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Pica8 Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 WinnerPica8 Inc., the one-stop source for white box networking, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the AlwaysOn Global 250 award winners. Inclusion in the AlwaysOn Global 250 signifies leadership among its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players in the Global Silicon Valley. Pica8 was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. "The AlwaysOn Global 250 are the best-of-breed private companies in consumer and business-to-business applications, and cloud and mobile infrastructure sectors -- representing the fastest growing and most highly valued new companies on the planet," explained AlwaysOn founder and editor, Tony Perkins. "The business market continues to be reinvented by a new generation of big data and analytics companies and new efficiencies in cloud technology and services." The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2015 list. A full list of all the lwaysOn Global 250 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at: http://www.aonetwork.com/. "Pica8 is changing network dynamics by bringing white box switching to service providers and organizations around the world," said Steve Garrison, vice president of marketing at Pica8. "We are honored to have been named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 list." About Pica8, Inc. Pica8 is the one-stop source for white box networking. Since 2009, Pica8 has pioneered open networking with PicOS™, the first network operating system that enables data center customers to easily integrate Layer-2 / Layer-3 networking and software-defined networking (SDN) using commodity white box switches. PicOS supports an industry-standard CLI for Layer-2 / Layer-3, unmodified Linux, and OpenFlow 1.4. Pica8 makes white box adoption seamless by providing PicOS on both pre-loaded switching hardware or as standalone software on a growing list of compatible bare metal switches. Pica8 is a global company headquartered in Palo Alto (News - Alert), California. For more information, visit www.pica8.com or follow @pica8 on Twitter (News - Alert). About AlwaysOn AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand connecting and informing the entrepreneurial community in the Global Silicon Valley. Founded by Red Herring (News - Alert) founding editor, Tony Perkins in 2003, AlwaysOn's mission is to continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.
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