Cloud infrastructure company Joyent has acquired Vancouver-based Layerboom Systems, a startup that provides a software to hosting companies that allows them to build and sell virtual private server clouds. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to a release, the acquisition will allow Joyent to offer expanded cloud infrastructure services to customers by adding […]
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by admin
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Cloud Platform startup Morphlabs has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding led by Global Gateway Investment Group with Frontera Group, CSK Venture Capital, and AO Capital Partners participating. This brings the company’s total funding to $7 million. Morph Labs offers a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that virtualizes the application environment through the use […]
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It is not often that a company’s first round of venture funding comes in at $60 million and eight years after it was founded with $10,000 worth of credit card debt. But Atlassian, which was founded in Sydney, Australia in 2002, is taking its first venture money today from Accel Partners. The company pulled in […]
Posted on July 14th, 2010 by admin
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Accenture, global management and technology consulting firm, has announced the aquisition of Acceria, a company that specializes in providing business processes and methodologies dedicated to the after-sales operations of industrial companies. The companies did not disclose the terms of the agreement. The acquisition includes Acceria's employees and assets which provide innovative business solutions intended to […]
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Security software company GFI Software this morning announced that it has acquired Sunbelt Software, and specifically its VIPRE product suite. GFI says the deal will give them access to Sunbelt’s VIPRE technology, which it intends to merge into its own email security and web security solutions group. Terms of the acquisition remained undisclosed. The assets […]
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Long before he was part of the powerful investing duo behind venture fund Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz was a co-founder and CEO of Opsware (previously known as Loudcloud) a pioneer for cloud computing companies (Opsware was eventually sold to HP in 2007 for $1.6 billion). He’s considered an expert in the cloud so his first […]
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by admin
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Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2, which is a new instance type specifically designed for high-performance computing (HPC) applications and other demanding applications. The new offering is designing for EC2 clients that have complex computation workloads with large amounts of data, such as financial services. The benefit […]
Posted on July 13th, 2010 by admin
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You can secure your wireless network in little time with these 5 simple rules: Secure your access point administration interface: The default passwords of most standard devices are already known to most hackers. So, when you set up your router through the web interface, change the default password and write it down somewhere safe. Stop […]
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During its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft introduced (a limited production release of) the Windows Azure platform appliance, the company’s cloud services platform for deployment in customer and service provider datacenters. The company is touting partnerships with some big-name early adopters of the appliance, namely Dell, eBay, HP and Fujitsu. In his keynote address, Microsoft […]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by admin
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3Crowd, a startup that provides management tools for cloud-based services, is announcing the public availability of its platform, CrowdDirector. Founded by BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, 3Crowd’s management tools give enterprises greater controls over content delivery and other cloud services, enabling them to use multiple services at once. CrowdDirector serves as a content load balancer on […]
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