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With concerns about the immaturity and security of public clouds, many enterprise organizations are opting instead to implement private (or hybrid) clouds in order to access the benefits that cloud computing offers while still operating behind the firewall. Eucalyptus Systems, newScale, MomentumSI, and rPath announced a coalition yesterday at VMWorld they claim will ease that transition, offering the enterprise an integrated platform to provide an "on-ramp" to private and hybrid cloud computing.

Nimbula, the cloud operating system vendor founded by the developers of Amazon's EC2, announced today that it has secured $15 million in its second round of venture capital funding. This round was led by Accel Partners, with participation from Sequoia Capital, which led Nimbula's first VC round. The new funding brings the total raised for the company to over $20 million and will be used to expanding marketing and development of the company's hybrid cloud computing technologies.

Cloudkick is a cloud monitoring start-up that helps system admins manage cloud servers. Today, the company announced it is getting physical, bringing its cloud monitoring capabilities to internally hosted servers and virtual machines.

The company has had a lot of success in helping companies who startup in the cloud and start to achieve scale. It already has a host of hot startup companies including Posterous, Bump Technologies, and Urban Airship. Through listening to users, the company decided to offer local server support to merge its view of all server assets for these organizations.

Gladinet is a free Windows software program that lets you mount cloud storage as local folders on your PC while keeping both locations in sync with each other. It provides access to a number of "cloud" storage services which include: Amazon S3, Google Docs, Google, Picasa, ThinkFree, Zoho, Windows Live SkyDrive, and more. The product, which debuted as a tech preview back in the summer of 2008, has finally reached the release candidate milestone, a point at which the software should finally be more stable, more usable, and (hopefully) bug-free.