Salesforce.com backs cloud solutions company Appirio world domination plans

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Solution provider Appirio cloud this morning announced that it will expand at the international level to better serve its customers in the markets of Europe and Asia.

The expansion, which the company says, will be implemented through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, funded by the strategic investment from two existing investors: VC firm GGV capital and partners of Salesforce.com.

Appirio works with organizations, such as Facebook, NYU, Thomson Reuters and Home Depot to integrate and extend cloud applications and platforms like Google, Salesforce.com and workday. This month, Appirio celebrates its 5 year anniversary, and the company claims to have over 1 million people in the cloud since its inception.

The first International Office was opened in Tokyo, Japan, at the end of the 2008 year.

Earlier this year announced the acquisition of Appirio Infowelders, full-service Salesforce.com implementation consultancy firm (VMG).

One of the company's high-profile supporters, Sequoia Capital, apparently were not involved in the latest funding round of Appirio, which is not disclosed in the company.

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6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $ 15 M round in GoodData cloud Business Intelligence platform

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GoodData startup company that provides a platform for cloud-based business intelligence (BI) raised $ 15 million in financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst partners, fidelity growth partners and Windcrest, also contributes to the round. This investment brings total financing GoodData to $ 28.5 million. The company also added two new members of the Board of Directors: John O'Farrell, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise. In addition it marks Andreessen Horowitz fourth GoodData investments (including two seed investment and 2010).

Founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek, GoodData offers cloud-based data analytics solution that is more economically efficient than similar products from IBM, SAP and Oracle. The company mainly GoodData can connect product in their own cloud-based SaaS (i.e. Salesforce, Zendesk) and then access to operational dashboards, advanced reporting and data storage.

In addition to the just structuring data, GoodData also gives the company best practices and actionable insights based on data, add a layer of intelligence. The company has a number of Analytics apps for SaaS products, including the Zendesk, Twilio, Pardot and get satisfaction, which offers these companies additional reporting. The company currently offers 20 application and will expand more SaaS platform with new funding. The company plans to add another 30 applications by the end of the year.

Stanek tells us that GoodData is disrupting BI $ 25 billion and storage space, because the earlier data intelligence used to be a complex process. But as more companies rely on cloud applications to business functions such as sales, customer service and much more, access and understanding of this huge amount of data on the basis of the cloud became simplified process that took minutes, he explains.

And GoodData sacrificed seeing traction in the enterprise space. Over 2500 companies, including Software AG, Time Warner Cable, Capgemini and Pandora media, relied on data intelligence, GoodData products. The company saw a 500% increase in the overall use of the platform in the 2011 alone and currently manages more than 6500 customers data Mark. And more than 2 million records were executed on a platform of BI cloud GoodData in July this year.

Add the main Enterprise Google, Girouard, the Council is quite a significant vote of confidence to launch. Girouard, who will advise the company to develop products, services and sales cloud, said: "GoodData GoodData is an amazing opportunity to build a huge business. Cloud computing and Analytics is a killer and GoodData provides unique and promising approach to lead in this market. "

O'Farrell Andreessen Horowitz also bullish on GoodData, tells us that he sees run to become the company billions of dollars. He explains that because the mass market continued to move to the cloud, there's still so much more potential for cloud-based business as GoodData that extract valuable information from the data cloud. "This is what business will spend a lot of money on," said O'Farrell.

O'Farrell also made an interesting point about the business intelligence space as a whole. He said there was a low barrier of entry in the space, but GoodData goes beyond just providing charts and data visualization tools offers a powerful platform, actually gives companies actionable insight from all of their business data. This, he said, creates a high barrier to entry, and be able help GoodData.

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SEC Watch: cloud storage startup raises $ 18.6 mln Box.net more

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Box.NET raises $ 18.6 million of the 35 million Australian dollars round according to the SEC filing. We have confirmed this with the company. This brings its total funding to $ 96 million.

A field that has 6 million users and stores 300 million documents — Enterprise cloud storage platform that comes with the collaboration, the functionality of social and mobile. The field has become more than just storage platform Fils and became a full-fledged joint applications, where companies can actually talk about updates to the document, synchronize files remotely and even add features of Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, hurt, and others.

Box has just raised $ 48 million from Andreessen Horowitz and other earlier this year, but the company's CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie tells us that the mighty venture market, high rates of growth of the company and in the cloud, the new zoom round made sense. He said this is a follow-up round with (d) raise earlier this year, and it will attract investors and new as well.

Round was not closed completely and can change, said Levie. In making lists of the current investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson, United States venture partners and venture scale.

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Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, put $ 16. 5 m in Enterprise cloud management application run Okta

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Enterprise cloud app management company Okta was raised to $ 16.5 million in series b funding from Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and gateway. This brings the company's total funding to $ 28 million.

Okta is a cloud management applications. Okta in platform enables companies to have control over their users, applications, and data in the cloud, and outside of the firewall. Startup was founded by Todd McKinnon, former Vice President of the engineers of the most successful cloud-based companies to date, Salesforce.

As Mckinnon said us Okta provides a platform for companies to manage corporate it. He explains that traditional security platform and management are not going to work with the Cloud. When you move to the cloud, IT administrators face the challenge of ensuring and monitoring users and access, simplify adoption and scalability of these applications, and at the same time to ensure that business is optimizing applications in the cloud.

Companies that use cloud-based applications like Salesforce and Google Apps must identity and directory services in the cloud as a place where they can store user profiles and more. Okta gives it managers the ability to maintain one central directory and repeat this for all cloud applications.

The company is releasing a product to the public in January. McKinnon said he initially thought customers would be small and medium-sized businesses, but recently saw acquisitions in large companies using Okta. Companies using Okta include Enterasys Networks, Pandora, T.D.Williamson, AMAG pharmaceuticals, etc. The company says that dramatically ramped up use Okta in on-demand service for authentication over 1 million per month.

And Mckinnon provides more Empire cloud services that "the ability of enterprises to overcome barriers to the adoption of the cloud".

Ben Horowitz, who headed the company's series a round, said about Okta: Okta in original product aims to solve the problem of identity in the cloud. I love this problem, because it is very different in the cloud is local and for new companies, as well. He belivees that the market potential is huge, "because the identity of the cloud market will likely become a cloud management market. Given that these current market combined is between $ 10B and $ 20B (depending on what you count) market is extremely large. "

The new funds will be used for sales and marketing efforts, as well as for ramping up distribution. Within this transaction David Weiden better enterprises will become a consultant to the Board, and Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and co-CEO, Okta will join the Board of Directors.

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Cloud solutions Appistry lands $ 12 million in financing

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Appistry, St. Louis, Missouri-based developer solutions cloud raises $ 12 million in series d financing round led by eXome equity.

Stuart Mill also participated in the capital and other private and existing investors.

Tour, which includes debt term pushes total capital raised more than $ 34 million for Appistry.

CloudIQ cloud Appistry's flagship platform architectures for the problems of "big data". Decision, which is designed to support demanding and analytical applications used by enterprises, mainly to customers in Appistry quickly turn raw data intelligence.

Appistry customers include FedEx, GeoEye, State Street Bank, Lockheed Martin and several government agencies of the United States.

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