Archive for September, 2010

Cloudant Cloud Database Platform

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

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Cloudant is a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework.  We have talked about it before but it has officially launched today after three years of hard work and a lot of VC money.  Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB framework but also provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and support.

Cloudant focuses on scalability, flexibility, and high availability. Its method of data storage is ideal in any situation in which data is generated in a distributed way, such as with sensor networks, web servers, and mobile device service, in essence “small companies with big data.” Cloudant was founded by MIT Physics PhDs Alan Hoffman, Adam Kocoloski, and Mike Miller and recently received a seed round of $1 million dollars from Avalon Ventures.

The company currently has has 1,300 users and 10 paying customers and hopes to be the leading provider of CloudDB moving forward. Says founder Mike Miller about future plans, “There will be some huge changes in what web stacks will look like and we want to remain poised to be the cloud service that underlies those technologies.”

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4delite Banners In The Cloud

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

4delite has announced the launch of its cloud server based rich media publishing platform for advertisers who want to create powerful, yet unified, ad creative for cross-media purposes that mobile and web experiences provide.

For those of you who have not used 4delite, you can create banners for your website using their system.  It’s a fast, fun, and very efficient way to make banners for your website. The cloud-based platform lets you drag-and-drop your own design for ad creative as well as embed whatever tracking URLs you require and takes only a matter of minutes.

The first public demo of the platform was held at a SF New Tech event in late August 2010 in San Francisco. 4delite was founded by Silicon Valley veterans Eugene Walden, Andy Laursen and Mary Ray, The company has developed a scalable publishing platform that is future-proofed for whatever emerges (or re-emerges) as the standard format for mobile and online advertising.

4delite is an angel-funded start-up, founded by a trio of Silicon Valley veterans: Eugene Walden, Andy Laursen and Mary Ray. Based in San Francisco, the company offers a cloud-based rich media publishing platform — the first self-serve solution for advertisers who want to create exportable rich media ads that work across mobile and web platforms, including the iPhone and iPad. Its board of advisors include: Mike Herring, Roger Lang, Will Price, Steve Cutcliffe and Jon Staenberg.

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HP Buys 3Par for $2.4 billion

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

According to the release, the 3PAR board of directors has determined that HP’s revised proposal constitutes a “Superior Proposal” (as that term is defined in 3PAR’s merger agreement with Dell). Accordingly, 3PAR notified Dell of its intention to terminate its merger agreement with Dell immediately following the expiration of the three business day period contemplated by, and the satisfaction of the other conditions set forth in, its merger agreement with Dell in order to enter into a merger agreement with HP on the terms set forth in HP’s revised acquisition proposal.

This latest offer more than doubles Dell’s original bid for 3PAR, which was high to begin with. 3PAR provides a virtualized utility storage platform that enables customers to significant drive down cloud computing infrastructure, storage and associated management costs.

It looks like this bidding war is over, and it’s about time… I think I’m going to go grab me some cereal!

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