Gigaom | Pica8 takes in $12.5M to popularize its operating system for software defined networking
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The startup plans to use those funds to expand its staff from 12 employees in Palo Alto to 32 within the next few months and further keep its technology compatible with other SDN gear and applications, said Pica8 CEO and co-founder James Liao. With an OS that’s tailored for these kinds of chips, users will be able to better customize the software that works in tandem with the hardware without having to do extensive modifications, said Liao. You can think of it as similar to how [company]CoreOS[/company] has a custom OS for servers to make it easier for IT staff to maintain their machines without having to deal with some of the administrative legwork involved with using traditional Linux operating systems. A good portion of Pica8’s funding round will be spent on making sure that its OS will be compatible with new SDN applications as they hit the marketplace. “Each application will need features we may not [currently] have.” Liao admits that the SDN market is currently small and in its nascent stage of development, but he said he expects the networking architecture concept to gain traction in the coming years.
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