This week Pivotal Labs raised over $100 million in funding from a high profile investor, VMware reported its first quarter earnings, and MuleSoft acquired a partner to boost its cloud API platform. Amazon also made headlines when it launched a new tool that simplifies the management of AWS environments.

General Electric injected $105 million into Pivotal Labs, the joint initiative that was recently spun off from EMC and VMware. The startup will invest the capital in the development of machine data analytics services that will be targeted at oil companies, healthcare providers and other organizations with large infrastructure footprints.

VMware, a key backer of Pivotal that created a sizable portion of the IP it presently owns, reported first quarter financial results on Wednesday. The virtualization specialist’s profit dropped 9.3 percent and it lowered its Q2 and full-year estimates, a move that sent the stock tumbling down to $70.8 in after-hour trading.

MuleSoft, a cloud integration platform that helps enterprises plug third party services into their on-premise infrastructure, bought out ProgrammableWeb for an undisclosed sum.  The latter operates an API directory that hosts tens of thousands of interfaces and mashups, which is the primary reason MuleSoft decided to pick it up. The site also serves as a community portal that supplies developers with updates about the ‘API economy’, as well as tools and other technical resources.

The final item that made it to this week’s roundup is OpsWorks, a new DevOps tool for managing, configuring and provisioning Amazon Web Services. The cloud provider pegs the solution as an end-to-end abstraction solution for the AWS stack that allows users to spin  up multiple instances just as fast as a  single one”.