Monday December 23, 2024

Attachments.me Goes Automatic, Adds Box To Its Cloud Storage Partners

Attachments.me, the startup that promises to take the pain out of searching through email attachments, is gradually ramping up the services it’s offering to users: from today, it is launching an option to automatically file your attachments to specific folders in the cloud; and it has also expanded support to include Box, which now joins […]

Data Storage Company Nexenta Scores $21 Million In Series C Funding

Data storage solutions provider Nexenta this morning announced that it has secured $21 million in Series C funding in a round led by new investor Menlo Ventures and joined by Sierra Ventures and Razor’s Edge Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners and TransLink Capital. Nexenta claims its open source storage software solutions help enterprises avoid vendor lock-in […]

Accel Leads $52.5M Round In Cloud-Based Data Storage And Backup Company Code 42

Code 42 Software, a Minnesota-based online backup company for consumers, businesses and the enterprise, has raised $52.5 million in funding led by Accel Partners with participation from Split Rock Partners. This is the first major investment from Accel’s recently announced Big Data Fund, which is dedicated to funding infrastructure and application companies in “Big Data.” […]

Virident Grabs $21 Million From Intel Capital, Cisco, Sequoia And More For Enterprise Storage Solutions

Virident, a company that offers flash-based storage solutions for enterprise, announced today that it has closed a $21 million series C funding round. The investment was led by Globespan Capital Partners, with strategic investments from Intel Capital, Cisco and contributions from existing investors, Sequoia Capital and Artiman Ventures. The series C round brings Virident to […]

Cloud Storage Startup CX Hires Former RIM CMO; Rolls Out Collaboration Suite, Free Storage

Back in July, a new cloud computing and productivity platform called CX.com raised $5 million from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, bringing the startup’s total funding to $10 million. This is pretty impressive considering the company largely has been flying under the radar since its launch earlier this year. But CX is now […]

Coraid Raises $50 Million For Next-Gen Elastic Data Storage

Coraid, a developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, this morning announced that it has closed a sizable $50 million series C round led by Crosslink Capital. Coraid’s existing investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Azure Capital Partners and affiliates of Silver Lake all participated in the round, as well as new investors including Seagate Technology and […]

Online Storage Service Backblaze Now More Unlimited Than Unlimited

Online store and backup service provider Backblaze this morning released version 2.0 of its flagship product, bumping up the allowed file size for storage and backups up to ‘unlimited’ and bringing other enhancements to the table. The company has actually always provided unlimited storage – and “unthrottled bandwidth” – for five bucks a month, but […]

TwinStrata Raises $8 Million For Cloud Storage, Backup Solutions

TwinStrata, which offers cloud-based data storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $8 million in a Series B round of funding led by Avalon Ventures. The company will use the fresh capital to ramp up sales and marketing efforts for its CloudArray solution. TwinStrata’s CloudArray cloud storage gateway connects […]

Cloud Storage Platform Box.net Raises $81M From Salesforce, SAP At $600M-Plus Valuation

Cloud storage platform Box.net has raised $81 million in Series D funding from strategic investors Salesforce.com and SAP Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners, NEA, and prior investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth participating in the round. The new investment brings Box’s total capital raised to $162 million (the $50 million round we reported […]

Cloud Storage Company Box.net Launches Cross-Platform Sync; Salesforce Chatter Integration And More

At the company’s first customer conference today, cloud storage platform Box.net is revealing a number of new features and products. The company is debuting a cross-platform enterprise sync solution for both Mac and PC devices, additional security features as well as new social capabilities.   For background, Box, which has 7 million users and stores […]