Author Archives: Ron Miller

Salesforce reaches Net Zero energy usage, announces updates to Sustainability Cloud

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Salesforce has often preached about responsible capitalism, and today at Dreamforce, the company’s annual customer extravaganza, it announced a notable achievement in the battle against global climate change. The company said that it has achieved effective Net Zero energy usage across its entire value chain with 100% renewable energy, while purchasing carbon offsets when that’s […] Continue reading Salesforce reaches Net Zero energy usage, announces updates to Sustainability Cloud→

Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations

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Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield sees Clips as a way to communicate with colleagues when a […] Continue reading Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations→

Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M

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Fivetran, the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on a $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised more than $50 million, for $700 million in cash and […] Continue reading Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M→

Mirantis launches cloud-native data center-as-a-service software

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Mirantis has been around the block, starting way back as an OpenStack startup, but a few years ago the company began to embrace cloud-native development technologies like containers, microservices and Kubernetes. Today, it announced Mirantis Flow, a fully managed open source set of services designed to help companies manage a cloud-native data center environment, whether […] Continue reading Mirantis launches cloud-native data center-as-a-service software→

Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat

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As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO and co-founder Jay Kreps will […] Continue reading Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat→

Fiberplane nabs € 7.5M seed to bring Google Docs-like collaboration to incident response

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Fiberplane, an Amsterdam-based early stage startup that is building collaborative notebooks for SREs (site reliability engineers)  to collaborate around an incident in a similar manner to group editing in a Google Doc, announced a ​​€ 7.5M (approximately $8.8 million USD) seed round today. The round was co-led by Crane Venture Partners and Notion Capital with […] Continue reading Fiberplane nabs € 7.5M seed to bring Google Docs-like collaboration to incident response→

Salesforce announces new Mulesoft RPA tool based on Servicetrace acquisition

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When Salesforce announced it was buying German RPA vendor Servicetrace last month, it seemed that it might match up well with Mulesoft, the company the CRM giant bought in 2018 for $6.5 billion. Mulesoft, among other things, helps customers build APIs to legacy systems, while Servicetrace provides a way to add automation to legacy systems. […] Continue reading Salesforce announces new Mulesoft RPA tool based on Servicetrace acquisition→

Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level

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Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today. At the same time, they revealed a previously unannounced $5 million seed round. Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures led the A round, while Unusual was sole lead on […] Continue reading Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level→

DataRobot CEO Dan Wright coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to discuss role of data in machine learning

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Just about every company is sitting on vast amounts of data, which they can use to their advantage if they can just learn how to harness it. Data is actually the fuel for machine learning models, and with the proper tools, businesses can learn to process this data and build models to help them compete […] Continue reading DataRobot CEO Dan Wright coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to discuss role of data in machine learning→