Pluribus Networks, a leader in distributed cloud networking and SDN automation, recently announced a funding round of $20 million led by investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.
The financing will be used to bolster R&D for multiple new product initiatives along with sales and marketing resources that will further accelerate the company’s penetration into the distributed cloud market, while supporting expansion into adjacent sectors.
With organizations continuing to embrace distributed cloud networking, Pluribus is experiencing strong market traction delivering automated data center networking solutions to both enterprise and service providers across all regions and verticals. Its portfolio of high-performance Freedom 9000 series data center switches, combined with the Netvisor® ONE OS and the Adaptive Cloud Fabric controllerless SDN automation software, delivers a highly automated and cost-effective network fabric that increases agility and radically simplifies network operations across distributed data center locations.
Pluribus software is also available on a variety of high-performance hardware platforms, including Dell EMC PowerSwitch and Edgecore Networks Open Cloud white box data center switches.
Morgan Stanley adds to Pluribus’ existing portfolio of top-tier investors, including Ericsson, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Temasek, Menlo Ventures, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures, Data Collective Venture Capital and Mohr Davidow. Prior to this financing round, Pluribus had previously raised $125 million in funding and will now continue to innovate and grow share in the data center networking market.
Kumar Srikantan, Pluribus Networks, president and chief executive officer
With such pronounced momentum of cloud infrastructure towards distributed data center architectures, Pluribus is uniquely positioned to address a number of multi-site data centers, edge computing and metro use cases by providing networks that are highly distributed and perform at scale.
