Salesforce Acquires Israeli Startup Coolan

 | July 24, 2016 | US cloud computing company Salesforce.com has acquired Coolan, an Israeli data center management software startup co-founded by Amir Michael, a former Facebook and Google hardware engineer and one of the founders of the Open Compute Project for an undisclosed amount. Facebook’s open source data center and hardware design initiative. Salesforce’s initial plan is to use Coolan’s technology to optimize its infrastructure, Michael said in a blog post announcing the deal. Salesforce.com has previously bought three Israeli startups: SaaS encryption services company Navajo Systems in 2011, data-mining startup Bluetail in 2012, and data-entry automation startup Implisit Insights earlier this year.