Intel Capital and Others Put $10 Million In Virtualization Infrastructure Startup Virtustream

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Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Virtualization startup Virtustream has raised $10 million in Series B round financing from Intel Capital, Columbia Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners, and TDFunds. This brings the company’s total funding to $59 million.

Virtustream provides strategy, integration and managed services utilizing virtualization technologies, and xStream, the company’s cloud provisioning platform. xStream allows enterprise customer to access highly elastic cloud computing resources at a consumption-based pricing model, similar to Amazon EC2.

Virtustream plans to used the new funding to productize xStream into a distributable end “cloud O/S” software product. Virtustream will also use the funding for branding, marketing and advertising and to expand market presence in San Francisco and London.

Company: Virtustream
Website: virtustream.com
Launch Date: 2008
Funding: $50.4M

Virtustream, Inc. is a cloud innovator offering enterprise-class cloud solutions for enterprises, governments and service providers. Virtustream simplifies moving complex IT to the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid – delivering the full economic and business benefits of the cloud and virtualization. Virtustream offers xStream, a secure, high performance cloud solution, providing high availability, highly secure enterprise-class clouds, with application level SLAs. xStream is available both as a software solution for existing data centers/clouds and also as...

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