VentureBeat reports that Cloudant, Boston-based database-as-a-service startup has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, led by Devonshire Investors, Rackspace Hosting, and Toba Capital, along with participation by existing investors Avalon Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. . Read More

Dell today announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an award-winning provider of software and consulting services that deliver hybrid-cloud and single-cloud management capabilities. The acquisition of Enstratius further enhances Dell’s end-to-end solutions strategy bringing key capabilities to deliver cloud management products to our customers. Enstratius is available as software-as-a-service or as on-premise software that enables full control from within a customer’s data center, or via a hosted service. Read More

FeedHenry, a provider of cloud- based mobile enterprise application solutions, announced that it has raised $9 million (€7 million) in a funding round, led by Intel Capital with participation from Kernel Capital, VMware Inc., private investors and new investor ACT Venture Capital. Read More

Instart Logic, supplier of a cloud-based service for web publishers that enhances user experience online and over mobile and Wi-Fi networks, has announced a $17 million round of funding, bringing the total amount raised to $26 million. Read More

Zerto has announced it has raised $13 million in a round of funding, led by RTP Ventures, an affiliate of ru-Net Holdings, along with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures, Greylock IL and U.S. Venture Partners. . Read More

AllThingsD reports that one of Yahoo’s top women executives, Elissa Murphy, who is Vice President of engineering for cloud services, is leaving the company to join GoDaddy as the company's CTO, according to their sources. Read More

TechCrunch reports that SAP has opened a co-innovation lab in Singapore, the fourth one in the Asia-Pacific region. The German-based software company hopes to enable member organizations to have a space to experiment on a number of different software and hardware combinations, and offers its cloud infrastructure to support this. Read More