Bradford Networks, the best choice to enable secure network access for corporate issued and personal mobile devices, today announced the closing of a $3 million round of financing.  Updata Partners led the round and was joined by Windspeed Ventures. The investment will support Bradford’s rapid expansion into the healthcare and government markets, fueled by increasing demand for the company’s Network Sentry product as part of a comprehensive Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) security approach.

As per SEC filings, Vanu in Cambridge, MA has raised $3.2M in funding.  Vanu provides wireless infrastructure solutions for commercial carriers and government customers, focusing on coverage needs where current technology does not provide a
cost effective solution for carriers today.

Citrix announced the acquisition of Virtual Computer, provider of enterprise-scale management solutions for client-side virtualization. Citrix will combine the newly-acquired Virtual Computer technology with its market-leading XenClient® hypervisor to create the new Citrix XenClient Enterprise edition. The new XenClient Enterprise will combine all the power of the XenClient hypervisor with a rich set of management functionality designed to help enterprise customers manage large fleets of corporate laptops across a distributed enterprise. The combined solution will give corporate laptop users the power of virtual desktops “to go”, while making it far more secure and cost-effective for IT to manage thousands of corporate laptops across today’s increasingly mobile enterprise.

As per SEC filings, Intronis in Boston, MA has raised $2.9M in funding.  Intronis Cloud Backup and Recovery is a world-class cloud backup solution for the IT channel.

Today Certeon Inc. announced that Massood Zarrabian has joined Certeon as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and that they have raised a new $4 million round of venture capital to fund continuing investments in R&D and Sales.

Ipswitch's Network Management Division, developers of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, announced today that it has acquired iOpus Software, a leading provider of Web application performance testing and monitoring solutions from the cloud. The addition of the iOpus AlertFox and iMacros capabilities will empower application owners and IT staff customers to more effectively track and ensure optimal Web application performance, creating a better end-user experience. With this acquisition, Ipswitch's market leading and affordable IT Management solutions will now extend to every layer of web infrastructure from the cloud to the end-user.

As per SEC filings, Radio Mobile Access in Andover, MA has raised $9.5M in funding.  Radio Mobile Access is building an array of solutions for the mobile broadband industry. Their vision/mission is to enhance communications experience, and reduce cost of technology.

Terascala, Inc., the leader in accelerating big data applications through storage I/O optimization, today announced that it has closed a $14 million Series B funding round.  Strategic partners close to the company invested approximately fifty percent of the round, with Ascent Venture Partners, an early backer of the company, contributing the remainder.  Terascala will use the funding to significantly expand research and development, marketing, customer support, to develop strategic alliances, and to fuel international expansion.

As reported by Scott Kirsner, Silver Lining Systems in Cambridge, MA has raised $2M in funding.  Silver Lining Systems is a startup with roots out of Columbia University.  Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners and angel investors: Steve Papa, Rob Soni, David Murphy, & Dev Ittycheria.  The company is looking to improve the performance of cloud-based applications and services by removing data center bottlenecks.

Copiun Inc., provider of the first and only secure mobile collaboration solution with end-to-end data governance, today announced that it has closed the final tranche of its $5 million Series A funding led by venture capital firm, Novak Biddle Venture Partners. The company met all performance milestones required to initiate the latest investment, having expanded both its customer base and revenue tenfold in 2011. In addition, Copiun established new partnerships and grew its product portfolio over the past six months. 

As per SEC filings, NuoDB in Cambridge, MA has raised $10M in funding.  NuoDB is a SQL database with 100% ACID semantics. Unlike existing SQL databases NuoDB delivers the key requirements for cloud-style environments, including dynamically adding or deleting nodes from a live system. NuoDB can also move live databases between datacenters, allocate unused remote machines to any database, maintain redundant disk-based copies of any database, run databases in hybrid cloud configurations and dynamically allocate databases to arbitrary groups of machines

Veracode, Inc., the leader in application security services, today announced it has secured $30M in additional funding from Meritech Capital Partners and existing investors -- Atlas Venture, .406 Ventures and StarVest Partners. Veracode is the only company that can provide scalable application security as a service to help commercial enterprises and government agencies address the acute threat posed by hackers.

CloudLock, the software company securing enterprise cloud data, today announced it has raised $8.7 million in a Series B funding round from new investor Ascent Venture Partners and existing investor Cedar Fund.

The latest financing will be used to expand the company’s engineering divisions to keep up with rising customer demand, extend its solutions to new platforms and accelerate CloudLock’s domestic and international sales efforts. As one of the first Security-as-a-Service companies in the world, CloudLock is committed to investing in innovation around its core competency, cloud data security services. CloudLock will focus much of its employee growth in its new headquarters in Waltham, MA.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced it has acquired San Francisco-based Pivotal Labs, a privately-held provider of agile software development services and tools. The all-cash transaction is not expected to have a material impact to EMC GAAP or non-GAAP EPS for the full 2012 fiscal year.

Per an open letter from Likewise's CEO Barry Crist, Likewise has been acquired by the Isilon Storage Division of EMC.  Likewise is based in Bellevue, WA and was founded nearly seven years ago with a focus on providing an easy method for organizations to manage access and data across Windows, Linux & Unix, and Mac environments.

