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VC Funding Is Dead? Tell That To Eight Newly Wealthy SaaS Startups

Mary Hayes Weier — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:49:52 -0500

Venture capital funding is at a historic low, yet at least eight software startups announced VC funding in the past two weeks for a total of more than $60 million. Their products are all very different, but they have one thing in common: they're delivered in a software-as-a-service model.

VMware Feels Growing Pains Of Being A $1 Billion Firm

Charles Babcock — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:53:20 -0500

In a relatively brief period, VMware has gone from a small company to 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion. At VMworld in San Francisco, I got a sense of how that rapid growth leads to growing pains. For one thing, some of your best customers prefer your little competitors to you.

Startup Helps IT Bill For VM Use

Andrew Conry-Murray — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:03:41 -0500

Apptio's newest service tackles chargebacks for server virtualization.

Hybrid Cloud Storage Startup Lands $6 Million

Andrew Conry-Murray — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:54:22 -0500

Egnyte, which blends local and online storage for SMBs, pulled in millions in VC investment today.

Venture Capitalists Putting More Money Into Startups

Andrew Conry-Murray — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:47:01 -0500

Investments rose 15 percent in the second quarter of 2009, with IT earning the most VC dollars. But funding remains significantly low compared to previous years.

Firewall for Virtual Machines Adds Speed and an IDS

Andrew Conry-Murray — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:33:27 -0500

Startup Altor Networks launches a new version of its VM firewall that's built for speed and includes an intrusion detection engine from Sourcefire.

Startup Puts Logs In the Cloud for Search and Storage

Andrew Conry-Murray — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:54:16 -0500

Paglo announced a new service that lets IT send and store logs in the cloud. Logs can be searched and analyzed on demand.

Paglo Monitors Amazon EC2

Andrew Conry-Murray — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:55:17 -0500

SaaS startup Paglo has added monitoring for Amazon's cloud to its IT search and management service.

Eli Lilly, NASA Build Eucalyptus Clouds

John Foley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:39:35 -0500

Eucalyptus Systems, the startup behind the open source cloud computing software, has identified its first two customers: NASA and Eli Lilly. That's an impressive start for a company that's barely three months old.

Can Startups Survive Recession Without VC Money?

Michael Singer — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:37 -0500

Little known fact: Apple and Microsoft were both started without venture capital and both started in a recession. So what's your fledgling company need to do to navigate the current economic climate?

The Many Costs Of Cloud Computing

John Foley — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:20:25 -0500

McKinsey & Co. has come under fire for suggesting that cloud computing may be more expensive than running servers inside your own data center. I have more bad news for would-be cloud users--the costs may be even higher than McKinsey suggests.

Cloud Vendor Cassatt Faces The End

John Foley — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:50:57 -0500

Cassatt, a six-year-old enterprise software company, is "close to the end" of operations, according to Forbes. Cassatt had positioned its data center management software as a platform for private clouds, but the startup's steep licensing fees are apparently more than IT departments are willing to spend in this economy.

Wireless, Life Sciences Winners In VC Deals

Michael Singer — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:54:59 -0500

Venture capital funding may have dropped overall in the first quarter of this year, but not all sectors suffered as seen by the multimillion dollar deals granted to the likes of Meru, Beceem, Stokes, Lavante, iScience, and Ausra.

How To Vet Technology Startups

John Foley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:40:15 -0500

The release of InformationWeek's Startup 50 raises the old question: Should IT departments do business with startups at all? The unequivocal answer is yes, and here's my advice on how to pick the right ones.

Symantec Acquires Startup 50 Company

Andrew Conry-Murray — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:59:56 -0500

Mi5 Networks, which makes a Web security appliance, will be integrated into Symantec's product line later this year.

Introducing InformationWeek's Startup 50

Andrew Conry-Murray — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:41:36 -0500

Innovation is alive and well, as demonstrated by the companies on our first-ever list of 50 compelling young technology companies

Additional Funding Vital In VC Deals

Michael Singer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:41:10 -0500

Second and third rounds of financing for startups often come at critical times, as three different IT software firms found out this week.

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Want VC Funding? Throw Out Your Business Plan

Michael Singer — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:09:19 -0500

It sounds counterintuitive, but you're better off investing in your idea, building your social network, and attracting potential customers than spending hours refining how a plan looks on paper.

VC Deals: Google's Singh Cassidy, JiWire

Michael Singer — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:16:03 -0500

Google's loss is Accel Partners' gain as Sukhinder Singh Cassidy has joined the venture capital firm as its new CEO-in-Residence. Does the position include access to a world-class cafeteria?

VC Deals: Fusion-io, DoubleTwist, Socialcast

Michael Singer — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:30:23 -0500

Several Silicon Valley startups are celebrating fresh infusions of cash this week as the venture capital economy may be showing signs of a comeback.

Kosmix Aggregation Tool Is Beautiful Branding

Jonathan Salem Baskin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:27:44 -0500

Three cheers to the PR firm or freelancer behind the publicity for Kosmix, which is a startup company offering an alternative approach to aggregating Internet search results. One recent story asked that it not get compared to Google, and then compared it.

Ambitious Startup Wants To Manage All Your Unstructured Data

Andrew Conry-Murray — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:40:38 -0500

Digital Reef swings for the data management fences by indexing and classifying all unstructured data in the enterprise. Top applications include e-discovery and storage management.

Vote For Your Favorite Startup

Andrew Conry-Murray — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:27:41 -0500

This April, InformationWeek will unveil the Startup 50, the top tech companies shaking up IT. You can help decide which startups make the cut by voting for the most innovative, disruptive companies.

IT Search Engine Adds Netflow

Andrew Conry-Murray — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:45:15 -0500

Startup Paglo, which offers SaaS-based IT management based on search, now collects Netflow data to help customers monitor bandwidth usage by users, applications and protocols.

How To Get Started With Storage-As-A-Service

John Foley — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:04:34 -0500

Pay-as-you-go online storage services are a flexible way to deal with exploding data volume. For 25 cents per month, you can rent a gigabyte of storage from Nirvanix. But is that any way to buy enterprise storage?