| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.12.2022 | - |
It is hard to believe that it has been ten years since The Fabric was born. It has been an exciting and productive decade of innovation, entrepreneurship, and investment. A dozen trend-setting technology companies have emerged out of thes... |
| 08.07.2021 | - | The Fabric co-created company, IoTium, got acquired by View, Inc (Nasdaq: VIEW), the leader in smart building platforms and smart windows today.
With this acquisition, IoTium will increase the security and remote management capabilities of... |
| 31.03.2021 | - | We are proud that Mesh7 got acquired by VMware.
Learn more about the acquisition:
Mesh7 blog
VMware’s post |
| 18.03.2021 | Mesh7, The Fabric co-creation to be acquired by VMware | We are excited to announce that The Fabric’s co-creation, Mesh7, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by VMware.
When early 2018, Prabakar, Klaus Oestermann (former Senior VP at Citrix), and I tried to identify the white space, we ... |
| 24.02.2021 | - |
Source: Kyle Wiggers, VentureBeat
Cloud observability startup OpsCruise today emerged from stealth and announced it has landed a $5 million round of funding. The company says the funds will bolster its go-to-market and hiring efforts as ... |
| 22.12.2020 | - | In The Fabric Spotlight episodes, Rajan and Prabakar discuss trends in cloud, hybrid cloud, cloud security, 5G, edge computing, and beyond with their guests.
Read what advice enterprise CXOs, cloud infrastructure investors, executives from... |
| 20.11.2020 | - | In The Fabric Spotlight episodes, Rajan and Prabakar talk with cloud thinkers and builders about the enterprise, cloud, infrastructures, and entrepreneurial themes. Their guests have either been entrepreneurs or have worked closely with the... |
| 22.10.2020 | - | Alan Boehme, who recently joined H&M Group as CTO and had the same roles at P&G, Coca Cola, has valuable input on why large corporations need to work with startups. Alan’s advice for entrepreneurs is to form the right team, have the... |
| 13.10.2020 | - | Rajan and Prabakar host The Fabric Spotlight talks and speak with different people on everything cloud/infrastructure/enterprise. Guest speakers are:
At the end of every talk, we ask a guest what learnings and advice they would give to ent... |
| 16.09.2020 | - | In this discussion for The Fabric Spotlight, Prabakar Sundarrajan, Chief Strategist at The Fabric talked with B.V. Jagadeesh.
Jagadeesh is Managing Partner of KAAJ Ventures and is known by sharing his time between social impact projects, i... |
| 19.08.2020 | - | As a co-creator of brand new start-up companies, we at The Fabric interact with many different categories of people. We work with enterprise CXOs, executives from large infrastructure companies, entrepreneurs, and investors. Each group play... |
| 19.08.2020 | Advice for Entrepreneurs from Enterprise CXOs, Infrastructure Executives on how to work with them | Like any fund, we at The Fabric also interact with many people. We work with entrepreneurs, investors, enterprise CXOs, and executives from large infrastructure companies. Each of them plays an essential role in our co-creation business mod... |
| 01.07.2020 | - | Containerization, orchestration and open standards for metrics, logs, traces, and flows have ushered in a new era of open source monitoring tools that will become the foundation for instrumentation in the enterprise.
Open source monitoring... |
| 26.06.2020 | - | In The Fabric Spotlight episode, Rajan Raghavan, CEO of The Fabric, talked with Amit Zavery, GM of Business Application Platforms for Google Cloud. They discussed the Google Cloud infrastructure strategy, how they evolved from the data plat... |
| 22.06.2020 | - | I am excited to welcome Prakash Mana as the CEO of Cloudbrink, a software-defined mobility company, the latest co-creation by The Fabric.
Cloudbrink is an exciting edge-cloud services company, still in stealth mode. The appointment of Prak... |
| 15.06.2020 | - | We are excited to announce the acquisition of Spanugo by IBM, marking the acquisition of the fourth of the twelve companies that The Fabric has co-created with entrepreneurs since the inception in 2012.
