from getting hacked. Carbon black’s PSC platform is best to analyze unfiltered data of clients for threats. As a matter of fact, PSC stands for Predictive Security Cloud. Currently, 5600+ customers trust Carbon Black. Recently, the firm merged into VMware to flourish its service.

The journey of Carbon Black

Since 2002, the firm has been improving its service and adding the clients to its list. In fact, most of the customers of Carbon Black belongs to Fortune industries. It gets started with the name Bit9. However, the firm acquired a security service firm carbon black and became Carbon Black. The combination of Bit9 and Carbon Black.

That time, it also raised E series funding and continue its exploring strategy. Moreover, it gained Objective Logistics in 2015. Similarly many more small to medium startups in the IT security field are acquired by Carbon Black. Including Visitrend, SecureWorks,  Trustwave, Ernst & Young, Kroll, and Rapid7, etc.

Thereafter, it raised to 152 dollars during its initial public offering. Today, it has top investors like Kleiner, Perkins Accomplice, etc. However, Carbon Black decided to get merged into VMware in 2019.

Glimpse to founders life

All founders of Carbon Black are series entrepreneurs who build several milestones in there early days. The trio of Todd, Allen, and John has built several firms together, including Carbon Black and Ampient. However, most of the firms set up are related to cybersecurity, network, and data security.

Allen Hillery

He has specialization in research and development, and he has been working in this field for a long time. Coming to his education, he holds the doctorate at the University of Wisconsin in Electrical and computer engineering. As well, bachelor’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university.

Apart from that, he is an expert in information security, scalability testing, large-scale computing, etc. Allen is the co-founder of Bit9 and Ampient. At Bit9, he served as VP and shares a great contribution to build a strong base of it.

Moreover, he also helped in founding the Okena endpoint security company.

Other works of Allen

Rather than setting up the businesses, he wrote a number of patent applications. As said earlier, Allen works in the field of Research. Yet, he continues to redefine parallel computing and IT security with his research.

He also worked to design some of the largest supercomputer clusters in his early career. That time, he was a researcher at Shell E&P research Center.

Todd Brennan

He also helped in building the base of Carbon Black in 2002. Having the spirit and tremendous knowledge of technology, Todd set up several startups and runs it successfully. Presently, he is serving as CEO of Ampient, which he helped to found too. In fact, he also set up Okena with Allen. At bit9, he served as chief technology officer and VP engineering. In 2003, he built novel technology to defend against emerging IT security threats. Todd also active in the research field, also he served at MIT Lincon Lab as a researcher.

Education

Brennan has a Master’s degree in Electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin. From the same university, he earned a Ph.D. However, he attended Cornell University to graduate in electrical engineering.

Awards and recognition of Todd

InfoWorld honored him and include his name in the list of Top 25 CTO in 2006. As well, he is an awardee of several collegiate teaching awards. Also, he is an author of dozens of patents and research papers.

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VMWARE, SUCCESS STORY OF A 21 YEARS OLD SOFTWARE COMPANY

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Once the internet made a spark in the tech world, the IT industry started brimming with profits. It is since the mid-1990s that so many new companies have been established in the tech market and almost all of them have become business tycoons today.

Even the telecommunication industry who sold hardware products, today with the help of AI and ML are creating advanced technologies and software. Terminologies such as cloud computing, fog computing, artificial intelligence and many more have become very common these days. In this tech-driven world, it has shown the highest potential of development which leads to the positive growth curve for establishing a career in this field. VMware is one such company that mainly focuses on cloud computing, developing advanced software and services accordingly. The company was founded in Palo Alto, California by five tech enthusiasts namely Diane Green, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum and Edward Wang. Diane Green was made the CEO of the company and by the end of the year, the company had only 20 employees.

The Founders

Diane Green after receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering went to pursue her Master’s in Naval Architecture. She is an MIT graduate who received her second Master’s degree in Computer Science. Before founding VMware, Green worked in several companies like Tandem Computers, Silicon Graphics etc. Green was also a member of Google board of directors and she founded her start-up called Bebop which was acquired in 2015.

Edouard Bugnion is also an engineer who received his Bachelor’s from ETH Zurich followed by his Master’s degree from Stanford University. After co-founding VMware, he is also the founder of Nuova Systems, a company that was later acquired by Cisco. Bugnion is also an angel investor.
Scott Devine completed his B.S. from Cornell University followed by post-graduating from Stanford University. His main paradigm is operating systems and computer architecture and currently serves as Principal Engineer in VMware.

After completing his Bachelor’s from the University of Virginia, Mendel Rosenblum pursued his PhD from the University of California. Apart from co-founding VMware, Rosenblum is also a professor at the University of Stanford and resigned from VMware in 2008 after his wife, Diane Green was fired.

Edward Wang went to the University of California and holds two Bachelor’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Science Engineering. He then completed both his M.S. and PhD in Computer Science. Currently, he serves in VMware as Principal Engineer and he is also the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from Usenix.

Founding Story

Though the company was founded in 1998, VMware launched itself officially at the DEMO Conference in February 1999. The company presented its first product, Workstation 1.0 in this conference which allowed the user to use more than one O.S from a single PC.

