The data storage company has now raised $45m, after Cisco reinvested together with several venture firms.

US-based cloud data storage provider CTERA Networks closed a $25m series C round on Wednesday backed by investors including networking technology provider Cisco.

Venture capital firms Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital and Venrock also participated in the round, the latter two having invested with Cisco in CTERA Network’s $11m series B round in March 2012. CTERA’s 2009 series A round raised $9m.

Liran Eshel, co-founder and chief executive of CTERA Networks, said: “CTERA was founded on the belief that organisations…