GreenPages Technology Solutions, a national cloud and virtualization consulting and integration firm, announced today that it is has acquired Atlanta-based LogicsOne—a virtualization, storage, and cloud technology consulting and management provider. The move accelerates GreenPages’ virtualization and cloud management growth strategy and brings the company’s total number of cross-trained engineers to more than 60.

Abine, Inc., a leader in online privacy protection for consumers, announced its acquisition of the popular Google Sharing privacy service. Developed by renowned security expert and web engineer Moxie Marlinspike, GoogleSharing anonymizes users’ Google searches, preventing the search giant from gathering personal information about consumers’ search histories.

The changes to Google’s privacy policy, which go into effect today, will allow Google to begin connecting search activity to a user’s profile that spreads across the company’s more than 70 properties. If users are logged into any Google accounts and are using its services, the company will be able to create a profile for them filled with an alarming amount of information that includes every search they’ve run, email they’ve sent or received, video watched on YouTube, conversation had on GChat, and more.

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimization solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today announced that it has secured $12M in a series B funding round. The round saw participation from existing investor OpenView Venture Partners as well as attracting new investment from Greenspring Associates. The funds will be used as working capital to support Exinda’s continued market penetration and targeted growth in the wake of a 116% increase in revenues during the course of 2011.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Blaze Software Inc., a provider of frontend optimization (FEO) technology, in a cash transaction. The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai's market-leading site acceleration solutions with technology designed to optimize the speed at which a web page is rendered, regardless of end user device.

Polatis, Inc. the performance leader in all-optical switch technology, today announced it has secured $2.7M (USD) in additional funding from the company's existing investors. Polatis is a privately held company backed by well known technology-focused venture capital and private equity investment firms in the USA and Europe.

Polatis' investors include Flagship Ventures, JK&B Capital, DFJ Esprit, Encore Ventures, Alta-Berkeley Ventures, Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation, Prism VentureWorks and Gainesborough Investments.

Co3 Systems, a pioneer in Data Loss Management software, today announced its first institutional funding and that it has added security and legal expert, Gant Redmon, to its executive team as Co3’s first General Counsel and Vice President of Business Development. Redmon adds invaluable and unique expertise to Co3 and its customers by combining nearly 20 years of experience tracking law and regulations across multiple sectors with extensive startup experience in the security sector. Earlier in his career Redmon received distinction as an appointee on President Clinton’s Export Counsel Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC), which navigated the needs of US corporations and the Federal Government to increase both National Security and global competitiveness.

netBlazr announced today that it has raised $275K and has another $50K committed to its efforts to expand its innovative free internet service to Boston businesses. With Carbonite (a netBlazr co-op member) Founder and CEO David Friend leading the round, netBlazr continues discussions with additional investors and angels interested in revolutionizing broadband in America.

As per SEC filings, GlassHouse Technologies in Framingham, MA has raised $4.4M in debt financing.  GlassHouse Technologies is a global provider of data center infrastructure consulting services.

As per SEC filings, Bluespec in Framingham, MA has raised $1.5M in funding.  Bluespec is The Synthesizable Modeling Company. With Bluespec, models and test benches can be synthesized along with legacy IP to employ emulation much earlier for modeling, verification and early software development.

As per SEC filings, Azuki Systems in Acton, MA has raised $5.1M in funding.  Azuki Systems is leading the video delivery revolution to any screen over any network. Azuki’s solutions deliver rich, protected content to any device over any network, allowing content owners, enterprises and service providers to capitalize on the explosive growth of smartphones, tablets and multiple screens.

Sonian, the pioneer in cloud-powered archiving and search, today announced the acquisition of Webroot’s Email Archiving business. The agreement transitions Webroot customers and prospective customers of their Email Archiving business over to Sonian.

Today’s announcement extends Sonian’s customer base of over 9,000 customers and 4 billion objects and builds upon the already successful investor and partner relationship between Sonian and Webroot. With a new EMEA office in the UK, and the addition of new partnerships in Asia Pacific, Sonian will work closely with Webroot’s existing partner channels to deliver world-class archiving to their users.

VideoIQ, the recognized leader in intelligent all-in-one video surveillance solutions, today announced that is has expanded its Series C investment round with an additional $3.5 million from its existing investors Atlas Venture, Matrix Partners and Tenaya Capital.  The incremental funds bring the total Series C round to $11M and will be used to further support the expansion of the sales and product development teams globally.

Powered by VideoIQ’s award winning adaptive analytics, VideoIQ’s self-calibrating iCVR all-in-one video surveillance solutions improve security by delivering superior accuracy and range.  Unlike conventional IP video surveillance systems, which face significant bandwidth and storage challenges, VideoIQ’s iCVR onboard storage provides months of recording while eliminating the need to backhaul video to central storage servers – reducing bandwidth consumption by over 90 percent.

As per SEC filings, ownCloud in Lexington, MA has raised $820K towards a planned $1.25M round of funding.  Based on the popular ownCloud open source community project, ownCloud was founded in 2011 to bring greater flexibility, access and security of unstructured data to enterprises.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) and Cotendo announced today that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Cotendo.

Helping to mitigate the challenges of operating in a hyperconnected world, Akamai provides a secure platform over which businesses can engage users across the Web, mobile, cloud, or a mix of public and private network environments. Cotendo offers an integrated suite of Web and mobile acceleration services. The combination of the two companies’ technologies and teams is expected to increase the pace of innovation in the areas of cloud and mobile optimization.