Illumio is an American business
data center and
cloud computing security company.
History
Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and P. J. Kirner and is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
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Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the no ...
,
United States
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.
The initial $8 million round of
venture capital
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was led by
Andreessen Horowitz
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Andreessen H ...
. Steve Herrod, former CTO of VMware and managing director of General Catalyst Partners led the company’s $34.5 million round with participation by
Formation 8
Formation 8 was an American venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Joe Lonsdale, Jim Kim and Brian Koo. The company was headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The firm was one of the most successful venture capital firms in the industry be ...
, Data Collective,
Salesforce.com CEO
Marc Benioff and
Yahoo!
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founder
Jerry Yang.
BlackRock and Accel a $100 million round with participation from a number of investors including private investors
John W. Thompson, Jerry Yang and Marc Benioff as well as previous investors.
In September 2019, Illumio was ranked #25 in the
Forbes
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Cloud 100 list.
In February 2020, Stowe Australia, Australia's oldest and largest private electrical contractor, selected Illumio to provide security for its data centers across Australia.
Technology
Illumio’s technology decouples security from the underlying network and hypervisor.
This allows for a security approach that works across a variety of computing environments, including private data centers, private clouds, and public clouds.
Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) uses the context (state, relationships, etc.) of workloads (bare-metal and virtual servers, etc.) in the computing environment and keeps security policies intact.
Unlike traditional security systems such as
firewalls that rely on
imperative programming
In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm of software that uses statements that change a program's state. In much the same way that the imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands, an imperative program co ...
techniques due to static networking constructs, Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is based on
declarative programming
In computer science, declarative programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow.
Many languages that a ...
and computes security in real time.
References
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External links
Official website
2013 establishments in California
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area