
Ravello Systems Announcing General Availability of Its Cloud Application Hypervisor
The public cloud market is young, despite AWS’ growth and current worth of a few billion dollars. Most of the enterprise’s IT resources are still hosted on the organizational premise supported by VMware hypervisor. The enterprise hybrid challenge is hidden in the cloud utility model’s basic notion of hardware as software, whereas legacy application topology, […]

MadeiraCloud Raises $1.5M From Sequoia Capital To Help Cloud Users Better Deploy Their Cloud Diagrams
MadeiraCloud, a new cloud management player, today announced it has raised Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. MadeiraCloud’s unique cloud management service enables drag and drop tools to allow users quickly and easily design, provision, manage and monitor cloud infrastructure resources. The company also announced full support for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Virtual Private Cloud […]

Making Sense of Color after Meraki, and Going Big
I had a draft post I’d written weeks ago entitled something like “Color: Just an Enormously Large Seed Round Gone Horribly Wrong”, or something like that. Which I guess it was — $41,000,000 to build an iOS app with no revenue that no one ever used. But it wasn’t that interesting, that post/story, so I […]