LineSider Technologies is leading the evolution of communications networks to meet the requirements of cloud computing. With next-generation network services virtualization, the Company helps service providers and enterprise organizations, transform their networks into dynamic and fluid infrastructures that can respond rapidly to changes in dynamic cloud computing environments.

According to external reports, the major inhibitors to the widespread adoption of cloud computing are network-related. The network is still static and was not designed to support this new dynamic reality. Every time something changes in the virtualized datacenter, there needs to be some type of manual intervention to provision network services or repair broken security and access models. One of the biggest challenges facing large virtual computing deployments is the enormous amount of operational time spent on creating and modifying network connectivity and security to support virtual computing.

LineSider Technologies has focused its energy and resources on solving these challenges and has introduced OverDrive, the industry’s first network services virtualization platform. 

Key facts:

• Founded: 2005
  
  
• Headquarters: Danvers, Massachusetts, USA, Field Offices in London and New York.
  
  
• Target Markets: Enterprise, cloud providers and system integrators
  
  
• Product: OverDrive network services virtualization platform orchestrates real-time automation and control of network services so that enterprises and cloud service providers are able to eliminate the need for manual network intervention as changes in the computing environment occur. This dramatically reduces operations costs and provides the flexibility, agility, and scalability required to support dynamic computing environments.
  
  
• OverDrive allows service providers to offer cloud-based services with superior economics by enabling the underlying network to be dynamically fluid with the agility, flexibility and scalability needed to respond to customer’s ever changing business climate.
  
  
• Technology Partners: EMC, Cisco Systems, VMware, Verari
  
  
• Channel Partners: EMC, Cisco Systems, 3Com, Accenture, American Systems, Price Waterhouse Coopers
  
  
• Customers: GMH Capital Partners, Broadband Access Network Group (formerly Comcast), EMC, American Systems Corporation (ASC)
  
  
• Privately held