With the support of Sequoia iPad Inkling updates E-textbook platform with joint study groups and more

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With the support of Sequoia hint, startup that develops innovative digital textbook platform release 2.0 is the technology that comes with increased collaboration and sharing functions.

As we wrote in the past, a hint of technology provides Interactive tutorials that include the ability to cooperate and communicate within the add multimedia content. Start adds another level of online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, videos, quizzes and even social interaction in content. Hint on synchronization technology allows students to collaborate in real time by sharing their notes and highlights with one another. And students can see the comments from his friends and professors of law, together with their own notes.

The latest version of the platform has been established "study group" in tectbooks, where students can ask questions and add comments anywhere in a book with classmates, teachers and others who are reading the same books, using the hint. Hint also added "expert" notes in the book that allows students to access their observations and comments.
All notes, highlights, bookmarks, and links created by students is now being saved to a designated Notepad. And search results within an allusion to the platform from Wikipedia or Google directly in your book, which can also be saved in Notepad.

Inkling is currently taking 50 educational institutions requiring e-textbook platform. And the company announced financing and partnership from some of the best educational publishers, including Pearson and McGraw Hill.

Of course e tutorial space competitive with Chegg, Kno, Amazon and many others all competing in the arena. But Inkling founder and Executive Director Matt Macinnis not too worried. Although he acknowledged that some competitors have more content, he believed that hint at the platform the most interactive, dealing with technology on the market. Currently, Macinnis is the iPad as an allusion to the platform of choice, but will eventually be expanded to other devices.

The company also attracts big venture money, a few weeks ago, hint announced 17 million Australian dollars, start the overall financing of $ mln., including its seeds, and a series of shots, as well as the influx of millions of dollars from publishers.

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Sequoia and Nexus to invest $ 12 million in laptop backup startup Druva

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Druva, creator of data protection solutions for SMEs, announced this morning that he raised $ 12 million in series b funding. Nexus venture partners led the round with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. Jishnu Bhattacharjee Nexus venture partners will be joining Druva Board of Directors of these investments, joining Sequoia Capital's Managing Director, Shailendra Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer Druva and Yoram Novick, CEO and founder of Topio.

Series b round adds up to $ 5 million Druva raised in April 2010, bringing total investment to the North of the $ 17 million. Start a new capital infusion will be used to expand sales across North America, Europe and Asia.

Founded in 2007, the company based on the Mountain view company now has more than 800 clients, protecting more than 300000 portable computers and devices worldwide and is beginning to thrive in the marketplace, in which she faced competition from the likes of EMC Avamar, Symantec and autonomy.

Druva inSync software (its flagship product) allows companies to use laptops, smartphones and tablets, automated backups, protection of corporate data in both the Office and remote users. The software also allows enterprises to retrieve data and do one click Restore any file or volume backup from your browser or iOS and Android devices, in accordance with the command Druva.

Start value that it provides backups over LAN, WAN and VPN network and makes backups more efficient way to de-duplicating data — in other words, storing only one copy of files and data uploaded by network users. This deduplikacii allows Druva in backups for ranking at speeds 10 times its competitors and allows companies to save 90% on bandwidth and storage, while maintaining a high level of accuracy for Outlook and Office. Druva software also gives businesses the opportunity to store their data locally in the cloud or through data centers connected to the web.

According to Sheila Childs, Vice President of research at Gartner, business organizations are beginning to become aware of inadequate protection of important data on corporate laptops and mobile devices. Mobile workers are an integral part of the success of many enterprises and will hold the data that would be almost impossible to recover, if their corporate device were stolen or damaged, she said, a solution like this offer Druva are essential for SMES looking to protect sensitive data.

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