When Prabakar Sundarrajan and I disc... |
| 11.06.2020 | - | Applications are increasingly being architected to run on public cloud environments, with multiple application components (and micro-components) interacting with each other using APIs. These applications also leverage an increasingly large ... |
| 20.05.2020 | - | In this episode of The Fabric Spotlight, a series of talks on everything cloud/IoT infrastructure, Rajan Raghavan, CEO at The Fabric and Bask Iyer, Chief Information and Digital Transformation Officer at VMware discuss:
The Fabric Spot... |
| 06.05.2020 | - | Today, we are excited to announce that OpsCruise is emerging from stealth to make its public presence known.
For more than a year, we’ve been busy behind the scenes with our early customers and partners innovating a product to make the liv... |
| 01.05.2020 | - | The COVID-19 pandemic has tremendously accelerated existing trends.
For the past few years, we have been observing the rapid growth of a mobile distributed workforce. Employers need to enable productivity and collaboration for their employ... |
| 16.04.2020 | - |
We are grateful that our friends from March Capital Partners are having Zoom conversations with some remarkable people in these difficult times, Dr. Deepak Chopra and John Chambers.
Dr. Deepak Chopra shares how our safety, health, and we... |
| 18.02.2020 | - |
The Blockchain universe is expanding – surely and steadily. There’s clear and unprecedented value to be derived with this groundbreaking technology as it addresses hitherto unsolved business problems esp. in the areas of enterprise trust,... |
| 16.01.2020 | - | Attacking data in motion at Layer 7+ has become the path of least resistance for hackers and requires a radically new approach to protecting native cloud applications. I’m excited to join Mesh7 and to be working with the extremely talented ... |
| 03.01.2020 | - |
Healthcare will continue to be one of the top verticals at risk due to the value of sensitive data. Security hygiene is like your immune system: bad habits can lead to the breakdown of your immune system and greater susceptibility to viru... |
| 08.11.2019 | - |
As every year, we are incredibly excited to host The Fabric Annual Summit and meet again with our peers, investors, advisors, our co-created companies, and technology leaders in the cloud/IoT infrastructure space.
This year’s theme was R... |
| 25.10.2019 | - |
The Fabric recently hosted the CXO Council meeting. The Council consists of CXOs of industry leading companies to discuss and gain private access to the latest breakthrough innovations in next-generation enterprise cloud infrastructure te... |
| 15.10.2019 | - |
I am very excited to welcome Gary Messiana, newly appointed CEO of The Fabric co-creation Mesh7 (previously Kavach), a cloud-native application security mesh company funded by Juniper, Splunk, and March Capital Partners.
Gary brings an e... |
| 14.10.2019 | - | In the previous parts of this article series, I had mentioned that we are the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges.
... |
| 02.10.2019 | - | According to Risk based security research, 2019 is on track to being the “worst year on record” for breach activity.
Despite a whole host of security tools and control systems, breaches continue to occur, they are more frequent and the bla... |
| 01.10.2019 | - | In the first post of this series, I mentioned that we are at the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. In this artic... |
| 19.09.2019 | - | We are thrilled about the announcement from Splunk. In the press release, Splunk announces their venture arm, namely Splunk Ventures, a $100 million Innovation Fund and a $50 million Social Impact Fund, to invest in promising and innovative... |
| 17.09.2019 | - | Picture this. A hacker uses a VPN to breach into a cloud server (virtual machine hosted within a tier-1 public cloud provider) of a large financial enterprise, through a misconfigured firewall, then executes a small set of commands (injecti... |
| 10.09.2019 | - | In the first post of this series, I mentioned that we are at the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. In this artic... |
| 07.08.2019 | - | In the previous post, I mentioned that we are the advent of a new era of glorious distributed computing of many kinds, and therefore, infrastructure has to be reimagined to meet the evolving needs and challenges. In this article, we will ex... |
| 27.07.2019 | - |
Rajan Raghavan, co-founder and CEO of The Fabric, spoke at TiEcon 2019. TiEcon is the largest technology anchored conference dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. It has attracted over 60,000 entrepreneurs and professionals from over 5... |
| 28.06.2019 | - | “The experimentation phase is over. We will be seeing companies build up blockchain ecosystems to connect with a network of their suppliers, with the intent of solving broad business problems related to flexibility and efficiency,” said Aru... |
| 24.06.2019 | - | I am excited to welcome Scott Fulton, as CEO of OpsCruise, the autonomous performance assurance company co-created by The Fabric.
