Cloudability, a Portland-based startup that provides financial management tools that allow companies to track and analyze their cloud spending, has raised $24 million in a Series B round led by the Foundry Group. This takes the company’s total amount raised past the $40 million mark.
Amazon today released its earnings statement for the first quarter of the year, and things are looking up, as usual, for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud division. AWS fetched $2.56 billion in revenue for the quarter.
Operating income for the business unit came in at $604 million — more than half of the operating income for all of Amazon this quarter! — as a result of $1.85 billion in operating expenses. The AWS operating income is down sequentially from $687 million.
Oracle today disclosed that it has acquired Ravello Systems, a company with tools for running enterprise workloads in public cloud environments. Oracle didn’t disclose terms of the deal, but a source familiar with the matter said Oracle is paying $500 million to do the deal.
Oracle is rapidly trying to accelerate its cloud business and take on the likes of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Today’s acquisition could be strategically important as Oracle rushes to stand up its cloud infrastructure for compute, storage, and networking workloads.
Los dos gigantes se disparan en Bolsa tras presentar unos resultados apuntalados por el éxito de su negocio de informática en la nube, que puede generarles 16.000 millones de ingresos este año.
La venta a empresas de servicios informáticos accesibles en Internet en un modo de pago por uso (cloud computing), se ha revelado como un nuevo filón de negocio para Amazon y Microsoft, las dos compañías que han tomado la delantera. Según los analistas, estos dos gigantes podrían alcanzar este año unos ingresos conjuntos en cloud de 18.000 millones de dólares, 16.300 millones de euros.
Today EMC announced that it’s acquiring Virtustream, a venture-backed public cloud and cloud software provider, for $1.2 billion. Virtustream isn’t the biggest name in the cloud market, but the important thing here is the considerable upside for EMC, which has long sold expensive storage gear to enterprises and has been slow to jump on the cloud wave.
The transition to a digitized business environment is happening with remarkable speed. Companies are gathering and analyzing huge amounts of data, transforming their manufacturing processes with digital fabrication and other technologies, and incorporating the Internet of Things in their products and processes. The companies at the forefront of these technology industry trends have already gained a competitive edge over their slower rivals.
Joyent, a provider of public-cloud infrastructure and software that companies can use to create clouds in their own data centers, is announcing today that it’s brought in $15 million in new funding.
The deal shows investors believe there’s still room for cloud providers other than the big three — Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — even as they become more and more appealing to companies with new features and price cuts. But the new funding also points to the wisdom of the low-level technology Joyent has long used to run multiple applications efficiently on each physical server.
One possible future for communication is to create a quantum version of the internet that will have the ability, among other things, to send information with perfect security. This network will use entangled photons to transmit information from one locations to another without it passing through the space in between, hence the security.
Photons can only travel hundred kilometres or so through optical fibres before being absorbed. Conventional optical networks get around this with repeaters that boost the optical signal as it passes by.
Swedish telecom Ericsson demonstrated a big commitment to the cloud business today, by announcing that it’s taken a majority stake in Apcera, a startup with software for running applications in clouds or companies’ data centers.
The deal gives new cloud capabilities to Ericsson but lets Apcera remain a standalone company, according to a statement on the news.
On the surface, the deal puts Ericsson in the same camp as other telecommunications companies that have shelled out to enhance their cloud offerings. CenturyLink, NTT, and Verizon, among others, have already made cloud moves. Now Ericsson has set itself up to gain cloud mindshare.
New startup vArmour is joining the mix to solve a persistent data center security problem: How do enterprises keep information safe as file storage increasingly becomes virtual?
There was a time when companies stored sensitive files on specific hardware — that is no longer the case. Cloud technology has made it so that files aren’t stored on one particular hard drive or tower anymore. Instead they move fluidly from server to server. That technology makes data centers more efficient and IT more flexible, but it also compromises security software, which relies on files staying in one place.
“Security likes to be able to lock your stuff in place,” says Jon Oltsik, senior principle analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
