IBM opens new Cambridge, MA security headquarters with massive cyber range

 It was a big day today for IBM today as it opened its shiny new security headquarters in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, complete with what the company is calling the first commercial cyber range. A cyber range is a network security testing envi… Continue reading IBM opens new Cambridge, MA security headquarters with massive cyber range→

Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram

Facebook Sisense bot Sisense, a company which helps customers link multiple data sources and summarize them in a single dashboard view, has not shied away from experimenting with new ways of interacting with the data inside its business intelligence product. Earlier this year, it announced integration with the Amazon Echo, enabling users to simply ask Alexa for certain data. Today, the company announced new… Read More Continue reading Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram→

Zuora latest cloud company to launch predictive data product

 Zuora, the cloud company that helps SaaS companies and others manage their subscription businesses, launched Zuora Insights today, a product designed to help customers understand the nuances of the data behind the subscriptions. Like so many SaaS… Continue reading Zuora latest cloud company to launch predictive data product→

GE Digital snags ServiceMax for $915 million

GE headquarters in Boston GE Digital announced today it was buying ServiceMax, a cloud-based field service management company, for $915 million. GE Ventures had been an investor in the company as part of the $82 million Series F round in 2015. The two companies have more in common than you might think. GE is building the Predix Platform, on top of which it hopes companies will build applications that take advantage… Read More Continue reading GE Digital snags ServiceMax for $915 million→

AppDynamics update looks to measure impact of performance on business

screen-shot-2016-11-10-at-10-15-48-am It seems to have been the week for modern application performance monitoring tools to announce major updates. First, New Relic announced theirs on Monday and today AppDynamics followed suit with its own update to provide more direct insight into business performance — not just the underlying systems and applications. Both messages are remarkably similar, even the platform naming. On… Read More Continue reading AppDynamics update looks to measure impact of performance on business→

OneLogin acquires Sphere Secure Workspace to gain mobile management foothold

iPhone 7 OneLogin, a company that provides identity management in the cloud, has become rather acquisitive over the last year buying CafeSoft last December and Portadi in June. Today it announced it was acquiring Sphere Secure Workspace to add mobile device management to their identity-driven security model.
“We are getting the hang of acquiring companies and propelling our roadmap very… Read More Continue reading OneLogin acquires Sphere Secure Workspace to gain mobile management foothold→

New Relic extends monitoring to containers and micro service environments

New Relic Dashboard Monitoring used to be a relatively simple matter. Most companies had a fixed number of applications to monitor. These were usually delivered on the web and lived for a number of years on a fairly fixed number of servers.
Today’s environment is far more varied and complex, and New Relic made a series of announcements today designed to help customers deal with new ways of delivering… Read More Continue reading New Relic extends monitoring to containers and micro service environments→

CoreOS introduces Operators to streamline Kubernetes container management

Old Cord Switchboard Operator CoreOS introduced a new container management concept today known as Operators, which they say will advance the Kubernetes project by offering more automated container management. What’s more, they are open sourcing the technology. “We are introducing the concept of an ‘Operator.’ It’s a concept for taking a lot of the knowledge an engineer [or developer] has inside… Read More Continue reading CoreOS introduces Operators to streamline Kubernetes container management→

Microsoft Teams feels like déjà vu all over again

screenshot-2016-11-02-16-02-08 Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams today to much fanfare and hoopla — as only Microsoft can seem to do these days. But when you take a close look at today’s announcement, what have you really got here — a 10-year-old idea on how to communicate and collaborate in the enterprise with a distinctly Microsoft twist. As I wrote previously about Slack and more recently Workplace… Read More Continue reading Microsoft Teams feels like déjà vu all over again→

Microsoft Teams feels like déjà vu all over again

screenshot-2016-11-02-16-02-08 Microsoft introduced Microsoft Teams today to much fanfare and hoopla — as only Microsoft can seem to do these days. But when you take a close look at today’s announcement, what have you really got here — a 10-year-old idea on how to communicate and collaborate in the enterprise with a distinctly Microsoft twist. As I wrote previously about Slack and more recently Workplace… Read More Continue reading Microsoft Teams feels like déjà vu all over again→