Scott joins OpsCruise bringing a deep background in IT Ops and IT Service Management and a wealth of sales, b... |
| 18.06.2019 | - | Computing has historically had alternating eras of centralization, distribution, and re-centralization. Now we seem to be at the dawn of a new distributed era of computing. What is involved, and how must infrastructure be reimagined to meet... |
| 17.06.2019 | - |
I am excited to welcome Peter Jensen, newly appointed CEO of The Fabric co-created company Spanugo, an automated security assurance platform.
For over 20 years, Peter has been instrumental in the growth and acquisition of several startup... |
| 23.05.2019 | - |
The Fabric multi-phase model of co-creating companies with entrepreneurs consists of five phases. In the last blog, we talked about phase 1 “Idea Validation”, how we ideate, the importance of a solid entrepreneurial team, having a great a... |
| 06.05.2019 | - | Kmesh, The Fabric co-created company, supports the transition from centralized data lakes to distributed data ponds and provides software that distributes your data, across onprem, clouds, countries, and edges, as a single global namespace.... |
| 18.04.2019 | - | In an earlier post, we examined how microservices application as complex distributed systems have created more complex and less predictable performance profiles. Here we examine the state of monitoring systems and their effectiveness and li... |
| 16.04.2019 | - | Nebraska-based start-up Quantified AG explains the potential and the challenges of bringing IoT, machine learning and cloud-based tools to the livestock industry.
The livestock industry has a lot to gain with modern technology — IoT device... |
| 02.04.2019 | - | During the course of evolution , some events act as turning points and make such a major impact that they are seen as defining moments as well as the start of a new era in their respective spaces. We are at such a juncture in the applicatio... |
| 05.02.2019 | - | Excited to see that out of 26,792 IoT startups, The Fabric’s co-created company, IoTium has been listed in the top 25 IoT startups to watch in 2019 by Forbes.
“This is a fascinating company to track due to their patented technology that en... |
| 04.02.2019 | - | In this episode, Jeff Kim, CEO of Kmesh, discusses how to succeed with distributed data to enable Kubernetes at the edge with Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and co-founder of RackN.
This informative podcast discusses the challenges facing Kubernetes ... |
| 29.01.2019 | - | Sumant Mandal, The Fabric’s co-founder and managing director of March Capital Partners on raised $300 million fund:
“We have two major areas and a couple of minor areas,” said Sumant Mandal, a managing director with the firm. “We like data... |
| 16.01.2019 | - | This post is the final part of a two-part series on analyzing recently found CVE-2018-1002105. In the last post, I covered the overview of Kubernetes (K8s) vulnerability (CVE-2018-1002105). Using an example API request flow, I explained how... |
| 15.01.2019 | - | True Potential of Cloud-Delivered Infrastructure
“With the widespread enterprise adoption of containers, micro-services, hybrid/multi-cloud deployments, and the presently emerging mobile/edge cloud, new challenges have risen in the infrast... |
| 15.01.2019 | - | One of the most asked about questions from Prabakar Sundarrajan and me is how we come up with new ideas. It is one of the most challenging questions to answer. My most honest answer though is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
DEFINITION... |
| 08.01.2019 | - | Kubernetes (K8s) has rapidly become the one of the most widely adopted container orchestration platform. With its powerful combination of simple to understand constructs, providing rich capabilities, and functionalities to meet the varied n... |
| 08.01.2019 | Kmesh.io Announces General Availability of The Kmesh SaaS Data Orchestration Platform for Multi-Cloud Environments [PRESS RELEASE] | - |
| 07.01.2019 | - | Cloud providers looking to enable the growing number of use cases for cloud-based HPC recognize the importance of standardizing on the right HPC filesystem. So, while a number of vendors claim to provide a filesystem ideal for HPC in the cl... |
| 04.01.2019 | - | Deployed by leading companies such as Netflix, Expedia, Paypal, and eBay, microservices are fast becoming a popular architecture pattern. The movement towards microservices is driven primarily by the need for agility and scale in modern bus... |
| 02.01.2019 | - | As the new year emerges, The Fabric is embarking on its 7th year of existence. I am truly excited by the prospects and scale of what is possible.
