Engine Yard will use the funds to expand its global operations, strengthen its customer service organization worldwide and enhance the core technologies that power Ruby on Rails applications. Benchmark general partners Mitch Lasky and Peter Fenton will join the Engine Yard's board of directors.

"As the Rails community matures and makes greater inroads into the enterprise, Engine Yard's scalable, robust deployment solutions are increasingly necessary to achieve industry-leading application performance," says Lasky. "With an unwavering commitment to customer service, Engine Yard has built a strong and loyal base of customers and attracted some of the best and brightest talent in the Ruby on Rails community."

Engine Yard says it provides the infrastructure and around the clock operations support needed to host and manage business-critical Ruby on Rails applications. Its cluster architecture is designed to optimize server performance, database efficiency and security, and offers redundant hardware and software for high reliability and long-term scalability.