Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

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The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business. But spinning up a data center isn’t easy.

Even if you solve the problem of securing the GPUs, network switches, and storage, you still have to get everything configured, running and be able to cater to customers’ various needs. Getting getting a data center ready to provide cloud-computing services AI inference and training services can take months of work. And the longer you take to get to market, the higher the cost of having all those precious GPUs sitting idle.

Network automation startup Netrisclaims it can make that problem disappear for neoclouds. The company provides software that runs on network switches, and it also offers a platform that connects to switches to help neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live by automating setup, configuration and operations. The platform also provides network...

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