Microsoft and HPE throw their weight behind Mesosphere

Cloud computing startup Mesosphere made its mark early with large companies like Twitter and Netflix, and on Thursday the company got a fresh boost from two more tech giants: Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.Built on the open-source Apache Mesos project credited with helping Twitter kill its "Fail Whale," the company has closed US$73.5 million in a Series C funding round led by HPE, with participation from Microsoft as a new strategic investor.Designed to help enterprises build microserv