CloudBees Buzzes With $10.5 Million Cloud PaaS Funding Bump
The cloud computing funding festivities continued this week with Boston-based cloud startup CloudBees raking in $10.5 million in Series B financing to pump up its cloud Platform-as-a-Service.
The latest funding round for the 16-month-old startup, which was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with Matrix Partners participating, adds to the $4 million CloudBees snagged in Series A funding.
Cloud computing holds the key to cutting carbon emissions
Cloud computing is being lauded for its environmental and financial benefits in a new study released by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) today, which predicts that companies that embrace cloud computing can realise US$12.3bn in energy savings and 85.7m metric tonnes of CO2 savings annually by 2020…
DataChambers Introduces Cloud Hosting Service
Today DataChambers is introducing a new Cloud Hosting service that will enable companies to replace or extend their existing server network without making a costly capital investment. A secure, high-performance computing infrastructure will be accessible over the Internet – hosted, maintained and managed by DataChambers.
Companies using the service can use Cloud Hosting to replace their existing servers, to augment their existing computing capabilities or to provide redundant processing capacity in the event of an in-house network outage. In each instance they will have the ability to respond to changing information technology needs, without sacrificing performance or paying for excess, unused capacity…
Dolphin Content Archive Service for Cloud 2.0 Achieves SAP Certification
Dolphin announced its Content Archive Service (CAS) for Cloud 2.0 has achieved SAP certification as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The solution has been proven to integrate with SAP® solutions, providing users access to cloud services as a repository to the SAP ArchiveLink® software. The cloud solution is SAP-certified for archived SAP data and documents and does not require any new on-premise infrastructure…
Amazon’s Cloud Business Is Growing Like Crazy
Amazon’s cloud business is growing like crazy, and could hit $1 billion in revenue next year according to analysts, Reuters reports. Right now Amazon Web Services, its cloud computing unit, is small enough that Amazon doesn’t report its revenue, but according to estimates, it generated $500 million in revenue last year and will do $750 million this year–a 50% growth rate, which is impressive for such a large unit. If Amazon really hits these milestones it will be a big event not just for the company, but for the cloud computing industry in general.
Cover Story: VMware’s Maritz Aims To Run The Table In Cloud
Spooks Get Their Own Cloud
Huddle figures it’s the first cloud-based collaboration and content management service to offer an eyes-only private collaboration service to government customers with highly classified clearance that they can use to access and share their very private data stores.
It seems that the only way spooks on both sides of the pond can collaborate is still through couriers, the all-purpose drop box, phone calls and e-mail. Huddle means to bring them in out of the cold but its solution, which resembles Microsoft’s SharePoint, isn’t just meant for three-letter agencies like the CIA and MI6.
Platform Computing to Host Webinar on How to Select a Private Cloud Solution
Platform Computing, the leading independent cloud management software provider, today announced it will be hosting a webinar, entitled "Private Cloud Selection Best Practices: How to Select a Private Cloud Solution," on Thursday, Aug. 4.
Dr. Songnian Zhou, CEO of Platform Computing, will be joined by James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, to discuss strategies and best practices that mid- and large-sized enterprises must consider when choosing a private cloud vendor. Mr. Staten will also discuss findings from his recent report, "Market Overview: Private Cloud Solutions" (May 2011)…
Translattice Shakes Up Distributed Computing
One of the basic assumptions about cloud computing is that services outages are bad. An application that goes down for one reason or another is an expensive problem when it happens. But it’s also an expensive problem for which to plan ahead, usually involving buying a lot of redundant hardware and software that kicks in when the primary systems fail. It’s not an attractive notion, but then again neither is downtime…
4 reasons why cloud computing is efficient
There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing has significant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with which I am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSP Environment & Energy for Salesforce.com, and it showed per-transaction emissions reductions averaging 95 percent for companies that shift to using the cloud…