Shortly after the presentation of the product, the company received around $1 million in bookings for Workstation 1.0. In the year 2001, the company launched VMware GSX Serves and VMware ESX Server and made an entry into the server market. In 2003, the company went outside America for the first time with establishing its significant presence in Europe. The next year came up with the big news of the company’s acquisition by EMC Corporation (present-day DELL) for $635 million.

A new beginning

One year after the acquisition, the company opened offices in India and China as well. In this year the company reached 1,000 employees. In 2007, the company finally received its first IPO with $29 per share and the day ended with $51 per share. The company’s annual revenue turned to $1.9 billion at the end of 2008. In the same year, Diane Green was replaced by Paul Maritz as the new CEO of the company.

In 2009, the company received the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award in the category of software. By 2011, the company established R&D offices in China, India, Israel, United States and Bulgaria. This year the company’s total employees turned out to be 11,000 throughout the world.
The company’s success followed by acquiring Nicira in 2012 for $1.26 billion followed by making the largest acquisition of VMware in 2014, that is, AirWatch for $1.54 billion.

Present Day

In 2017, the company was listed third in America as one of the highest paying companies. The company’s latest acquisition was Carbon Black in October 2019 for $2.1 million. Currently, the company has 24,000 employees with Pat Gelsinger as the CEO. The products of the company include server software, cloud management software, networking products etc.

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Google Cloud to Add Support for VMware Workloads to Attract More Enterprise Customers

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Google has just announced that it has joined its hands with the software company, VMware, to expand its cloud services. This way, Google will be able to court the enterprise users of VMware who will be able to run their workloads over Google Cloud.

Through the partnership, the two companies are planning to start a new hybrid cloud service called Google Cloud VMware Solution (developed by CloudSimple). The service will let the VMware enterprise customers use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to run their vSphere-based workloads. The partnership will make Google provide its support for the VMware Cloud Foundation. The VMware Cloud Foundation is mainly responsible for deploying and running hybrid clouds.

VMware has got a long list of enterprise customers, and it would be great for Google if it bags them for its hybrid cloud service. Though Google is a long-time rival for VMware and many of the enterprises won’t be moving to GCP, there are many who themselves had requested Google to provide support for VMware cloud over its cloud service. Migrating the VMware workloads to a VMware software-defined data centre (SDCC) running in GCP, will render the organisations to have full, native access to the complete VMware services, i.e. vCenter, vSAN and NSX-T.

Google Cloud and VMware

“Customers have asked us to provide broad support for VMware, and now with Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple, our customers will be able to run VMware vSphere-based workloads in GCP. This brings customers a wide breadth of choices for how to run their VMware workloads in a hybrid deployment, from modern containerized applications with Anthos to VM-based applications with VMware in GCP.” said Google in the announcement.

Google is moving forward towards internet-based computing and storage, and it is estimated that the company may raise its cloud business to $8 billion this year. The partnership is also going to add up some more to the annual revenue of the company. Where its rival companies like Alphabet Inc. has already been in such deals, Google has just started on this way.

“Our partnership with Google Cloud has always been about addressing customers’ needs, and we’re excited to extend the partnership to enable our mutual customers to run VMware workloads on VMware Cloud Foundation in Google Cloud Platform. With VMware on GCP, customers will be able to leverage all of the familiarity and investment protection of VMware tools and training as they execute on their cloud strategies, and rapidly bring new services to market and operate them seamlessly and more securely across a hybrid cloud environment.” VMware’s Sanjay Poonen said in a statement.

VMware is not new to such partnerships and has recently partnered with Microsoft and formed the Azure VMware Solutions, which is again developed by CloudSimple. In 2016, the company had also joined its hands with Amazon in order to integrate the cloud services from both the companies altogether.

Dell Wants to Bring Automated and Efficient Cloud Infrastructure

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Dell, one of the biggest computer maker company, which started its journey 35 years ago by selling PCs directly to the consumer is now planning to expand its cloud infrastructure to make it more intelligent, automated and efficient.

At the Dell Technologies World 2019 held in Las Vegas, Michael Dell the founder, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, revealed about the new Dell Technologies Cloud offering, that will be a combined project of Dell, Azure, Microsoft and VMWare. All those companies have partnered with each other to accelerate the digital transformation for their customers and bring a hybrid cloud solution to them. All the three will be combining their data centres, workplace solutions and cloud technologies to attain the very objective.

“Every business, every organisation, every government, and every healthcare organisation needs to re-imagine itself in this digital age. There are an explosion and tsunami of data that is sweeping us into the digital age. Data is our greatest asset and most important resource. Turning that data into action and progress and outcomes and success is the heart of digital transformation,” said Dell.

According to the company, other companies own their separate clouds, and it becomes tough for them to set up a multi-cloud strategy. So to simplify such complex tasks Dell is planning to bring a hybrid cloud solution, that will also render easy to handle interface. Dell’s cloud approach revolves around VMWare and targets to connect with public cloud service providers like AWS.

“For many organisations, the increasingly diverse cloud landscape is resulting in an enormous amount of IT complexity, and no one is more qualified or capable to help customers solve this challenge than Dell Technologies,” said Jeff Clarke, the vice chairman of products and operations at Dell.