Raleigh, N.C.-based developer 6fusion recently snared $7
million in Series-B funding to continue to develop and market its
cloud management products; this follows a seed round of $3 million.
That's a pretty healthy endorsement for a company that's been
around for only three years, and for founders who don't have a
star-studded string of IPOs behind them. Don't get us wrong:
Co-founders John Cowan and Delano Seymour are sharp guys with big
ideas. It's just that usually, when you read about that kind of VC
money, you find mention of big-name past successes in the founders'
backgrounds. Cowan, who serves as 6fusion's CEO, came from 12 years
of business and product development in IT and telecommunications.
Seymour, now 6fusion's CTO, is a Canadian engineer and developer
who spent most of his time providing IT services for offshore
companies in Bermuda. The big idea behind 6fusion is this: Cloud
computing needs a better way to simplify the metering, consumption,
and billing of compute, storage and network resources. To that end,
they developed what they call the Workload Allocation Cube (WAC) ,
which 6fusion says is the most granular and universal metric for
metering and delivering cloud computing on the market today....Read
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