Archive for December, 2011

Cloud Database Startup Xeround Raises $9.3M

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Database virtualization startup Xeround has raised $9.3 million in Series C funding Benchmark Capital, Giza Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. This would mean that the startup has raised over $30 Million to days.

Xeround offers a cloud database-as-a-service for MySQL-based applications. Currently the service is offered for EC2 MySQL databases, as well as Rackspace-MySQL and Heroku-MySQL applications.

Xeround’s cloud database allows service providers, ISVs and customers to run their applications in the cloud and automatically scale up or down, all while ensuring availability in the event of failure or schema changes.

The startup promises auto-scaling, elastic-usage, high availability and multi-tenancy, while guaranteeing continuous service during schema changes, resource modifications and the scaling process. Xeround’s service currently has hundreds of paying customers.

Xeround, which competes with Salesforce’s Database.com, will use the funding to expand its cloud database solution as well as further marketing and sales operations.  You should be expected to see some pretty amazing cloud database offerings in the next 1-3 years out of these guys.  Their offerings are pretty sweet.

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Web Hosting Is A Safe Heaven For Investors

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Recently, the web hosting companies have announced an important growth within this sector. For this reason, many investors are reconsidering their position with regard to the investments that they can make in this field. The most important thing that relates to these investments is the security aspect, which tends to become a priority for any businesses that operate within this niche. The reality is that only the latest security features and applications can provide the right platforms which can sustain the developments that are about to conquer the web hosting niche.

The new technologies are literally helping the web hosting companies to secure thousands of websites in only one day. This thing assists the companies to accelerate their position within the secure cloud hosting. Therefore, web security is considered a critical issue, which can increase the importance of specific services. For this reason, most web hosting companies are trying to deliver their customers the best possible solutions in a truly efficient public cloud environment.

The actual investments come after a rapid product innovation and customer growth. Moreover, the web hosting companies ensure compliant public cloud innovations that attract numerous customer and investors. The capital that most investors bring along is meant for providing the right support for a continuous development of the new web hosting technologies and security platforms. Therefore, the web hosting companies are finally able to deliver the best possible cloud solutions.

Furthermore, the service providers are about to enter a new era that relates to cloud innovation which respond to the core needs of common business productivity. It seems that these companies have gained momentum two years back, when the cyber attacks were very numerous. At that time, many companies have developed some really strong security features, which are still able to protect the web hosting services against different current hack attempts. Since then, the web hosting companies have registered an important growth of their businesses, which are propelled even more by the latest investments.

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Top Reasons Why Most Web Hosting Services Are Restructuring Their Managements

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Most web hosting providers are restructuring their platforms by incorporating new features, including great aesthetics and user-friendly functions. The restructured services provide some new sections which are able to enhance the existing capabilities and improve the overall user experience. Due to the new clean and interactive services, the latest designs are capable to bring the web hosting companies to the forefront of this industry segment.

The new features include different functions, which are meant to improve all the capabilities of the web hosting providers. The companies that are restructuring their services include single domain hosting, VPS hosting, business class hosting, clustered solutions and managed dedicated servers. Moreover, some of these companies intend to select a customer every month to showcase the services they provide. The information about the restructured managements will include different details with regard to the functions of these services.

The competition among these companies is quite acerb especially that most of them are trying to deliver the newest technologies. Most companies already provide interactive hosting, which is not only clean and user-friendly but also very complex. Therefore, the customers can benefit from a series of services that ensure the best possible integration features, which deliver an incredible efficiency. Additionally, most companies are not only restructuring their services but also their staff.

By getting new employees who are able to sustain the latest web hosting concepts, the companies can defeat their competitors and finally get the top positions within this sector. However, in order to succeed all these, the web hosting companies must choose the best employees, who actually are the real valuable assets of these companies. Due to all these changes, the top web hosting companies are finally able to provide the most professional and cost-effective web hosting and cloud solutions, which can attract more and more clients.

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