Symform, a company that brings peer-to-peer technology to bear on the cloud storage problem, netted $11 million in a new Series B investment round led by WestRiver Capital and including OVP and Longworth Venture Partners — all previous investors with the Seattle-based company. Erik Anderson of WestRiver Capital joins the Symform Board of Directors.

Skytap, the application development and testing cloud that is funded in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is tweaking its service once again, adding a new management interface and other features to make it easier for IT departments that use Skytap to give coders a better experience and rein in the budget.

Skytap, a cloud service provider that claims to have more than a million hosted VMs in its cloud, today announced three new improvements to its service that will ease testing and operating collections of new virtual machines (VMs). The three features include better remote access, customizable usage reports and a new burstable rate for heavy traffic conditions.

Business continuity cloud technology provider Doyenz on Wednesday released a new agent for VMware vSphere it claims can help SMBs restore their application and data environments within 15 minutes of a disaster.

Open-source cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, cash that will help the company serve quickly growing demand for private and hybrid clouds.

Eucalyptus Systems, the developer of an open source, on-premise private cloud computing platform, has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). To date, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $55.5 million in capital.

Cloud computing startup Eucalyptus has snagged $30 million in Series C funding for its open-source software that lets users build private clouds akin to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) led the new round, along with contributions from existing backers Benchmark Capital, BV Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Total funding for Eucalyptus is now $55.5 million.

Not everyone wants to run their applications on the public cloud. Their reasons can vary widely. Some companies don’t want the crown jewels of their intellectual property leaving the confines of their own premises. Some just like having things run on a server they can see and touch.

Symform co-founder and President Praerit Garg says there’s something wrong with the way data is being stored in public clouds today, namely that public cloud providers rely on data centers, which are expensive and have inherent security risks.

Eucalyptus Systems has raised $30 million in fresh venture capital from the same firm that funded Netflix and Twitter, bringing the Goleta-based cloud computing software company’s total capital raised to date to $55.5 million.