This December we have been traveling through Egypt as a family. What I have been impressed wi... |
| 27.11.2018 | - | As applications have evolved from legacy & monolithic to modern & microservices-based, they have become increasingly disaggregated into smaller & more number of components that run on a variety of workloads (VMs, containers, ser... |
| 19.11.2018 | - | 2019 is going to be an explosive year for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) . The time for science projects is over. CXOs in multiple verticals have clear charters to deploy at scale starting 2019. Large OEMs are reorganizing internal re... |
| 13.11.2018 | - | One year ago, VMware, the virtualization giant, announced the intention to acquire VeloCloud, the leader in SD-WAN. VeloCloud’s solution was viewed as a complimentary product to an established data center solution, completing a portfolio th... |
| 10.11.2018 | - |
With the widespread adoption of containers, micro-services, and multi-cloud application design model, new challenges have risen in designing and managing these modern applications. Applications are becoming increasingly dis-aggregated int... |
| 07.11.2018 | - | Rajan Raghavan, CEO of The Fabric, an alumni and member board of trustees of Clarkson University, in discussion with the Clarkson Ignite on his early student days at Clarkson, IoT, and entrepreneurial journey.
Tune into the podcast: Ep 5: ... |
| 29.10.2018 | - | Prabakar Sundarrajan, The Fabric’s Chief Scientist on 5G for Verizon Ventures
How will 5G integration help propel your industry to new heights?
We are excited by the advent of 5G as it will create new opportunities for disruptive infrastr... |
| 09.10.2018 | - | This year’s theme of The Fabric Summit was Infrastructure Innovations for a Connected World.
Every year, The Summit attracts over 150 CxOs, investors, advisors, entrepreneurs. This year we surpassed these numbers.
Rajan Raghavan, CEO of T... |
| 21.09.2018 | - | Investment Led by March Capital Partners and Supported by GE Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, JC2 Ventures and Juniper Ventures Validates Strength of ioTium Solutions Deployed in Industrial Fortune 500 Enterprises Worldwide
Santa Clara, Calif... |
| 10.09.2018 | - | It is well known that a majority of startups fail. Yet the lure to join startups continues. There is no shortage of entrepreneurs pursuing the next big thing, particularly in the United States.
Some people are born to be entrepreneurs. The... |
| 04.09.2018 | - | Scaling innovation is always one of the hardest things to do. Very few technology companies can lay claim to be constantly innovating, consistently profitable and continually relevant even as technology continues to get obsolete at a faster... |
| 12.07.2018 | - | Our co-created company Spanugo which offers solutions that provide visibility and help improve the overall security posture of the IT infrastructure, whether on the Cloud or in your own Data Center, has raised a round of funding by Ideaspri... |
| 28.06.2018 | - |
In my last blog Are enterprises flocking the public cloud I made a case for multi-cloud. But is multi-cloud for everyone? As per RightScale’s State of Cloud report 2018, many enterprises are using or planning to use more than two public... |
| 24.05.2018 | - | Industry Veterans Alan Boehme of P&G and Pankaj Patel, former EVP and CDO of Cisco Join Co-Creation Foundry Advisory Board
Mountain View, CA – May 24, 2018 – The Fabric, a pioneer in co-creating companies focused on cloud and IoT infra... |
| 21.05.2018 | - | In a recent video interview, Verizon Ventures’ Vijay Doradla sat down with The Fabric’s CEO, Rajan Raghavan to discuss Verizon Ventures’ recent investment in The Fabric as well as emerging technologies in the enterprise including 5G, IoT in... |
| 10.05.2018 | - | Rajan Raghavan, CEO of The Fabric, for Monty TV at The Montgomery Summit 2018 talks about The Fabric’s co-creation approach in building companies in the cloud and IoT infrastructure space, where and how to find the next big entrepreneur and... |
| 09.05.2018 | - | Co-creation foundry focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure companies brings its innovative venture model and approach to European upstarts.
