Amazon
- AWS now has 1M active accounts
- Recorded $214M in earnings, exceeding expectations
- Google and VMWare form partnership, to counter AWS dominance in the cloud sector
- Invested $1.3B into Prime Instant Video
Palo Alto Networks
- Market valuation surpassed $10B, making it one of the hottest security stocks in the world
- PAN is twice the size of FireEye and same size as Akamai
- The #3 player in security appliances with 7.6% market share, according to IDC
- Cyber Security CDNs, take heed, if there is any security company to mimic in terms of security functionality, it’s PAN
PeerApp
- PeerApp made a brilliant decision to branch out into the education sector, where it is gaining traction, winning market share, and best of all, uncovered another large addressable market
- CIO Review Magazine names PeerApp one of the Top 20 Most Promising tech companies to the educational sector
Yottaa
- Vick Viren Vaishnavi joins company as CEO
- Updated its WAF & DSA feature set
- Company now Level 1 PCI Compliant
- 138% revenue increase in 2014
- Average sales price increased 100% year over year
- New bookings increased 90%
- Employee headcount will double in 2015
- New HQ is moving to Waltham, MA
Ghost Vulnerability
- Vulnerability named Ghost is impacting the majority of Linux distributions. Red Hat, Debian and Ubunto issued fixes
- Ghost exposes a flaw in the GNU C Library that can trigger local and remote functions, via buffer overflow