The as-a-service industry had a lot of updates this week, and more than one represented a milestone in the expansion of this area.

This week two cloud startups raised some fresh capital. One of them is New Relic, a company that provides an application monitoring service from the cloud, and recently expanded its offering to include backend monitoring as well. DAG Ventures and Four Rivers Group, in addition to existing investors Allen & Company, Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital, and Trinity Ventures all contributed to the $15 million funding round. New Relic said in a press release that it will use the fresh capital to address “overwhelming demand.”

On the other hand ServicesMesh, a cloud platform provider, received $15 million from Ignition Partners. The startup’s offering lets enterprises manage and monitor their hybrid cloud deployments, and version 7.3 of its Agility Platform has been released a month ago.

DotCloud also had an update this week. Its platform-as-service solution is meant to reduce the burden of managing different technology stacks, and it just extended support to three new databases.  Simplifying cloud deployments has become the focus of many vendors out there, and a number of companies are developing solutions to achieve this goal on different levels. Among them is ScaleXtreme, which developed the ScaleXtreme Xpert solution that helps companies scale their clouds across a number of providers.

The latest addition to the software is the Dynamic Server Assembly functionality released this week. It enables companies to launch servers across the various providers the platform support, and automate the process using a number of configurations or templates. Amazon Web Service is one of the platforms ScaleXtreme support, and it too rolled out a new feature recently. In an official blog post Jeff Barr unveiled details on how customers can now rent a supercomputer-scale instance.