NetBox Labs, a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January, today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.
NS1, for the uninitiated, is a 10-year-old domain name system (DNS) and network automation platform used by the likes of Salesforce, VMware, LinkedIn, and DropBox to ensure maximum uptime for all their online services. A couple of years back, NS1 launched a new internal unit called NS1 Labs and hired Jeremy Stretch as “distinguished engineer.” Stretch was the creator and chief project maintainer for NetBox, a popular open source infrastructure resource modeling (IRM) tool developed around 2016 while Stretch was at DigitalOcean.
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NetBox essentially models and documents networks, bringing together IP address management (IPAM) and datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) to serve as a “single source of truth” for network automation — it gives enterprises deep insights into where all their infrastructure is, how it’s connected, how it’s growing, and quite a bit more.
NetBox dashboard Image Credits: NetBox
While NetBox is available for free to anyone under an open source Apache 2.0 license, NS1 has offered …
