6fusion raises $ 7 million for a cloud infrastructure management software

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6fusion, a provider of infrastructure management software and cloud services, this morning announced that it raised $ 7 million in series b round of financing led by Grotech ventures.

Previous Baker Intersouth partners also participated in the round.

The company provides a platform for managing end-to-end cloud to global pressure, making clouds, both public and private companies paid utilities pay for use.

6fusion been developed an algorithm called a cube dimension, the distribution of workload, which he said standardizes the quantitative assessment of supply and demand for computing resources.

The company's management platform in UC6 cloud federates private data center and cloud operators of third party, providing a single console to enable organizations to manage and optimize the meter, hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Lawson DeVries Grotech ventures joins 6fusion's Board.

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Andreessen Horowitz leads $ 15 M round in GoodData cloud Business Intelligence platform

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GoodData startup company that provides a platform for cloud-based business intelligence (BI) raised $ 15 million in financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with existing investors General Catalyst partners, fidelity growth partners and Windcrest, also contributes to the round. This investment brings total financing GoodData to $ 28.5 million. The company also added two new members of the Board of Directors: John O'Farrell, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and Dave Girouard, President of Google Enterprise. In addition it marks Andreessen Horowitz fourth GoodData investments (including two seed investment and 2010).

Founded by serial entrepreneur Roman Stanek, GoodData offers cloud-based data analytics solution that is more economically efficient than similar products from IBM, SAP and Oracle. The company mainly GoodData can connect product in their own cloud-based SaaS (i.e. Salesforce, Zendesk) and then access to operational dashboards, advanced reporting and data storage.

In addition to the just structuring data, GoodData also gives the company best practices and actionable insights based on data, add a layer of intelligence. The company has a number of Analytics apps for SaaS products, including the Zendesk, Twilio, Pardot and get satisfaction, which offers these companies additional reporting. The company currently offers 20 application and will expand more SaaS platform with new funding. The company plans to add another 30 applications by the end of the year.

Stanek tells us that GoodData is disrupting BI $ 25 billion and storage space, because the earlier data intelligence used to be a complex process. But as more companies rely on cloud applications to business functions such as sales, customer service and much more, access and understanding of this huge amount of data on the basis of the cloud became simplified process that took minutes, he explains.

And GoodData sacrificed seeing traction in the enterprise space. Over 2500 companies, including Software AG, Time Warner Cable, Capgemini and Pandora media, relied on data intelligence, GoodData products. The company saw a 500% increase in the overall use of the platform in the 2011 alone and currently manages more than 6500 customers data Mark. And more than 2 million records were executed on a platform of BI cloud GoodData in July this year.

Add the main Enterprise Google, Girouard, the Council is quite a significant vote of confidence to launch. Girouard, who will advise the company to develop products, services and sales cloud, said: "GoodData GoodData is an amazing opportunity to build a huge business. Cloud computing and Analytics is a killer and GoodData provides unique and promising approach to lead in this market. "

O'Farrell Andreessen Horowitz also bullish on GoodData, tells us that he sees run to become the company billions of dollars. He explains that because the mass market continued to move to the cloud, there's still so much more potential for cloud-based business as GoodData that extract valuable information from the data cloud. "This is what business will spend a lot of money on," said O'Farrell.

O'Farrell also made an interesting point about the business intelligence space as a whole. He said there was a low barrier of entry in the space, but GoodData goes beyond just providing charts and data visualization tools offers a powerful platform, actually gives companies actionable insight from all of their business data. This, he said, creates a high barrier to entry, and be able help GoodData.

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EZOfficeInventory SMB allows you to easily track and manage the assets of the company (the cloud)

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Office list control systems: not exactly the world's sexiest software to be sure. Nevertheless, without inventory and asset management systems, many businesses likely will work similar pace DMV. Currently, small and medium-sized businesses have no shortage of funds to choose from when selecting a software system for tracking asset management and inventory; However, most of these settings requires working tirelessly with Excel or using a desktop product like TurboSystems data or, in the village of FoxFales, to name a few. If the company has more than a few dozen staff, however, Excel, and desktop solutions can be a pain in the ass.

Ali Sayeed, a former employee of Sun Microsystems (before the company was acquired by Oracle) and his team and software geeks, said that they were tired of having to deal with repeated instances of inventory of obsolete and mismanagement in the modern tracking solutions. Saeed said that he and his team collectively has worked with many different companies that, for example, actually keep property lists, but specific information related to who has what (as track records check outs) are often completely missing or worse deprecated — not to speak of the fact that the wrong assets often are assigned the wrong employee even may not work in the company anymore.

As you can imagine, very numerous. To help solve these problems, Syed and his team today are EZOfficeInventory, SaaS-based solution that untraditionally asset management approaches through the delegation model, in which responsibility is shared by the inventory, reducing the load on administrators.

The solution allows the assets of the joint bureaux will be tracked easily through check-in and check-out mechanism for staff members, as well as the activities of news to administrators, allowing them to review and take responsibility only when necessary. Employees can also find free tools that they need to carry out its work and can instantly access the guides and drivers.

Since the EZOfficeInventory live in the cloud solution uses QRCodes as asset tags so that asset with a unique URL in QRCode, employees can quickly provides links to information on capital assets and determine the rightful owner, if something is lost. And employees can do this with a quick scan of the iPhone or Android device with QRCode reader and Web client.

The decision also works to minimize efforts during inspections, as administrators can request photos of an asset or other custom workflows from employees by using a few mouse clicks. EZOffice also allows administrators to view reports, track the checkouts and checkins, total cost of ownership and even serve the story on their assets.

Companies can also change the security settings in their decision that it was compatible with existing business processes and add additional privacy features when needed.

Some readers may find the following images news like Basecamp (a well-known product released by 37Signals, the same company is home to David Heinemeier Hansson, the guy who created the Ruby on Rails). EZOfficeInventory is also implemented in Ruby on Rails, as Saeed said that he is an avid fan "in the Web development platform.

EZOfficeInventory offers a free trial of the two months of its cloud app with packages for more than two users, starting at $ 29 per month.

Asset management system is still in very early stage (seed and start-up) at the moment and there is work to be done on Web design and user interface (and name), but the software itself attacked a major pain for many small and medium-sized enterprises.

At the time of deposit of the responsibility for the management of the assets in the hands of staff (along with, of course, the system of checks and balances) may well be to increase the efficiency and confidence among these employees, it is risky. But Saeed said it was "part of the fun of mergers with Web development and the process of using Web technologies to target the problem of the enterprise. This shot of the status quo, and the Director-General believes that this shot is worth taking, despite the risk.

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