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Cloud Maker Secures Funding

  • GigaOm, Monday, August 23, 2010 1:45 PM
Cloud operating system provider Nimbula has raised $15 million in funding from Accel Partners, reports GigaOm. Founded by the same team that developed Amazon EC2, Nimbula delivers a cloud OS that combines the scalability and operational efficiency that "we've grown accustomed to with the public cloud, but with the control that enterprises require for within their own data centers," writes the blog.

"While many commentators are scornful about private clouds, claiming that the concept doesn't meet their test for 'the true cloud,' more moderate commentators, myself included, would contend that so long as it's scalable and abstracts management away from the user, it constitutes a cloud product," notes GigaOm's Ben Kepes. Nimbula was founded by Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, the execs who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service. To date, Accel has funded the likes of AdMob, Facebook and comScore while Sequoia Capital, an existing investor that also took part in this round, backed big names Yahoo, Google and YouTube. Nimbula's product, Director, seeks to manage both on-premise and off-premise resources.

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