Posts Tagged ‘cloud server’

Eucalyptus Raises $20 Million for Its Hybrid Cloud

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

From Anthony Ha at VentureBeat:

Eucalyptus Systems, a start-up offering open source tools to give companies the benefits of cloud computing on their own infrastructure, announced that it has raised $20 million in a second round of financing.

The company uses technology developed by the University of California, Santa Barbara. With Eucalyptus, companies can run applications in an internal environment using cloud technology while avoiding the normal concerns of security and being locked into another company’s platform. Those internal environments can also be connected to public environments like Amazon.com’s, creating a “hybrid cloud.” Read More »

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Windows Phone 7 Cloud Hosting

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Microsoft has announced that the people who worked on those devices will join the Windows Phone 7 team, incorporating Kin concepts and technology into Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS. Despite up-and-down reviews, Kin did have some redeeming qualities. Even though feature creep is a dangerous thing, here are four things that should make the leap from Kin to Windows Phone 7:

Kin Studio

The name would have to change, obviously, but automatic syncing of photos and video to a cloud server for easy PC access was one of Kin’s most praised features. Windows Phone 7 will reach a larger audience than Kin, which could pose a challenge in terms of server space, but if Microsoft can offer Windows Live SkyDrive and Windows Live Sync for PC users, surely it can make room for mobile.

Full Windows Phone 7 Cloud Hosting Story

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Money Raining on Cloud Startups

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Not many people know about cloud hosting.  But the money flowing into the emerging sector is beginning to turn heads, with Eucalyptus Systems the latest beneficiary. Funding companies are poring a lot of money into companies with cloud hosting in their scopes.

The Calififornia startup has landed $20 million in a second round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates, one of the most venerable names in the venture capital business. NEA is joining existing investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, which also participated in the latest infusion–which brings the total committed to Eucalyptus so far to $25.5 million.

Not that it really needed more money at the moment, says Marten Mickos, a veteran software entrepreneur that helped elevate the profile of Eucalyptus by joining the company as CEO last March. “We have two thirds of our previous round still untouched,” he says. But interest among investors and potential customers in the cloud computing concept is strong at the moment, and the company realized that building a substantial company would eventually take more money.

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