Database Management Systems underpin an enormous range of information collection, management and distribution systems by providing the underlying storage and retrieval methods and systems. There are many flavours of database technology including: hierarchical, network, relational, nested, object-oriented, free-form and proprietary systems.
Elastra, which provides software for configuring, deploying and managing complete application systems in public and private compute clouds, has raised $12 million in Series B financing. The funding was led by Bay Partners, with new participation from Amazon.com and continued participation from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Elastra will use the money to accelerate customer growth and enhance its software for public and private cloud computing.
Reiko Uchida, 09 August 2008
Vodafone has acquired the Danish wireless address book company Zyb, for €31.5($49m). Vodafone's stated intent is to harness Zyb's social networking capability for its mobile platform, but in the short term the real value is likely to come from Zyb's ability to back-up and synchronise mobile...
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Michelle Wong, 17 May 2008
Ning, the social networks player has quietly raised another $60m from private institutions, led by Allen & Company, to fund its expansion plans. The investment values Ning at around $500m. Ning aims to compete with the large social sites such as MySpace and Facebook by appealing to users who...
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Reiko Uchida, 24 April 2008
Cisco and VMware have announced that they are collaborating to deliver joint data center solutions designed to improve the scalability and operational control of virtual environments.
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Michelle Wong, 18 September 2008
BT is finally moving back into the online classifieds space by acquiring the classifieds website site Ufindus for £20m in cash. BT lost its monopoly over 192 directory inquiries when Oftel deregulated the UK telecoms market in 2000, enabling new brands to combine new online and phone listings.
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Reiko Uchida, 15 July 2008