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A year ago, Mazu Networks had $10,000 in pocket, courtesy of MIT. Five months later, it raised $8 million more, and now is showing the world what $8,010,000 will get you - a platform to guard corporations against nefarious "denial of service" (DoS) Internet attacks.
Mazu was a runner-up in MIT's 50K business plan competition. Since then, its target market has been seeing competitive activity, as businesses wrestle with attacks from distributed locations that are designed to disable their networks with floods of data.
At a presentation to potential investors in Boston last week, Mazu chief executive officer Phil London said that the company already has more than 10 trials of its system, including with industry stalwart Exodus Communications.
The company's devices sit in Internet data centers. It passively "taps" Internet traffic in the switching infrastructure of a data center, profil ing and monitoring IP data on a...