There was a lot of chatter last year going into the OpenStack Summit about how the community would like to see broader and deeper adoption of the open source cloud in Europe and Asia. Morphlabs, at least, was apparently listening. On Tuesday, the company announced a brandy new $ 10 million Series D fund raise, much of which will be devoted to, in its own words: extending “the company’s leadership position in the Asia OpenStack market through an aggressive training and seminar program, and through its partnership with NEC.” So there.
The Los Angeles-based company with offices in Tokyo, Manilla and Cebu, pushes OpenStack for both private and public clouds and hopes to arm third-party service providers with technology to enable them to compete with Amazon Web Services, is about to launch OpenStack training starting in Manila next month, then traveling to Jakarta, Singapore, Cebu and Hong Kong.
If you doubt that the OpenStack faithful are dead serious about adoption in Asia, where the cloud market is, in the words of some, “wide open,” just remember that this fall’s OpenStack Summit will take place in Hong Kong.
This latest Morphlabs funding round was led by new investor Tallwood Capital with contributions from current backer G2iG, and brings the total capital raised to $ 22.5 million.
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