Monthly Archive: March 2009

Mar
30

Our View on the Open Cloud Manifesto

The Open Cloud Manifesto was released today to a flurry of comment and criticism from the media, including GigaOm, eWeek, ZDnet, and others. This comes after last week’s post from Microsoft, complaining about the closed nature of the manifesto’s development. Although few can argue with any of the broad principles in the document (including us), …

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Mar
16

Skytap Receives $7 Million Series B Round of Funding

Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based virtual lab solutions, today announced it completed a $7 million Series B round of funding from Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group and Washington Research Foundation. The funds will be used to bolster the company’s product development, sales and marketing efforts. See the full press release here.

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Mar
03

CloudCamp Brings Together Seattle’s Cloud Innovators

We attended CloudCamp Seattle on Saturday and participated in the first CloudCamp unconference to visit the emerald city. Seattle is home to an impressive list of cloud computing companies (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google’s seattle campus), as well as a growing list of emerging startups (Decho, Skytap, and a plethora of SaaS companies). This makes Seattle …

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