Type | Private Company |
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Industry | Software, Information Technology |
Founded | 2003 |
Founder | Gili Raanan |
Defunct | 2006 |
Fate | Acquired |
Successor | EMC Corporation |
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".
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]
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]
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