I received an email from Hyper9 last week which was kind of surprising. I planned to do a short article last week but for some reason I never managed to write and publish it. Here’s an outtake from the press release I received a week ago:
Hyper9, Inc. (www.hyper9.com), the leading provider of management information for virtual infrastructures announced today that it has raised $8 million in a series B funding round. Venrock, a highly respected venture capital firm, led the round. Joining Venrock were current investors Matrix Partners, Silverton Partners and Maples Investments.
The company also announced that Mike Maples Sr., a private investor and tech industry veteran, joined its Board of Directors. Formerly Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Products Group for Microsoft, Maples has a proven track record in advising software companies as they expand product lines and enhance business operations such as sales and marketing. Prior to Microsoft, Maples held senior positions at other market leading companies such as IBM, Lexmark, NetIQ, and Sonic restaurants.
In short they raised an enormous amount of money and managed to get Mike Maples Sr. on board. Mike Maples worked for Microsoft as a VP so you can imagine he knows what game needs to be played to bring Hyper9 to the next level.
Besides Mike Maples, Andrew Kutz also joined Hyper9(Source Boche.net). Andrew is well known for the Storage VMotion plugin he created for the vCenter Client.
I haven’t personally beta tested the upcoming Hyper9 product but it seems promissing, it will probably be released at the end of this month! So keep an eye on their website.