Illumio is an American business
data center
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and
cloud computing security
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company.
History
Illumio was founded in 2013 by Andrew Rubin and P. J. Kirner and is headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...
,
United States.
The initial $8 million round of
venture capital was led by
Andreessen Horowitz. 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, Data Collective,
Salesforce.com CEO
Marc Benioff and
Yahoo! founder
Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
As of February 2022, Yang has a net worth ...
.
BlackRock and Accel a $100 million round with participation from a number of investors including private investors
John W. Thompson
John Wendell Thompson (born April 24, 1949) is an American technology executive who was the chair of Microsoft from 2014 until June 2021, and chair of Illumina (company), Illumina since 2021. He is a former chief executive of Virtual Instrument ...
, Jerry Yang and Marc Benioff as well as previous investors.
In September 2019, Illumio was ranked #25 in the
Forbes 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 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 ap ...
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