VMware made its second investment in the database and cloud monitoring platform developer, taking its total funding to $14.5m.

US-based cloud and data centre management software producer Blue Medora closed an $8.6m series B round yesterday featuring cloud and virtualisation technology provider VMware.

Venture capital firm Lewis & Clark Ventures led the round, which also featured eLab Ventures, Start Garden and Grand Angels, and which boosted Blue Medora’s overall funding to $14.5m.

Blue Medora has developed a database and cloud monitoring platform that combines data from virtualised and cloud-based databases, applications and services with compute, storage and network infrastructure.