Mountain View, CA – May 9, 2018 – The Fabric, a pioneer in co-creating US-based cloud and IoT infr... |
| 04.05.2018 | - |
How is The Fabric different than other investing and accelerating models?
When Prabakar Sundarrajan and I left Juniper after the acquisition of Ankeena, we wanted to continue our entrepreneurial journey. The rapid adoption of cloud, mo... |
| 26.04.2018 | - | The investment firm The Fabric is set to unleash $20 million in new funding having sourced $20 million from the likes of Verizon Ventures, Citrix, and Hitachi. Those funds are targeted at startups. And hope springs eternal that one of those... |
| 26.04.2018 | - | Mountain View, CA – April 25, 2018 – The Fabric, a pioneer in co-creating companies focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure technology, today announced the close of $20 million in investment from Verizon Ventures, March Capital Partners, Ci... |
| 17.04.2018 | - |
I enjoyed answering M.R. Rangaswami’s questions where we summarized The Fabric’s birth, our approach in co-creating companies with entrepreneurs, and differences between The Fabric and accelerators, VC firms.
The interview in full:
M.R.... |
| 23.03.2018 | - |
From the early days of commercial computing, security has been an integral part of the software. But compliance is a recent development and has gained significant ground in the past two decades. Given the alphabet soup of compliance stand... |
| 22.03.2018 | Technology infrastructure launchpad The Fabric raises $15 million | - |
| 07.03.2018 | - | Co-creation foundry in cloud and infrastructure space delivers gross return of 7x in less than 5 years on Fabric 1
Mountain View, CA – March 7, 2018 – The Fabric, a pioneer in co-creating companies focused on cloud and IoT infrastructure... |
| 02.03.2018 | - |
Now, this might sound cliché! But everybody is running to the cloud! Going by recent quarterly reports by Amazon, Microsoft and Google, their respective cloud revenues have grown at a tremendous rate—combined annualized revenue for these ... |
| 13.02.2018 | - | It is pretty clear to most observers that the telco/communication service provider (CSP) industry is at a critical turning point. Telcos know that if they can get NFV (Network Function Virtualization) services that can help them deliver glo... |
| 02.02.2018 | - |
Bitcoin prices are the lowest in two months. Other cryptocurrencies are following the downward trend. Since the beginning of the year, cryptocurrency markets have been hit by a string of negative news. Fears of tighter regulation in Chi... |
| 26.01.2018 | - |
From left: Shridhar Venkatraman and Ashu Pande
I’m excited by the continued success and growth of The Fabric and am pleased to announce that Shridhar Venkatraman and Ashu Pande join The Fabric team.
Shridhar and Ashu will be playing an ... |
| 25.01.2018 | - |
Today’s networks work harder than ever. Our reliance on apps and cloud services means that nearly everything we do — even writing this blog — requires constant network chatter. However, not all networks are the same, nor are all types of ... |
| 17.01.2018 | - |
2018 marks the fifth anniversary of The Fabric. When Rajan Raghavan, Prabakar Sundarrajan, and I conceived the structure of The Fabric, we intended to find a way to collaborate with entrepreneurs we respected to co-create new ideas and te... |
| 02.11.2017 | - | We are excited to celebrate the announcement of the acquisition of VeloCloud by VMware, marking the acquisition of the third of the four companies co-created with The Fabric’s first fund. This rate of success, as well as the magnitude of th... |
| 31.10.2017 | - | The Fabric CloudBlazers Forum is the community of cloud and infrastructure experts. It brings together a group of thought leaders in the networking industry.
