Blue Medora, a leading innovator in software for enterprise cloud and data center management, today announced the close of an $8.6 million Series B round led by St. Louis-based Lewis & Clark Ventures. Blue Medora creates software that offers a single view of applications, databases and infrastructure to quickly resolve IT issues, increase uptime and optimize performance for business applications. Known for developing extensions for virtualized and application management platforms such as Oracle, IBM, VMware vRealize and New Relic, last month Blue Medora launched SelectStar, its first SaaS-based solution that unifies databases and cloud infrastructure monitoring. These Blue Medora IT operational analytics (ITOA) solutions provide IT managers, devops and database architects with complete visibility to the performance of their IT stack.