{"id":10491,"date":"2014-04-02T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3040841"},"modified":"2014-04-02T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T18:17:00","slug":"elasticbox-secures-9m-in-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/elasticbox-secures-9m-in-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"ElasticBox Secures $9M in Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The investment comes from Nexus Venture Partners and Intel Capital, and joins previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Sierra Ventures.<br \/>\n\u201cThe cloud has fundamentally improved how people access and use infrastructure. But developing cloud based applications is still a lengthy, expensive and broken process that is stuck in the dark ages, like way back in the days of bare metal,\u201d said CEO and co-founder of ElasticBox, Ravi Srivatsav. \u201cElasticBox empowers the developer with preconfigured Boxes that they can mix and match to create applications \u2013 similar to the way a DJ blends beats and samples to create new music. It brings Dr. Dre-like creativity to enterprise application development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3040841\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investment comes from Nexus Venture Partners and Intel Capital, and joins previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Sierra Ventures.<br \/>\n&ldquo;The cloud has fundamentally improved how people access and use infrastructure. But developing cloud based applications is still a lengthy, expensive and broken process that is stuck in the dark ages, like way back in the days of bare metal,&rdquo; said CEO and co-founder of ElasticBox, Ravi Srivatsav. &ldquo;ElasticBox empowers the developer with preconfigured Boxes that they can mix and match to create applications &ndash; similar to the way a DJ blends beats and samples to create new music. It brings Dr. Dre-like creativity to enterprise application development.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3040841\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}