Rocana
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Rocana, formerly ScalingData, was a San Francisco IT operations analytics company founded in 2014. Its Rocana Ops platform captured and analyzed machine data from across data-center infrastructure, keeping it online and queryable for years so operations teams could perform root-cause analysis and surface emerging problems before they caused outages.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Rocana (as ScalingData) is founded in San Francisco to bring big-data analytics to IT operations.
- Peak funding round
Rocana closes a $15 million Series B led by Google Ventures in April 2015, growing to a 65-person distributed team.
- Acquisition
On October 9, 2017 Splunk acquires Rocanas technology and intellectual property assets, with technical staff joining Splunk; terms are not disclosed.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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