Salesforce.com backs cloud solutions company Appirio world domination plans

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Solution provider Appirio cloud this morning announced that it will expand at the international level to better serve its customers in the markets of Europe and Asia.

The expansion, which the company says, will be implemented through a combination of organic and inorganic growth, funded by the strategic investment from two existing investors: VC firm GGV capital and partners of Salesforce.com.

Appirio works with organizations, such as Facebook, NYU, Thomson Reuters and Home Depot to integrate and extend cloud applications and platforms like Google, Salesforce.com and workday. This month, Appirio celebrates its 5 year anniversary, and the company claims to have over 1 million people in the cloud since its inception.

The first International Office was opened in Tokyo, Japan, at the end of the 2008 year.

Earlier this year announced the acquisition of Appirio Infowelders, full-service Salesforce.com implementation consultancy firm (VMG).

One of the company's high-profile supporters, Sequoia Capital, apparently were not involved in the latest funding round of Appirio, which is not disclosed in the company.

Appirio, a cloud solution provider offers products and professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud computing. With more than 170 corporate clients is Appirio ...

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Acquia Drupal expands product suite with purchases Cyrve, growing venture solutions

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Acquia, a commercial open source software company that provides products, services and technical support for Drupal social publishing system, expanding its product portfolio with the acquisition of Cyrve, Drupal migration service providers and growing venture solutions provider of Drupal.

Conditions for the acquisition were not disclosed.

Acquia today introduces transaction Acquia migration service and security service of Acquia for Drupal site owners of the enterprise.

The first includes a set of software modules and best practices to help organizations migrate content from social software systems such as WordPress or SharePoint and Office obsolete Drupal Web content.

For more perspective on the acquisition of Cyrve, Moshe Weitzman check co-founder blog.

The security service of Acquia practice includes tools and services for the Drupal site security assessments and implement security policies based on best practices.

Acquia, which was co-founded by Dries Buytaert, original creator and project lead of Drupal, an open source project, recently raised $ 15 million planned $ 20 million shares of the company's total financing round, more than $ 38 million.

Acquia supporters include North Bridge venture partners, Sigma partners, Tenaya capital, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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Cloud solutions Appistry lands $ 12 million in financing

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Appistry, St. Louis, Missouri-based developer solutions cloud raises $ 12 million in series d financing round led by eXome equity.
Stuart Mill also participated in the capital and other private and existing investors.
Tour, which includes debt term pushes total capital raised more than $ 34 million for Appistry.
CloudIQ cloud Appistry's flagship platform architectures for the problems of "big data". Decision, which is designed to support demanding and analytical applications used by enterprises, mainly to customers in Appistry quickly turn raw data intelligence.
Appistry customers include FedEx, GeoEye, State Street Bank, Lockheed Martin and several government agencies of the United States.

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