The latest round of financial support will be used for continueddevelopment and bringing to market its Teaming technology forscaling storage and clustered computing environments.The technologyharnesses maximum computing power by utilizing resources acrossmany computers in a cost-efficient way to increase total system andapplication performance.

In a deal sealed last week, Dallas' VocalData has been given $32million in new equity from Austin Ventures and Trinity Ventures,co-leaders of the Series B round. Series A investors participatingin the funding are Science Applications International Corp., ChaseCapital, Seed Capital Partners, Capital Southwest Corp. and HickoryVentures. The Series A fund closed in fall 1999 and included leasefinancing from Silicon Valley Bank. To date, VocalData has raised$47.5 million.

The funding pact calls for Fred Wang, Trinity Ventures' generalpartner, and Ed Olkkola, Austin Venture's general partner, to siton VocalData's board of directors. VocalData develops and marketsservice delivery softswitches and enhanced services platforms forcommunications carriers. The latest funding round will be used forbranding and development.