networking software cloud networking founded january 2010 headquarters mountain view california usa key people josh leslie ceo jr rivers cto & co founder nolan leake co founder products operating system for switches website www.cumulusnetworks.com cumulus networks is a computer software company headquartered in mountain view california usa . the company designs and sells a linux operating system for industry standard network switches to deliver networking solutions for large datacenter cloud computing and enterprise environments . contents 1 background 2 see also 3 references 4 external links background edit cumulus networks was founded by jr rivers and nolan leake in 2010 . the company raised a first round of seed funding in 2012 . 1 cumulus networks emerged publicly in june 2013 2 after previously operating in stealth mode . 3 4 5 the company is backed by andreessen horowitz battery ventures sequoia capital peter wagner and 4 of the 5 original vmware founders . 6 7 in 2014 dell made a deal with cumulus to offer the option of the cumulus linux network os with their switches . 8 in 2015 hewlett packard enterprise made a deal with cumulus networks to offer cumulus linux on their altoline switches . 9 see also edit linux open network install environment pica8 open compute project open source computing hardware software defined networking references edit stacey higginbotham march 5 2012 . the lowdown on stealth startup cumulus networks . gigaom . deborah gage june 19 2013 . bringing linux to networking cumulus publicly emerges blog . the wall street journal . paul venezia june 19 2013 . cumulus networks unveils cisco killer . greg ferro june 19 2013 . cumulus networks casts a shadow on cisco strategy . jack clark june 20 2013 . cumulus sighting means storm coming for cisco . cumulus networks brings the power of linux to networking . june 19 2013 . cumulus networks investors . dell teams with cumulus networks to sell bare metal switches . hp launches new open network switches for web scale cloud data centers . external links edit official website onie website this corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cumulus networks & oldid 724016016 categories networking software companiescompanies based in mountain view californiacompanies established in 2010networking companies of the united states2010 establishments in californiacompany stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 6 june 2016 at 16 54 . 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