Joyent, a cloud computing outfit, has landed $15 million in funding with the intentions to “accelerate the adoption of application containers in the enterprise.”

There was participation from existing investors like Intel Capital, Orascom TMT Investments, El Dorado Ventures, EPIC Ventures, LGI Ventures and others in this round.

Virtual machines require a dedicated operating system for each instance whereas application containers leverage OS virtualization to run directly on hardware, resulting in streamlined, efficient infrastructure, enabling developers and system administrators to build portable applications that can be deployed virtually anywhere, explains Joyent.

“Though container­-mania only surfaced widely in the past year thanks to Docker and its emerging ecosystem, Joyent has championed container-based, OS­-level virtualization as a founding principle of its technology stack since 2005,” reports Joyent in a press release.

“Our customers are rapidly adopting Docker to create application containers, and they are seeking to use this new technology on Joyent’s proven infrastructure containers,” notes Scott Hammond, CEO, Joyent. “We believe that this specific combination of application containers and infrastructure containers will completely disrupt the data center and transform how business applications are built and delivered. This recent round of funding will enable us to aggressively build out our integration and support for Docker.”

The San Francisco based company has customers running their applications across thousands of infrastructure containers in the Joyent Public Cloud and leveraging Joyent’s private cloud software solution, SmartDataCenter, to manage their internal, container-based private clouds. Its customers include MongoLab and Nodejitsu among others.

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InsideSales.com, a company specialising in could-based sales acceleration technology, announced today that it has raised $100 million in series C funding. Polaris Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the funding round, with participation from Salesforce, Acadia Woods, EPIC Ventures, Hummer Winbald, U.S. Venture Partners and Zetta Venture Partners.

InsideSales.com provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) to more than 1,000 customers, including large enterprises like Microsoft, Fidelity, Groupon and Marketo. The company sits in between marketing automation services like Eloqua and Marketo and CRM vendors like Salesforce and Microsoft. The aim of InsideSales.com is to use resources from both of these fields to help sales teams become more effective in their operations.

“Customers, partners and investors frequently ask us what our secret sauce is,” InsideSales.com CEO and founder Dave Elkington said in a statement. “Our secret sauce is our scientific approach to sales. We use data as a strategic weapon to systematically improve sales performance and drive sales growth for our own company and for customers who want to maximize revenue growth.”

The company, which started in Utah in 2004, announced 107% growth last year. To continue expanding their operations, the new investment is expected to help the company move into new markets, hire engineers, coders, data scientists and sales people.

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