Cloud computing is taking a major chunk of over all investments in the computing field. The most recent example is that of Nimbula. The company announced securing further investments, an amount of $15 million, in the second round of venture capital funding. This funding does not come as a surprise to some analysts;

What separates Nimbula from the myriad of private cloud companies…is the pedigree of its executive team. Nimbula was founded by Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, the execs who led the development of the Amazon EC2 public cloud service. These high-profile founders have attracted high-profile VCs to boot: Accel funded such big names as AdMob, Facebook and ComScore while Sequoia Capital, an existing investor that also took part in this round, backed big names Yahoo, Google and YouTube.

Nimbula executives were not only part of the dream team who developed Amazon EC2. They were also among the finalists of the LaunchPad in the Structure Conference 2010. Nebula’s product Director is a much-appreciated cloud computing operating system providing benefits such as security, flexibility, ease of use, scalability and reliability.

Nimbula will remain in private beta.  This most recent round of funding demonstrates the persistent interest in cloud computing, particularly for the enterprise and SMB market.