Ananda Networks, which launched out of stealth mode Aug. 18, has a quite simple mission to perform: The new community software program supplier desires you to expertise “network bliss,” which is what the title of the corporate means in Sanskrit.
The San Francisco-based startup, which describes itself as “the first cloud-managed service that allows organizations to create their own private networks,” used the event to announce that it has secured $6 million in seed funding from MizMaa Ventures, Citrix Systems, Gefen Capital, Cyber Mentor Fund, GreatPoint Ventures, South Korean cybersecurity agency Jiran, J-Ventures, and particular person traders.
So it’s an enormous day for somewhat firm.
“The (internet) network we use every day was never designed for how we’re using it today,” CEO and co-founder Adi Ruppin informed eWEEK. “Security was not on anybody’s mind (when the network was first being built), and neither was scale or performance. We’re basically trying to use the same old network that was built 60 years ago to connect millions of LANs (local area networks)–it’s amazing that it even works!”
No extra Band-Aids on the community
“Basically, it’s essential put Band-Aids on the community with a view to do business–you want the firewalls, the VPNs, the SD-WANs, and so forth. As you consider it, you say: ‘Is this really how it’s presupposed to work?’
“What we are doing is recreating how the network works, rather than making another patch. We enable our customers to create their own private network on top of the internet. They can connect their distributed workforce, cloud services, LANs, mobile devices–everything–no matter where they are, and it looks and feels like they are in a LAN.”
At its core, Ananda is a cloud-based service with a Slack-like interface that finds the perfect web connections for any sort of enterprise use case, reveals customers learn how to make the connections, then remembers them for future use. It additionally secures transactions from begin to end and all of the mode connections in between. Automation is a key descriptor right here.
Ruppin, a serial entrepreneur who focuses on safety, and his co-founding companion, Elad Rave, a networking knowledgeable, comprise the core staff that runs Ananda. Together they’ve began greater than a half-dozen firms individually or between them.
What Ananda brings to the desk
Key options of the Ananda Networks service are:
- Faster velocity: Ananda’s self-optimizing community makes use of machine studying to attach any two nodes on the community optimally with out backhauling visitors or forcing it by proxies, and it leverages superior communication protocols to supply unmatched efficiency.
- End-to-end safety: Ananda permits organizations to create their very own absolutely non-public networks which are encrypted end-to-end, with out entrusting their communication to a 3rd celebration, and supplies native zero-trust networking and micro-segmentation.
- Simplicity: The Ananda service is absolutely cloud-managed, as simple to arrange and use as a Slack channel…
