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Joyent Secures $85M in Venture Funding to Fuel Global Growth and Continued Innovation

Jan.23, 2012 in Cloud Computing, SaaS, SaaS News & Updates Leave a Comment

San Francisco—January 23, 2012—Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced it has completed an $85 million funding round, with European group Weather Investment II providing the majority of the round. Weather II was advised by Accelero Capital, an investment and management group. Both Weather II and Accelero focus on telecommunication and related media and technology companies that clearly hold promise in the rapidly and profoundly changing telecom and enterprise markets worldwide.

Telefónica Digital, the growth arm of global telecom leader Telefónica, is also participating as a strategic investor. Cloud-based services are a key focus area for Telefónica’s new Digital unit, and Joyent’s technology expertise in this area will help Telefónica enhance its product offering.

Existing Joyent investors include El Dorado Ventures, Epic Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global.

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Ever Extra Announced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Employee Incentive Management Product

Jan.16, 2012 in Cloud Computing, SaaS, SaaS News & Updates Leave a Comment

New York, N.Y. – David Haley, Senior Director of Marketing of Ever Extra (www.everextra.com), a new online incentive program has announced the launch of its software-as-a-service website available at everextra.com.  The new site focuses on employee incentive management, but also includes tools for employee recognition, employee engagement surveys, a virtual suggestion box, as well as countless other features and tools.
The website offers two methods for creating an account, free for up to 5 employees, or a Pro account that is free for 30 days.

Sign up is easy and you can quickly take advantage of some of the new features:

-          Increase Employee Engagement

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4PSA’s VoipNow Cloud OnDemand Receives 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award

Jan.13, 2012 in Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SaaS News & Updates Leave a Comment

Orlando, Florida – January 13, 2012 – 4PSA, a technology leader in Cloud Communication Software, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VoipNow Cloud OnDemand as a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award.
“We are very excited that VoipNow Cloud OnDemand was selected to receive this prestigious award for innovation”, stated Mike Ross, 4PSA’s President. “We are pleased that our solution has evolved to a point where it brings such clear benefits for providers and businesses alike, enabling them to easily offer Unified Communications services to a continuously growing number of users whilst eliminating the need to select, plan, manage and maintain complex infrastructures.”

Mr. Ross added.

VoipNow Cloud OnDemand combines a high performance infrastructure with the award-winning VoipNow Professional Unified Communications software suite in order to provide an instant, cost effective, scalable, multitenant offering to service providers and businesses worldwide. “VoipNow Cloud OnDemand delivers an extensive number of features in the Cloud, like VoIP, video calling, fax, conferencing, instant messaging, auto-attendant/IVR, full-featured billing, auto-provisioning for phones and much more.” Mr. Ross also added.

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