Cloud Computing: Workspot Raises $1.9M
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Workspot launched a new bring-your-own-device solution for the mobile workplace. Workspot has created both a SaaS service for IT administrators, Workspot Control, and a mobile application for IPads called Workspot. Workspot also announced that it has raised $1.9 million in seed funding from Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Redpoint, and angel investors including Peter Wagner and Gaurav Garg.
Workspot is a single app and secure mobile workplace that helps end-users and IT departments conveniently separate work-related content and personal information stored on the device. End-users can flip between applications inside Workspot with ease, in a single, contained workspace including Intranet, SharePoint, Email, and Microsoft Office documents. Collaboration with co-workers is possible through applications that reside behind their organization’s firewall making full use of SaaS applications…
IaaS player SoftLayer and distributed software company Basho have come together in order to offer the latter’s NoSQL Riak database as a service operating on SoftLayer’s cloud. The companies claim the collaboration will make the open source database more accessible and flexible, as it is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. Marc Jones, vice president of product innovation at SoftLayer told Cloud Pro: “The overall goal is to launch a product on the SoftLayer platform that is very easy for customers to get started with their Riak and Riak enterprise deployments.
TeleProviders Inc., a premier communications and technology solutions provider, expands its converged cloud and data center offerings with several technology providers in the cloud and data services sector. TeleProviders is able to help clients co-source products and services that include colocation, managed hosting and infrastructure as a service (IaaS.
Mowbly, which recently launched and is here at Disrupt NY, takes a counter approach to mobile development platform environments. Instead of a steady stream of apps, Mowbly uses a single-app approach that it offers through its mobile platform as a service (PaaS), said Co-Founder Vignesh Swaminathan. Mowbly offers third-party app support. But it only processes the data by calling the third party app’s API. Mowbly delivers the data but not the user experience of the app.
McAfee is giving a boost to its Security Connected portfolio with the addition of identity and access management capabilities. They were previously developed and sold by Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), but now McAfee is bringing them to market as McAfee Cloud Single Sign On and McAfee One Time Password.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of the new AWS Certification Program with the first of several exams that will made available in 2013. With the accelerating adoption of cloud computing and the AWS Cloud around the world, organizations are increasingly seeking mechanisms to identify candidates and consultants with demonstrated knowledge of AWS best practices. The new AWS Certification Program helps to fill this need to recognize IT professionals that possess the skills and technical knowledge necessary for building and maintaining applications and services on the AWS Cloud. To learn more about the AWS Certification Program, visit 
BlueKai, the only end-to-end SaaS solution for data management, analysis and activation, today announced a partnership with IBM, in which BlueKai will integrate with IBM Digital Data Exchange (DDX), part of the company’s Digital Analytics suite. Effective immediately, the partnership connects customers using IBM’s tag management solution with BlueKai’s DMP data intelligence across offline, online and mobile channels. IBM DDX is a tag management solution that simplifies the management of IBM and third-party page tags, enabling clients to deploy and maintain website pages with minimal support from IT.