This time, we met to discuss the security problems facing the IoT revolution.
... |
| 30.10.2017 | - |
Photo: Shashi Kiran and Dan Maloney
Being actively associated with the startup ecosystem for several years now and having worked in bigger corporations for over 15 years, I’m often asked what the recipe for startup success is and if ther... |
| 19.10.2017 | - |
From left to right: Prabakar Sundarrajan (The Fabric), Dan Maloney (CEO, Perspica), Rajan Raghavan (The Fabric)
Today, we are excited to announce that Perspica has been acquired by Cisco.
Congratulations to Dan Maloney, JF Huard and the... |
| 04.10.2017 | - |
Photo: The Pensa team #sleepershark
We at The Fabric, a startup co-creation foundry, and accelerator with a focus on cloud/IoT infrastructure space are excited to announce Pensa‘s launch, one of our portfolio companies we co-created.
We... |
| 19.09.2017 | - | As we mentioned in the previous blog about The Fabric Innovation Lab, the lab was established right at the inception of The Fabric to accelerate the technology development of each of the co-created companies, right from the get-go. In this ... |
| 14.09.2017 | - | The Fabric team collaborates actively with entrepreneurs to help create, fund and launch cloud/IoT infrastructure startups. VeloCloud, the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, was the first company that The Fabric co-created four years ago.
Her... |
| 13.09.2017 | - | In the last blog, we examined how security is threatening the economic promise of the “Industrial Internet of Things” – also part of Operational Technology. Further, we suggested that “IIoT security is, paradoxically, both completely differ... |
| 08.09.2017 | - | A new sovereign has ascended the throne of enterprise infrastructure space – it is cloud-delivered Infrastructure.
It has been close to five years since Rajan Raghavan and I joined with Sumant Mandal to launch The Fabric. At the inception,... |
| 14.08.2017 | - | The Fabric is excited to welcome Tom Joyce as the CEO of Pensa. It is a real testament to the founding team of Pensa and Fabric’s deeply collaborative co-creation approach that Pensa could build a technology platform and a product that coul... |
| 19.07.2017 | - | Without a doubt, “Internet of Things” is one of the biggest trends in technology today. Gartner’s 2016 Internet of things Forecast estimates that by 2020 there will be over 3 BILLION “smart” devices connected to business and industrial netw... |
| 13.07.2017 | - | Since our inception, The Fabric, a startup foundry which deeply collaborates with entrepreneurs to co-create cloud infrastructure startups, established an Innovation Lab to turbocharge the technology development efforts of its co-created co... |
| 17.05.2017 | - | We are excited that IoTium emerged from The Fabric co-creation platform and happy to have worked with Ron Victor and the IoTium team from the inception in creating the vision and help grow it into this terrific company. We’re pleased to be ... |
| 03.05.2017 | - | I moderated a great at The Fabric Cloudblazer meetup on the topic of Hybrid/multi-cloud security and compliance, which was hosted at HPE Santa Clara. There was a remarkable panel and the discussion was very interesting and enlightening.
Ou... |
| 20.03.2017 | - |
Join us on April 20th to hear a panel of experts from VISA, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and The Fabric talk about Security and Compliance in the Hybrid Cloud Age.
This meetup has brought together distinguished speakers from VISA... |
| 03.03.2017 | - | Series D Financing Led by Hermes Growth Partners to Continue VeloCloud Leadership in SD-WAN Worldwide
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 2, 2017
VeloCloud™ Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN™ company, today announced that it has clo... |
