Last deal

$5.95M

Amount

Debt Financing

Stage

02.08.2013

Date

3

all rounds

$93.71M

Total amount

date founded

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About Company
Astute Networks is a provider of performance storage appliances for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.

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founded date

01.01.2000

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Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Debt Financing

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's patented DataPump Engine delivers a high level of best-in-class iSCSI IOPS with 100% sustained random I/O performance to eliminate performance-robbing I/O bottlenecks that degrade virtual machine and application performance and limits user productivity. ViSX is available through an established network of solution providers. Astute Networks offers machine storage appliances designed to offer high-performance virtual services, which increase performance, enhance user productivity, and lower information technology costs.
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Director

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