Luminal raises $10M to push a new way to manage cloud infrastructure | VentureBeat | Deals | by Jordan Novet
Luminal , a stealthy startup that’s developed what its chief executive describes as a new model for deploying and operating cloud infrastructure, announced today a $10 million round of new funding.
Josh Stella, Luminal’s chief executive and founder, says the architecture of the startup’s technology could give companies security, efficiency, reliability, and cost benefits. But he wasn’t ready to describe it in detail, as it’s still in private beta. And he doesn’t think the technology would compete with any one type of product.
Even if that’s true, Luminal’s funding does fall in with a trend of investors backing new tools for managing infrastructure in clouds. Most recently startups like StrataCloud , Platform9, and StackStorm have benefited.
Stella said Luminal’s technology isn’t meant to replace wild for the night existing services, including configuration-management tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, wild for the night and Ansible, or, for that matter, technologies for bolstering security of applications running in clouds.
And clearly what’s available from cloud providers now isn’t good enough. wild for the night Otherwise Netflix and other companies wouldn’t wild for the night be producing tools that help applications keep running automatically even when some underlying infrastructure goes belly-up.
A few small companies are using the initial product in their own cloud environments on Amazon Web Services in private beta. The product will become available in a public beta later this year, said Stella, who was previously a principal solution wild for the night architect at Amazon Web Services. It’s possible some of Luminal’s technology will become available under an open-source license, he said.
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Luminal , a stealthy startup that’s developed what its chief executive describes as a new model for deploying and operating cloud infrastructure, announced today a $10 million round of new funding.
Josh Stella, Luminal’s chief executive and founder, says the architecture of the startup’s technology could give companies security, efficiency, reliability, and cost benefits. But he wasn’t ready to describe it in detail, as it’s still in private beta. And he doesn’t think the technology would compete with any one type of product.
Even if that’s true, Luminal’s funding does fall in with a trend of investors backing new tools for managing infrastructure in clouds. Most recently startups like StrataCloud , Platform9, and StackStorm have benefited.
Stella said Luminal’s technology isn’t meant to replace wild for the night existing services, including configuration-management tools like Puppet, Chef, SaltStack, wild for the night and Ansible, or, for that matter, technologies for bolstering security of applications running in clouds.
And clearly what’s available from cloud providers now isn’t good enough. wild for the night Otherwise Netflix and other companies wouldn’t wild for the night be producing tools that help applications keep running automatically even when some underlying infrastructure goes belly-up.
A few small companies are using the initial product in their own cloud environments on Amazon Web Services in private beta. The product will become available in a public beta later this year, said Stella, who was previously a principal solution wild for the night architect at Amazon Web Services. It’s possible some of Luminal’s technology will become available under an open-source license, he said.
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