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Boundary breaks into network monitoring-as-a-service

As everything moves to the cloud, the underlying network can make or break your apps.

To address the need for network visibility, Boundary, a developer of real-time network monitoring-as-a-service, today announced a $4 million Series A funding round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Boundary, which is focused on providing continuous visibility into network and application traffic flows in public cloud environments, was founded by Ben Black, previously part of Amazon.com's infrastructure team, and Cliff Moon, who was part of Powerset (acquired by Microsoft).

In terms of business models, this is clearly a case where cloud computing has helped … Read more

Yahoo licenses neighborhood map data

Yahoo has licensed detailed data that describes 40,000 neighborhood boundaries in more than 2,000 U.S. cities, from a company called Urban Mapping.

"Allowing users to search by neighborhood yields more appropriate results, adding value and relevancy to the overall experience," Bob Upham, director of business development for Yahoo's Geo Technologies group, said in a statement.

Urban Mapping's Urbanware database works with a thorny geographic issue, trying to describe informal and often ill-defined neighborhood boundaries.

Meanwhile, Yahoo hopes people will help define neighborhoods through its Flickr photo-sharing service, too.