Pune-based Arkin raises $15 million funding; launches Platform and Cloud Service

Pune and Silicon Valley-based data centre software company Arkin has raised $15 million Series B investment from Nexus Venture Partners, key strategic investors and industry veterans including B.V. Jagadeesh (formerly CEO at NetScaler). The company also announced the availability of their Platform and Cloud Service, that brings visibility and converged operations to software-defined data centers (SDDC). [caption id=“attachment_2013509” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Image: Thinkstock[/caption]   “With a radically simple Google Search-like experience, Arkin Platform enables organisations to rapidly search, analyze, share and collaborate across virtual and physical layers of their infrastructure. The platform can be deployed on-premise or consumed as a service in the Arkin cloud (SaaS),” the company stated. “Arkin delivers seamless operations for converged infrastructures and software-defined data centres built using technologies such as VMware NSX, Cisco UCS, VCE Vblocks, Palo Alto Networks firewalls and others.” “Organisations now are forced to rethink their operations strategy,” said Shiv Agarwal, CEO and Co-Founder of Arkin. “Based on a modern collaborative approach, the Arkin platform ties together the datacentre silos across virtual and physical. Some of the largest enterprises have deployed Arkin to simplify their operations and unlock significant cost savings and agility." “Arkin is unlocking the true potential of software-defined data centres by bringing in data driven visibility, cross domain analytics, and power of collaboration that was largely unknown to the siloed world of IT Operations.  We are thrilled to have partnered with the Arkin team right from inception and look forward to helping them build a category leading company," said Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Nexus Venture Partners and Board Member of Arkin. Arkin was co-founded by IITians Shiv Agarwal, Mukul Gupta, Rohit Toshniwal and Abhijit Sharma who have been a part of VMware, Microsoft and Amberpoint (acquired by Oracle) previously.