Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps and Salesforce.com partner, has raised $40 million and acquired CloudTrigger. The VAR Guy’s sister site, Talkin’ Cloud, has all the details plus an interview with Cloud Sherpas CEO David Northington.
Cloud Sherpas has raised $40 million and made its eighth acquisition to expand its cloud brokerage service.
The funding, lead by Greenspring Associates, brings Cloud Sherpas’ total to $62.6 million. Existing investors Columbia Capital and Delta-V Capital joined in the new round.
Amid all the mainstream hype about Windows 8, Surface tablets and Apple iPads, the Google Chromebook strategy quietly marches forward. If you check a local Best Buy retail story, you might even see Chromebooks (cloud-centric laptops) on display near the Apple section. But how are Chromebooks attracting channel partners and corporate customers?
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: MarketOpen Source software company, Acquia, continues its global expansion, opening its Asia Pacific regional headquarters office in Sydney, at the same time it has extended the reach of its cloud product line by adding two new cloud deployment options in Amazon Web Services’ Singapore and newly announced Australian data centres.
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Cloud ServicesVirtualisation and cloud infrastructure vendor, VMware, has opened its new, national Australian headquarters in Sydney, more than seven years after the company first started operating in Australia.
The inaugural students of the US Founder Institute’s Cloud Booster program have graduated from the Australian program launched in Sydney earlier this year.
{loadposition peter}More than 100 candidates applied for the 15 week program in Sydney, hosted at Ninefold, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and technology incubator, Blue Chilli, with 34 accepted to the program.Ninefold, Australia’s larg
Switzerland-based cloud computing company, Nivio, has entered the Australian market offering small businesses access to Microsoft Office applications in the cloud, via any Java capable browser on a Windows, Mac or Linux PC.
A NSW Government department will be the anchor tenant for a new cloud based service that Sydney based ac3 is now offering. Peep under the covers though and much of the technology is being provided by Dimension Data as part of its new suite of cloud computer offerings which was officially released today.
Editor’s note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. He is also on the boards of UnitedLex, Teliris, and Greensmith Energy Mgmt., and is an angel investor in Cloud Sherpas, BetterCloud, iYogi and others. Follow him on Twitter @rjrogers87.
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