Box launches sleek Windows Phone app, partners with Qualcomm for pre-installs

July 24, 2012 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has launched an app for Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform and partnered with chip-maker Qualcomm in hopes of getting more pre-installs on phones and tablets, the company announced Tuesday.

Box lets you store content in the …

AppDirect grabs $8.5M to power cloud app stores, partners with Rackspace

July 18, 2012 7:52 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud marketplace platform AppDirect has raised $8.5 million in its first round of funding.

AppDirect’s platform has made it possible for companies like Deutsche Telekom, Bell Canada, Appcelerator, and new partner Rackspace to launch cloud service marketplaces. High-profile apps, including …

The Onion spoofs ‘the cloud’ — and it’s hysterical

July 17, 2012 3:29 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Satirical news organization The Onion has set its sights on “that cloud thing” with a new video spoof that makes fun of Hewlett-Packard’s cloud push and the incessant jargon that gets thrown around when talking about the cloud and technology …

Hybrid cloud storage biz Egnyte snags $16M from Google Ventures, KPCB, & Polaris

July 17, 2012 4:30 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Enterprise cloud storage startup Egnyte has raised $16 million from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Polaris Venture Partners in its third round of funding, the company announced Tuesday.

Egnyte helps businesses with various hybrid cloud storage solutions …

Zadara Storage raises $7M to speed up Amazon’s & Rackspace’s clouds (exclusive)

July 16, 2012 4:04 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud startup Zadara Storage has completed a $7 million first round of funding, cash that should help get the word out about its service that gives you much more control over the public cloud.

As we’ve written before, Zadara can …

Cloud communications biz Twilio adds global SMS and multi-language support

July 12, 2012 6:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud communications startup Twilio has upped its worldwide footprint with much-welcome support for global SMS and dozens of new languages, the company announced Thursday.

Twilio helps many small- and medium-sized businesses by providing telephony infrastructure via the cloud. Developers working …

TechStars alum Cloudability snags $8.7M from Foundry to track your cloud costs

July 12, 2012 4:30 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud-cost tracking startup and TechStars Cloud alum Cloudability has raised $8.7 million in its first round of funding, the company announced Thursday morning.

Clouability offers cloud-based software that ties into various IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services and tells you how …

Dropbox doubles size of Pro accounts for free, intros 500GB plan

July 10, 2012 10:55 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

In the face of growing competition, cloud storage startup Dropbox has doubled the size of its 50GB and 100GB Pro plans at no additional cost and debuted a new 500GB plan for those who need a ton of space, the …

Salesforce suffers service outage, North America and Europe affected

June 28, 2012 10:31 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud enterprise services company Salesforce was hit with a serious outage this morning due to a fault in its “storage tier,” a problem that appears to be mostly resolved.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff (pictured) has been a fierce advocate for …

Dropbox kills torrent startup Boxopus over piracy potential

June 26, 2012 1:31 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Just days after its beta launch, torrent-to-Dropbox startup Boxopus has been banned from Dropbox‘s API over concerns that it would encourage copyright abuse, TorrentFreak reports.

Boxopus’ purpose was to use Dropbox’s API to anonymously add torrent downloads to a Dropbox …

Pantheon nabs $5M from Foundry, others for smarter Drupal site development

June 26, 2012 5:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Drupal-based content management startup Pantheon has raised a $5 million first round of funding from Foundry Group and a few others to help move enterprise website management to the cloud, the company announced today.

As we’ve written before, Pantheon wants …

Google Ventures-backed CliQr launches to move your business apps to the cloud

June 25, 2012 9:01 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

App migration and management startup CliQr Technologies has come out of stealth mode with a goal of helping enterprises move their apps to public and private clouds, the company announced today.

One of the more pressing problems for enterprises that …

Box brings its handy OneCloud sync solution to Android

June 25, 2012 9:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has added much-welcome Android support to its OneCloud solution that keeps files synced even when using third-party apps, the company announced today.

The OneCloud solution helps solve one of the most annoying problems with mobile …

Pirate’s dream come true: Boxopus pushes torrents to your Dropbox account

June 24, 2012 8:39 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

In popular culture, the giant octopus has always been a notorious enemy to pirates. But when it comes to new service Boxopus, Internet pirates might have a new best friend that will help them store illegally obtained media in their …

Bitcasa’s ‘infinite’ cloud storage wins $7M from Pelion, Horizons, others

June 20, 2012 4:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud storage startup Bitcasa has nabbed $7 million in its first round of funding to realize its vision of giving consumers “infinite storage” for all of their devices for $10 a month.

Bitcasa is an exciting cloud startup because unlike …

Box opens international HQ in London to woo European businesses

June 19, 2012 12:00 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Enterprise cloud storage startup Box has opened its first international headquarters in London and laid out plans for a major European expansion, the company announced today.

Box has more than 11 million users across 120,000 businesses, with penetration in 82 …

Dropbox adds automated photo uploads to iOS app, may be killing public folders

June 15, 2012 7:25 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Cloud storage startup Dropbox has upgraded its iOS app with several new features, including automatic photo and video uploads. Rumor has it the service will also be killing its public folders feature.

Dropbox has rolled out several new features ever …

Cloud competition is go: Amazon Web Services lowers support prices

June 14, 2012 2:56 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Amazon Web Services has lowered its premium tier prices for cloud infrastructure support and expanded its level of free support for all AWS users, the company announced today.

Amazon is by far the largest provider of cloud infrastructure on the …

Autonomy explains just how large ‘big data’ is (infographic)

June 11, 2012 7:58 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

With so much talk about “big data” lately and data-focused companies like 10gen and Delphix recently grabbing large funding rounds, it’s a topic that won’t be going away any time soon. But what exactly is it and is there an …

Microsoft’s Azure platform gets frisky with Linux

June 6, 2012 2:33 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform has been given a major update that will offer deep support to Linux-based developers, the company announced today in a blog post.

The update will bring Windows Azure to a new level of versatility in what …