Enterprise cloud management software provider Abiquo has raised roughly $10 million in Series B funding led by Balderton Capital, with existing investors Nauta Capital and Eurecan participating. Bernard Liautaud, a Partner at Balderton Capital and well known for being the founder and former CEO of Business Objects, will join the Abiquo Board of Directors. Abiquo […]
Posted on November 30th, 2010 by admin
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CIOs and IT managers who are responsible for systems should follow these best practices as they develop and maintain systems. These aren’t just rules to follow — they’re rules that should be ingrained in your daily IT life. They’re core concepts to many in the IT field. Always have a way to get back to […]
Posted on November 30th, 2010 by admin
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CloudBees, a Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners with participation from individual investors, including JBoss founder Marc Fleury and JBoss/HP/Bluestone vet Bob Bickel. The round is said to be only the first in a multi-stage investment to provide CloudBees with the resources to build out […]
Posted on November 29th, 2010 by admin
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Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com this morning announced the appointment of JP Rangaswami, an internationally acclaimed thought leader in the tech industry, to the newly created position of Chief Scientist. Rangaswami, an expert in enterprise software, had recently stepped down from a similar position at BT Group, after nearly five years with the company. Tweet […]
Posted on November 25th, 2010 by admin
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Scale Computing, a provider of midmarket clustered storage solutions, this morning announced it has secured $17 million in Series C funding in a round led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from Northgate Capital and existing investors (including Benchmark Capital). This latest round of funding brings the total raised for the company to $31 million. […]
Posted on November 24th, 2010 by admin
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Attachmate Corporation has agreed to acquire technology giant Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo. The $6.10 per share consideration represents a 9% premium to the business software maker’s closing […]
Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be rolling out Apps interactivity with iGoogle, YouTube, Blogger, Picasa, and other products in the Google family. Today the search giant is making over 60 of its homegrown products available for a deep integration for all types of Google Apps accounts. Services like Google Voice, Reader, Analytics […]
Posted on November 19th, 2010 by admin
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Expensify, the startup helps take the endless headaches out of expense reports, is launching a new version of its platform today. What makes Expensify so easy is that it can pull in your transaction records and automatically categorize them. All you need to do is register your credit cards with the platform, and the site […]
Posted on November 18th, 2010 by admin
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A new research commissioned by Fujitsu has shown high success rates for early cloud adopters, some of who chalked up to 40 percent cost savings and reported that they either achieved or exceeded their predicted savings. The research was conducted among 100 chief information officers and IT managers from small and medium businesses as well […]
Posted on November 18th, 2010 by admin
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Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. All of Coraid’s Series A ($10 million) backers, including Allegis Capital and Azure Capital Partners, participated in this round. The reason why it’s interesting that Menlo Ventures led this […]
Posted on November 16th, 2010 by admin
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