Divergent Ventures racks up a ‘big exit’ with sale of FlashSoft

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Seattle venture capital firm Divergent Ventures is celebrating today as SanDisk Corp. announced the purchase of FlashSoft, a Sunnyvale, Calif. maker of software caching products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but we are hearing that it was a good outcome for Divergent. It also marks the second notable purchase of a Divergent portfolio… Read More…

Amazon.com announces price cuts on S3 storage service

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Amazon Web Services is cutting prices … again. The company just announced a series of price reductions related to its S3 storage service, with Jeff Barr of AWS explaining the rationale in a blog post. S3, which stands for Simple Storage Service, is used by companies to store everything from Web applications to digital content…. Read More…

Amazon.com launches new storage gateway service to securely backup data

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Amazon Web Services is rolling out a yet another new offering today called AWS Gateway Storage, a service that the company said will provide businesses with an easy way to securely upload data to the cloud. “With the AWS Storage Gateway, we’re providing businesses yet another way to easily take advantage of AWS’s secure, scalable and… Read More…

Mozy rolls out Stash, another place to access files on the go

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There’s no shortage of online storage and synchronization services on the market, from Box.net to Dropbox to Apple’s iCloud to Seattle’s very own TappIn (acquired last month by GlobalScape). Now, here comes another player, and boy does it have deep pockets. Seattle-based Mozy, the unit of storage giant EMC, today is announcing the public availability of… Read More…

Cloud storage startup Symform scores $2 million

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Symform has raised an additional $2 million in funding from WestRiver Capital, OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners, bringing total cash raised in the Seattle cloud storage startup to $9 million. The money will be used for business development, marketing and sales. The company said that its user base grew by more than 800 percent over the… Read More…

Ignition Partners bankrolls flash storage startup WhipTail

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Ignition Partners is continuing its transformation into a national venture capital firm. The latest example is WhipTail, a Whippany, New Jersey company that today announced a second round of venture capital financing from RRE Ventures, Spring Mountain Capital and Ignition. The size of the investment was not disclosed. But, as part of the deal, Ignition’s… Read More…

Tunebox: A new way to listen to music from your Dropbox account

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Seattle developer Phil Kast was rock climbing in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder two months ago when he slipped off a ledge, falling 15 feet and breaking his tibia. But while the broken shinbone set Kast back — and made life tough in terms of walking and getting on the bus — it also allowed him… Read More…

Isilon adding 200 jobs as it settles into Pioneer Square HQ

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Isilon Systems, getting comfortable in its new digs in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, said today that it plans to add 200 more workers locally over the next 15 months. The company has 430 people in Seattle currently, and 800 companywide. The data storage company says the growth will represent a 75 percent increase in employment… Read More…

Cloud storage provider Symform adds $1M, plans HQ move in Seattle

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Symform, which made some waves earlier this week when it announced a new referral program in which customers can earn up to 200GB of free cloud storage, has pulled in an additional $1 million in venture capital financing. The cash infusion follows the appointment of Matthew Schiltz — formerly of Powerit, DocuSign, General Software and CourtLink… Read More…

Rappin’ for TappIn to make files available wherever you wander

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There’s no shortage of services that allow consumers to access files in the cloud, from Dropbox to Box.net to SugarSync to Google Docs. But even with all of the competition and clutter in the market, Seattle’s TappIn believes it can carve a niche. The company, which until today was known as HomePipe Networks, has added a… Read More…