Nipendo, a B2B Software as a Service (SaaS) network for managing invoices, has managed to get $8 million in a Series B funding round led by Horizon Ventures. The funding has brought the company’s valuation to $12 million. The company currently has operations in France, India and Israel with its eyes set on the United States based enterprise customers.

Jelastic, next generation Java hosting platform which can run and scale ANY Java & PHP application without the need of code change, in no time, reached a major milestone with the release of its latest version. The new version, Jelastic 1.9, features a flexible new pricing model, FTP support, caching in NGINX and the latest versions of software stacks (including TomEE and MariaDB 10.0.0).

Amazon has cut prices on the year old DynamoDB NoSQL database. The price cut celebrates one year of the service along with a reserved capacity offering to select users who run all instances in a single region and commit to one or up to three years of using the service.

To improve security and increase workforce productivity in the enterprise environment, Centrify Corporation has announced the general availability of Centrify for Mobile 2013 and Centrify for SaaS 2013, a set of integrated capabilities enabled by the Centrify Cloud Services platform that delivers secure, enterprise-class mobility with integrated application Single Sign-on (SSO).

Boston, a server vendor, has announced that it is going to release a platform of servers that will use mobile phone chips that will allow developers to test their software for upcoming ARM based enterprise applications. The company has built its platform using Calxeda ARM based servers. Boston is calling its platform - ARM as a Service (AaaS). The platform will allow developers to test their applications without having to invest in multiple ARM based environments.

Initially businesses were sceptical to adopt Cloud Computing mostly due to security reasons, apart from other concerns. But now they are more or less comfortable with the new technology. Next threat seems to be the rise of smart devices. BYOD being accepted widely accepted across the industry, once again the security concerns are being voiced out. Mobility Management has also become all the more important in the new environment.

In order to provide next-generation scalable, high-performance storage solution, Bitcasa, a start-up has made the official debut of its own cloud-based “infinite drive” system that promises to replace traditional hard drives and backup solutions.

Big Data software developer Vertascale has announced the opening of its private beta for the company’s inaugural product, SimpleSearch. The SimpleSearch software provides powerful real-time query and summary analysis capability for structured and mix-structured data stored in Amazon S3 or the Hadoop File System (HDFS).

If you use a lot of online cloud based storage service, you'd love Jolidrive. Earlier known as Jolicloud, the online service lets you manage all your cloud based storage accounts in a single place. The rebranding has led to a support of more cloud based web services that allow users to access multiple services under a single window. Works pretty well as users don't need to shift amongst several browser tabs at once.

Japan, Australia and the United States make up three of the top 10 nations in the world with the most cloud-friendly policies and laws, a report released by BSA/The Software Alliance (an industry group) shows.  The study covered the technology environments of 24 nations.