Grazed from GeekWire.  Author: John Cook.

Ignition Partners continues to pump dollars into cloud computing startups — most of them which happen to be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The latest example is Iron.io, a San Francisco company that today announced $1.4 million in venture funding from Ignition, Baseline Ventures, Cloud Capital Partners, Citrix Systems and others.

Iron.io is the maker of IronWorker and IronMQ, the latter service which launched today and coordinates messages and event flow between cloud apps and systems.

“With IronMQ and IronWorker, we’re offloading the challenges of maintaining what ends up becoming pretty complex systems,” said Iron.io CEO Chad Arimura. “The funding we’ve received from our investors will help us to continue expanding our cloud application services for developers that are easy-to-use, durable and deliver ironclad value.”…

Grazed from VatorNews.  Author: Krystal Peak.

Bessemer Venture Partners and Union Square Ventures, investors from Twilio’s Series B funding, return to lead the start-up’s $17 million Series C fundig announced Wednesday — bringing the total company funding to just over $32.5 million.

The San Francisco-based cloud communications company, with big clients such as eBay, Salesforce, Hulu, Intuit and LinkedIn, has been aiding developers that want to add SMS, voice, and VoIP functionality to their apps.

Twilio is currently preparing to to roll out its services in 20 more European countries using the new round of funding…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author:  Pat Romanski.

iWave Software, a provider of storage and cloud automation solutions, on Tuesday introduced iWave Storage Director 1.5, a storage automation platform for companies to develop and operate cloud-based storage services on demand using their existing storage infrastructures. By automating the tasks associated with provisioning, reclamation and remediation for storage, iWave Software closes the gap between expanding storage requirements and a lack of available and affordable IT resources.

According to Brent Rhymes, CEO of iWave Software "automation is essential if we are to traverse the gap between IT staff and storage capabilities and the demands of data growth. Storage Director users bridge this storage automation gap and significantly increase productivity."…

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author:  JR Raphael.

For many of us, the cloud has changed the way we work and play. Thanks to well-known services like Gmail, Dropbox, Facebook and Instapaper, practically our whole lives — photos, documents, contacts and more — are online. So isn’t it time to take control?

A little tweaking can turn the cloud into a more powerful and personalized place. All it takes is a few simple browser add-ons and other tools to unlock the full potential of the Web’s most popular services.

Here, in no particular order, are 10 essential tools to help you make the most of your cloud experience. In this story, we’re focusing on tools you would use on your computer itself, either through a Web browser or with software you download and install, rather than mobile apps you would use on a smartphone or tablet. That said, however, some of these tools do offer a mobile component as well…

Grazed from Public Service Europe.  Author: Daniel Mason.

New European Union laws to be proposed next month will oblige companies to act more quickly to tell customers if their data is compromised, reinforce individuals’ rights to remove photos and videos from an internet profile without leaving a digital trace, and reduce the regulatory burden of data protection rules so that businesses can maximise the benefits of cloud computing – European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding said today.

Speaking at a GSMA Europe conference on cloud computing in Brussels, Reding said she would propose next month to protect internet users and unlock the technology’s potential. "Reliable and consistent rules are essential if we want the digital economy and our digital single market to grow." These rules make people feel comfortable about using new technologies and services. We need a framework for privacy that protects individuals and boosts the digital economy." The EU is also negotiating a data protection agreement with the United States…

Grazed from MSP Alliance.  Author: Raju Shanbhag.

Looking to simplify and accelerate the design and deployment of cloud-based enterprise computing solutions, OnX Enterprise Solutions has launched a new family of cloud and managed services.

With certified staff and ITIL-compliant processes, OnX monitors and manages a client’s private or shared operations 24x7x365. Offering maintenance, upgrades, development integration and version control, the company offers clients four levels of service and support to accommodate differing in-house capabilities and requirements, ranging from network and server/storage break-fix and maintenance, remote monitoring and 24x7x365 support, to complete service level agreement (SLA)-compliant infrastructure management and full application support as part of its new OnExpert support service, the company stated in a press release…

Grazed from The Street.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. ( IDT ^®);(NASDAQ:IDTI), the Analog and Digital Company™ delivering essential mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, today announced that it has expanded its leading timing portfolio with the industry’s most versatile WAN PLL supporting both Synchronous Ethernet (Sync Ethernet) and IEEE 1588 applications in cloud-based networking and 4G wireless infrastructure.

The IDT82V3391 is an integrated, single-chip PLL that supports both Sync Ethernet and IEEE1588 with legacy support for SDH, Sonet and T1/E1 clock rates. The broad range of supported protocols makes this product highly versatile, allowing system designers to use a single PLL device to support a wide range of applications. In addition, the device is capable of synchronizing to a 1 pulse-per-second (pps) input signal while simultaneously providing a 1 pps output, a feature that has become popular with 4G and LTE technologies. Ultimately, the extreme flexibility of IDT’s new PLL helps customers simplify their bill of materials (BOM) and reduce the total cost of their systems…