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Netris raises $15 million Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
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The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business.
Key facts
- To build on that momentum, Netris has now raised $15 million in a Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz, TechCrunch has exclusively learned
- Today, Netris is live at more than 35 GPU clusters around the world (about a million GPUs total), operated by the likes of Lightning AI, Foxconn, Visionbay, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, TensorWave
- Until recently, data centers were largely the domain of large infrastructure operators like Equinix, NTT, Digital Realty, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, or Google
- At traditional data centers, they were using something called SDN [software-defined networking] to do this, but SDN is falling short, because it’s a software technology,” Netris’ CEO Alex Saroyan
Summary
Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running, and be able to cater to customers’ various needs. Network automation startup Netris claims it can make that problem disappear for neoclouds. If that sounds like a solution to an obvious problem, you’re not wrong. “As a GPU cluster operator, you need to make configuration changes to every link, every day. At traditional data centers, they were using something called SDN to do this, but SDN is falling short, because it’s a software technology,” Netris’ CEO Alex Saroyan told TechCrunch.