San Francisco-based company Cloudscaling is the latest small company focused on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform to score some meaningful venture capital. The company has raised $10 million in Series B funding from part...
San Francisco-based company Cloudscaling is the latest small company focused on the open source OpenStack cloud computing platform to score some meaningful venture capital. The company has raised $10 million in Series B funding from partners including Trinity Ventures, Juniper Networks and Seagate. That's some pretty solid backing, and Cloudscaling--which provides infrastructure-as-a-service support--is just the latest Northern California company to get solid funding. Cloudscaling was founded in 2006 and is one of a handful of small companies competing with Amazon Web Services and Rackspace to be “the leader in elastic cloud infrastructure.” Its platform is the Open Cloud System, an OpenStack-centric software framework. According to the company's documentation for Open Cloud System: "Open Cloud System 2.5 is a complete Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution powered by OpenStack technology. OCS is designed to meet the requirements of next-generation dynamic applications such as web/mobile apps, SaaS/PaaS deployments and Big Data implementations. OCS delivers the agility, performance and economic benefits of leading public cloud providers, but deployable on your infrastructure and under your control." Other Northern California companies are getting solid venture backing with their OpenStack strategies as well. Mirantis, which is well-known to numerous technology titans as a consulting firm that knows its way around OpenStack, has received steady funding from Dell, Intel and WestSummit. The small firm has an impressive list of customers working with it on OpenStack projects, including AT&T, PayPal and The Gap. “This financing round caps a tremendous year of momentum for the company,” Cloudscaling CEO Michael Grant said in a statement, following the company's funding announcement. “That momentum affirms the voice of the market, clearly stating that customers want more than OpenStack. They want an on-premise, OpenStack-based private or public cloud turnkey system solution that delivers architectural and behavioral fidelity with major public clouds like Amazon Web Services. Our Open Cloud System product delivers on that need to enable hybrid cloud application deployments that span private and public cloud services.” Related Activities Comments (0) Post a Comment Ask a Question Related Blog Posts Dell Changes Up OpenStack Cloud Plans (post comment) Rackspace Creates Bridges Between .NET and OpenStack Platforms (post comment) Project Savanna, Bridging Hadoop and OpenStack, Moves Forward (post comment)