Amazon unveils Reserved Instant Marketplace, an exchange for cloud services

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Amazon Web Services today introduced a new offering called Reserved Instance Marketplace, an online exchange of sorts where customers can sell their excess Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Reserved Instances to other businesses and organizations. Amazon explains in a press release: The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives customers the flexibility to sell the remainder of their Reserved Instances as… Read More…

Ignition bankrolls Ratify to help corporations view network data in one spot

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Ratify, a Bellevue startup that’s developing technologies to allow corporations to view network data in one place, has landed $2 million in venture funding from Ignition Partners and Jafco Ventures, according to a SEC filing. The company is led by former Microsoft Vice President Kurt Kolb, who previously led the software giant’s worldwide OEM licensing, anti-piracy… Read More…

Seattle cloud startup Hubspan acquired by Liason Technologies

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In a deal of undisclosed size, Seattle-based Hubspan has been acquired by Liaison Technologies. Atlanta-based Liason is a provider of cloud integration and data management services. “This is an outstanding opportunity for customers, partners and our collective teams,” said Hubspan CEO Trisha Gross. “Hubspan’s technologies, services and expertise will strengthen and extend Liaison solutions, creating significant leadership… Read More…

Cloud telephony startup Infratel lands $3M, adds ‘click-to-call’ to Facebook pages

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Infratel, a Seattle startup that provides cloud-based telephony services to small businesses, has raised $3 million in startup financing. Investors in the round include Prostor Capital and Runa Capital. Among other things, Infratel’s Facebook app allows users of the social networking service to add a “call-me-now” button to the page. That, the company say, can more… Read More…

Fast-growing storage upstart Box unpacks $125 million in funding

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Box, the file sharing and data storage startup founded seven years ago by Mercer Island High School grads Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, has reeled in a whopping $125 million venture round led by General Atlantic. The financing follows an $81 million deal that the Los Altos, California company raised last fall, building a substantial arsenal… Read More…

Down goes Twitter: The pulse of the planet not beating this morning

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Normally, for these sorts of service outages, the first place we consult is Twitter. After all, the site is the “pulse of the planet” right? Well, the pulse was lost this morning. Twitter is experiencing a serious outage that’s impacting users of the popular social networking service throughout the world. The Associated Press reports that… Read More…

Cloudability raises $8.7M to ID spikes in cloud spending

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The Foundry Group has led an $8.7 million series A financing round in Cloudability, a Portland upstart that helps companies get a better handle on how much they are spending across various cloud computing services. Launched last November, the free service is now used by over 3,000 people, including customers such as OpenSesame, Slideshare and… Read More…

Amazon issues statement following last weekend’s outage

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Amazon Web Services offered a few more details on the outage that struck its Northern Virginia data center over the weekend, an outage that knocked popular services such as Netflix and Instagram offline. Here’s the statement that Amazon issued Monday: Severe thunderstorms caused us to lose primary and backup generator power to a portion of… Read More…

Electrical storms rattle Amazon Web Services, taking Netflix, Instagram and others offline

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For the second time this month, Amazon Web Services is suffering after a power outage at its datacenter in northern Virginia. “We can confirm that a large number of instances in a single Availability Zone have lost power due to electrical storms in the area. We are actively working to restore power,” Amazon.com wrote in… Read More…

Twilio partners with Microsoft’s Windows Azure

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Twillio, the cloud-based communications upstart led by former Amazon.com employee Jeff Lawson, has inked a partnership that could bring its communications technologies to thousands of developers building technologies through Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azure. Developers who participate in the program will receive a credit of 1,000 free text messages or inbound voice minutes. The Twilio API… Read More…