nLayers is a company specializing in
network discovery products; software designed to map the entirety of hosts, services, etc. that run on a given organization's network. Its primary product is "nLayers InSight".
History
nLayers was founded by
Gili Raanan
Gili Raanan (born 1969) is an Israeli venture capitalist and one of the inventors of CAPTCHA (US patent application with 1997 priority date ), the WAF ( web application firewall) and many other inventions in the fields of application security an ...
, in 2003 and is headquartered in
Cupertino, California
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with a research and development center in
Herzliya, Israel. Initial funding was provided by
Venture capital
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funds Gemini Israel Funds and Walden Israel.
The company was the first to introduce an agent-less technology to discover, understand and map the complex relationships between applications and the underlying technology infrastructure.
nLayers also offered one of the first real-life implementations of
CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and was recognized by analysts firm
Forrester as the leading CMDB product.
Since its acquisition on June 7, 2006, nLayers was a subsidiary of
EMC and was later merged into
Vmware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
. In June 2013
Vmware
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announced that end of life date for the original nLayers product will be 03/08/2017.
Technology
nLayers' technology expands EMC's Network Resource Management and
Storage Resource Management product portfolio, enhancing their ability to conduct automated comprehensive root-cause and impact analysis across all technology domains - including networks, applications and storage.
See also
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EMC Corporation
Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, clo ...
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Silicon Wadi
Silicon Wadi ( he, סִילִיקוֹן וְאֵדֵי, ) is a region in Israel that serves as one of the global centres for advanced technology. It spans the Israeli coastal plain, and is cited as among the reasons why the country has ...
References
External links
Walden Israel Venture CapitalGemini Israel Funds
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Companies based in Cupertino, California
Dell EMC
Companies established in 2003
Software companies of Israel