Curtail, a Santa Barbara, California-based IT implementation company, announced it raised $3.25 million in funding led by Tarus Capital along with several other investors.
What does Curtail do? It changes how IT is implemented for government agencies, financial institutions, service providers, and enterprise organizations that are developing new software and services, especially in DevOps and cloud environments.
Curtail’s network traffic analysis solution is called ReGrade. ReGrade helps customers release software updates faster with higher quality and enables DevOps teams to verify quality of software upgrades and patches using real production traffic, prevent costly rollbacks, compare open source alternatives for achieving the best application performance and security, handle quality assurance and production using breakthrough network traffic comparison analysis, and quickly report on software and web services differences.
And Curtail also offers a continuous security tool called ReCover — which helps teams mitigate zero-day attacks and prevents servers from being compromised. This is done by detecting and reducing the impact of zero-day attacks and isolating compromised servers without the risk of downtime.
“Traditional tools to find bugs in code are outdated in today’s rapid DevOps cycle times. While flaws in software can also be exploited by attacks, it’s most often the risk of unplanned downtime that causes the bigger risk for DevOps teams. It costs four to five times as much to fix a software bug after release, rather than during the design process,” said Curtail CEO Frank Huerta.
With this round of funding, the company is going to build up its engineering, sales, and marketing teams and initiatives.
“System downtime is the enemy of every business. Despite the risks of unplanned downtime, many organizations that develop software and services often push them live without knowing how the software will perform against production traffic. The industry needs new software testing methods to keep up with rapid DevOps cycles. Curtail’s approach is a game changer – helping customers to develop stronger applications and to eliminate the risks of software update differences and defects that impact quality as well as application security,” added Tarus Capital partner Chris Kane.
