CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. After the service provider and hosting movement began in 2000, providers quickly realized they needed a better, more efficient way to provision and deploy servers. Therefore, many developed custom configurationand deployment plans to differentiate their services. Loudcloud has 50 large companies as customers of its managed hosting business, but like other service providers such as ProTier, Loudcloud found that many otherswere more interested in its software than its services. Its hosting business lost $200 million in 2001.

• Loudcloud offers a comprehensive solution in Opsware, but it costs significantly more than others in this market, Despite these challenges, Loudcloud has some significant advantages over other newcomers in server configuration management, including these, • $65 million in cash and no debt, • A proven product already used by 50 customers (in the service model), • Five customers, including Electronic Data Systems, using its Opsware product, • A management gamer pattern (white on black) iphone case team with experience running a software company..

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Qsent said Tuesday that it has raised $12 million in a second round of funding. Oak Investment Partners led the round with contributions from Voyager Capital, Maveron and Silicon Valley Bank. The round brings the Portland, Ore.-based company's total financing to $46 million. Qsent will use the capital to expand the market reach and penetration of its directory information services. The company has formed agreements with all the local Baby Bell phone companies to receive frequently updated phone numbers and addresses, which it puts into a database. Qsent then sells this information in the form of a Web-based or integrated service to debt collection agencies, insurance companies, overnight delivery services and Internet retailers.