Zentyal, the Zaragoza, Spain-based maker of the Zentyal Linux small business server, has raised $1 million in Series A funding from freshly financed and Europe-focused venture capital firm Open Ocean Capital. Zentyal develops a server solution that combines cloud-based services to make network management easy and secure for small and medium-sized businesses. Basically, it’s an [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by admin
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After being acquired by Citrix Systems in July for more than $200 million, Cloud.com’s CloudStack cloud management framework is being open-sourced. The software currently supports over 60-large scale production clouds, including those run by GoDaddy, GreenQloud, KT, Nokia, Tata Communications and Zynga. With the release, CloudStack has also added support for additional hypervisors and support for [...]
Posted on August 30th, 2011 by admin
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Second generation platform as a service DotCloud is announcing its $10 million dollar Series A today, after a recent rockstar-filled seed round which included Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. Investors in the most recent round include Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Along with the financing, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, Apple engineering manager Marc Varstaen, Benchmark’s Peter Fenton and [...]
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Today at a press event in San Francisco, Intel and a group of 70 companies announced an alliance to build a system of open standards for cloud computing. Part of the Cloud 2015 initiative, The Open Data Center Alliance makes it easier for customers to deploy cloud computing solutions, as it focuses on interoperability, flexibility [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2010 by admin
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Data center automation company Puppet Labs has acquired an open source project called The Marionette Collective. The project, also known as the Mcollective, is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. Mcollective’s primary use is to programmatically execute actions on clusters of servers. Puppet Labs says that the technology will help [...]
Posted on October 8th, 2010 by admin
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Clickable, the ad management platform that lets search marketers measure and track the performance of their online marketing campaigns across different search engines and advertising networks, is partnering with American Express OPEN to launch SearchManager, a product that allows small business owners to streamline search advertising and marketing. American Express is essentially white-labeling Clickable’s platform [...]
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 by admin
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Facebook took over the Gillmor Gang this week like it threatens to do the Web. Danny Sullivan represented those who fear the unadulterated market power of the social giant. He pressed FriendFeed co-founder and now Facebook platform chief Bret Taylor on the Pandora and Microsoft deals, which push user data to “partners” without user opt [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2010 by admin
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Talend, a global provider of open source data solutions, this morning announced it has raised another $8 million in Series D financing. Their previous funding round was closed in January 2009, when the company raised $12 million. Existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners all chipped in again, bringing Talend’s total of [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by admin
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MuleSoft, a startup that develops open-source technology integration services, has raised $12 million in Series C funding from SAP Ventures with Bay Partners, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating. This funding brings the startup’s total funding to nearly $30 million. Founded in 2006, MuleSoft, provides software, support, and services [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2010 by admin
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JumpBox is an under-the-radar server software management company that helps IT departments deploy open source technologies. JumpBox essentially makes collaborative technologies easier to use by making them easier to install on servers. Today, JumpBox is launching a new way to run open source server applications, allowing IT administrators to treat server applications collectively as a [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2010 by admin
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