information technology fate acquired successor emc corporation founded 2003 founder gili raanan defunct 2006 headquarters herzliya israel cupertino california ; products service discovery solutions website www.nlayers.com 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 . contents 1 history 2 technology 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit nlayers was founded by gili raanan in 2003 and is headquartered in cupertino california with a research and development center in herzliya israel . 1 initial funding was provided by venture capital funds gemini israel funds and walden israel . 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 since its acquisition on june 7 2006 nlayers was a subsidiary of emc 5 and was later merged into vmware . 6 in june 2013 vmware announced that end of life date for the original nlayers product will be 03 08 2017 . 7 technology edit 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 . 8 see also edit emc corporation silicon wadi references edit walden israel and gemini israel funds lead 3m series a round in nlayers a software company specializing in applications management press release . nlayers . july 9 2003 . retrieved 2007 09 03 . griml guy emc pays 50m for startup nlayers the marker www.themarker.com eng guy griml 08 06 2006 nlayers improves on insight . retrieved 2016 09 13 . the forrester wave application mapping for the cmdb q1 2006 . www.forrester.com . retrieved 2016 09 13 . preimesberger chris ; paula musich june 8 2006 . emc swallows application mapping company nlayers . eweek . retrieved 2007 09 03 . emc n layers resource management . www.emc.com . retrieved 2016 09 13 . vmware vcenter application discovery manager works across physical and virtual infrastructures . www.vmware.com . retrieved 2016 09 13 . emc nlayers product page retrieved 2009 11 04 external links edit walden israel venture capital gemini israel funds retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title nlayers & oldid 739356064 categories companies based in cupertino californiaemc corporationcompanies established in 2003software companies of israel navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 06 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view