Company name: Cloudistics
VC: Bain Capital Ventures’ Ben Nye
Relationship: VC is an investor.
Funding: $15.72 million
What it does: Cloudistics offers an operating system that manages data center infrastructure, servers, storage, and networking as one big block, making them all work together more efficiently.
Why it's hot: "CIOs should be able to run their datacenters more cost-effectively than public cloud providers, but they are hobbled by separate server, network, and storage silos. The Cloudistics team, with its extensive large-scale computing expertise, has enabled just this. The solution scales to thousands of nodes to give enterprises the same benefits of scale, speed of provisioning, and pay-as-you-go economics that AWS and Azure provide," Nye says.