Informatica Corporation the world’s number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced the general availability of the Informatica Cloud Summer 2010 release. The new release significantly broadens the company’s award winning data integration Cloud Services with pre-packaged plug-ins that enable data quality and business-to-business (B2B) data transformation in the cloud.

With Informatica Cloud Summer 2010, customers and partners can also build and share custom plug-ins through the Informatica Marketplace and take advantage of pre-packaged connectivity for applications such as Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Xactly, Right 90, Big Machines and numerous others.

Cloud9 Analytics, a provider of SaaS business analytics for line-of-business managers, today announced it has closed its Series C financing for $8 million. The financing round was led by Mayfield Fund, with participation from existing investors InterWest Partners and Leapfrog Ventures. This brings its total in funding to $21.6 million.

Rajeev Batra of Mayfield Fund joins the Cloud9 Analytics Board of Directors.

Symplified, the Cloud security company, today announced Symplified Trust Cloud™ -- the first unified identity and access management (IAM) solution designed for enterprises using the Amazon EC2 (elastic compute cloud) platform to run their applications in the cloud. Symplified Trust Cloud enables organizations to meet US, European Union, and country-specific compliance mandates for data governance; accelerate the implementation of SAML single sign-on (SSO) federation; and deploy IAM for their cloud resources in days.

“Organizations wishing to move applications to the cloud have been held back by the lack of truly native cloud-based identity management solutions.  This has forced enterprises to choose either fragmented management of identity across multiple cloud application providers (with the inconvenience of multiple user logons) or an inefficient hybrid of cloud-hosted applications and on-premises identity management,” said Bob Blakley, vice president and research director for industry research firm Burton Group. “The cloud’s promise won’t be realized until identity management can provide a single source of user administration, hosted in a cloud datacenter, supporting single sign on to multiple cloud applications by users whose accounts are managed in multiple cloud repositories.”

Major customers across multiple verticals select BMC in deals involving virtualization and cloud management

Single, unified IT management a "must have" for companies seeking benefits of physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT

BMC Software has announced that it has passed the $100 million mark in highly strategic "cloud foundation" deals where virtualization and computing management capabilities were the key element in the customer's final selection.