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What’s Special About The Joyent Funding Round?

by sourya on February 27, 2012

in Amazon, Cloud Computing, Computing, News, SaaS, Startups, Stocks, Storage, Technology

What’s Special about the Joyent Funding Round? There is nothing special about small companies or startups getting funding, other than the obvious vindication of the opportunities in cloud computing. In fact, such funding stories have been the focus of several articles here (See the latest one: Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 8). However, there’s something different, and in my opinion, special, about the $85 million round of funding closed by San Francisco cloud services provider Joyent (http://www.joyent.com/). What’s special about this round of external financing is not the amount (which, by prevailing standards, is quite impressive) or the

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Cloud Apps of the Week

by Jeff Norman on January 6, 2012

in Cloud Computing, Companies, Computing, Security, Startups, Storage, Technology

Cloud Apps of the Week You’ve successfully rung in 2012, but if you’re in the United States — particularly on the East Coast — a nasty cold spell has put an abrupt end to the celebration. Thankfully, three new applications should warm your spirits once more, with their clever grasp on how the cloud can prove useful in 2012. Oftentimes, cloud applications seem more concerned with demonstrating impressive “cloud-ness” instead of creating an ingenious spin on a specific niche. A new woodworking app, called “dustCut” from Online Softworx, dodges this trend. It keeps the emphasis on the lumber without feeling

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3PAR Helps Smarsh Harness the Scalability of the Cloud

by cloudtweaks on July 7, 2010

in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Host, Invest, Press Release, SaaS, Security, Stocks, Storage, Technology, Venture Capital

Industry’s Fastest-Growing Email Archiving Provider Gains Efficiency and Flexibility for Its Tier 1 SaaS Deployment REMONT, CA, Jul 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — 3PAR(R) (PAR 9.10, -0.30, -3.19%) , the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today that Smarsh, the managed service leader in secure, innovative, and reliable email archiving solutions, has deployed 3PAR Utility Storage within its secure cloud infrastructure. Smarsh deployed a highly scalable 3PAR InServ(R) T-Class Storage Server to support its Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) database, and a second T-Class array to handle backup and recovery. As a result, the hosted service provider reduced its database

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