Zetta, a provider of cloud storage solutions for enterprises, today announced that it has closed a $10.68 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Sigma Partners and Foundation Capital. Zetta plans [...]
September 14th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedCloud Computing
Why Chrome and not a better Firefox?
Ever since Google’s Chrome web browser has been released, I cannot stop and wonder why Google choose to do it’s own browser versus enhancing Firefox, especially when it has backed the Mozilla foundation for quite sometime. According to wikipedia, the Google , Mozilla partnership contributes about 85% of the revenues for the Mozilla foundation.
The foundation [...]
Amazon Web Services introduces EBS: Elastic Block Store
Amazon is betting heavily on software and services on the cloud. The company today launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can [...]
August 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
MediaTemple’s iPhone AccountCenter: An industry first
(mt) Media Temple, a web hosting and online services company is the industry first to release a free web hosting control panel for all (mt) customers that use iPhones and it is slick.
After seeing an iPhone in action, I was inspired. So I posed a challenge to create a mobile AccountCenter and the team worked [...]
August 9th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedUpdate: Disappointing IPO for Rackspace, down 10% on open
Rackspace Hosting Inc. saw its shares fall on its first day of trading Friday morning following an initial public offering that priced at the low end of the company’s expectations. The company operates the Mosso Cloud Computing Infrastructure.
The debut was a disappointment for the first venture-backed company to brave the IPO waters in nearly five [...]
Rackspace IPO prices at lower end of the price range
UPDATE: Rackspace Hosting falls on IPO debut
Rackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX), the company behind the Mosso cloud computing platform, today announced the initial public offering of 15,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $12.50 per share at the lower end of the expected price range of $12 - $16 a share. The [...]
Pig in the clouds!
HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments.
The HP, Intel and Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed will provide a globally [...]
Parascale nets $11.37 million in Series A
Parascale, a cloud storage company for web 2.0 rich media content, has announced that it has closed an $11.37 million Series A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Parascale plans to use the funding for product development and marketing initiatives in preparation for the launch of Parascale Cloud [...]
