50 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2016 by Julie Bort, Eugene Kim and Matt Weinberger on Nov 28, 2015, 8:01 AM Advertisement
 The 2015 Holiday Season is upon us and the year is drawing to a close. Soon our thoughts will drift to our hopes and goals for 2016. For those who are dreaming of a new job at an up-and-coming young company, we've compiled this list to help. All of these companies specialize in making tech for work and business use, a $3.5 trillion worldwide market. All of them had spectacular years in 2015, by launching great new technology or getting a boatload of funding or landing big partnerships and generally setting themselves up for a successful 2016 and beyond. SEE ALSO: Some tech workers over 50 are literally working themselves to death — and other things we discovered about their careers Docker: inventing a whole new industry  Company name: Docker
Headquarters: San Francisco
Funding to date: $180 million in 5 rounds Docker is a company that came on like wildfire in 2014 and continued to burn hot through 2015. It created a whole new industry called "containers." With Docker, programmers put their code into its containers and the code runs well on on all sorts of clouds, all sorts of devices. All the big cloud providers support Docker and in the past year, a whole bunch of competing containers from big guys (like Google) to startups have entered the market. But Docker is still the big Kahuna.
Cloudera: big data software that enterprises love  Company name: Cloudera
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California
Funding to date: $1.04 billion in 8 rounds Cloudera is one of the largest companies in a particular big-data field called Hadoop, a popular, open-source and low-cost way of storing loads of data. Its most recent funding came two years ago from Intel, which invested $740 million at nearly a $5 billion valuation. But 2015 was still a growth year for Cloudera. While other unicorns valuations (and fates) seem to be wavering, Fidelity Investments recently increased its valuation on its investment in Cloudera.
Nutanix: Upending the way people buy data center hardware  Company name: Nutanix
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Funding to date: $312.2 million in 5 rounds Nutanix, valued at $2 billion as of last year, helped create a new hardware market it calls "hyperconverged infrastructure." It sells one giant hunk of data center hardware that combines compute, storage, and the what's known as "virtualization software" (which helps servers run more efficiently), all in one easy-to-use package. At first, Nutanix was best pals with virtualization software titan VMware. But lately, Nutanix has been giving VMware a serious case of heartburn by increasingly going into direct competition. That's bad news for VMware, but good news for anyone looking to bet their career on Nutanix.
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