Acquia Gets Another Round Of Funding: Commercial Open Source Is Still Strong
Acquia (previous CloudAve coverage), the commercial company behind open source Drupal content management software, announced the completion of Series D round of funding worth $15 Million Dollars. This round was funded by Tenaya Capital along with significant follow up participation from their existing investors, Northbridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. Acquia will tap into this [...]
Acquia Uses Gluster Storage For Drupal Gardens SaaS Offering
Acquia, the company behind commercial Drupal offerings, has selected Gluster open source storage platform for their hosting needs. Gluster storage platform offers an easy way to manage data on commodity servers within a single namespace. This is the kind of storage solutions SaaS startups want to have as they offer good performance at a much [...]
Can Companies Succeed Using Open Source Platforms for Enterprise 2.0? (webinar)
On May 20th at 1pm PST I’m hosting a webinar with our partner Acquia and their client Florida Hospital. The webinar is free to attend and is going to cover some best practices and trends around the collaboration. We’ll be looking at the state of E2.0 some benefits and challenges and will also take a [...]
Enterprise 2.0 Trends: Which vendors are in the running?
While doing some Enterprise 2.0 vendor research, we discovered some interesting trends from the E2.0 space. Using Google’s Double-Click Ad Planner, we were able to establish a general picture of the companies’ overall traffic. It’s still very early in the Enterprise 2.0 race, but Yammer appears to be the best horse on a muddy track. [...]
