There's a sliver of silver inside the cloud: Hefty rebates are persuading otherwise hesitant shoppers that they really can afford a new car or truck.
That, after all, is one huge advantage of Amazon's cloud idea: moving those hefty music files to the Internet frees up space on your computers and phones.
Spotinst, the startup that helps companies purchase and manage excess cloud infrastructure capacity, announced a hefty $35 million Series B today led by Highland Capital.
HashiCorp, the company that has made hay developing open-source tools for managing cloud infrastructure, obviously has a pretty hefty commercial business going too.
Pivotal, an ambitious creation of the data storage giant EMC and its hefty affiliate VMware, on Wednesday said it would make cloud-based industrial software applications faster than anyone has before, and announced it had the means to do so — a $105 million investment from General Electric.
Levie is best known for dropping out of USC to start his cloud storage company Box, which just raised a hefty $125 million at a $1.2 billion valuation.
Add a hefty dose of conservative politics and it is no surprise that clouds of nostalgia hung around today's first annual Roast and Ride a barbecue- and Harley-themed patriotic festival organised by Iowa's freshman senator, Joni Ernst, as a salute to military veterans and speechifying contest for 2016 presidential hopefuls.
Zscaler, a provider of cloud security services to small businesses, corporates and service providers, has raised a hefty $38 million round led by an unnamed investor, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
MessageBird, a cloud communications platform that counts publicly listed Twilio as a competitor, has raised a hefty $60 million in Series A funding.
Hefty fines seem inevitable.
