Author Archives: Ron Miller

Dropbox begins shift to high efficiency Western Digital Shingled Magnetic Recording disks

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Last year, Dropbox talked about making a shift to Shingled Magnetic Recording or SMR disks for short because of the efficiency they can give a high volume storage platform like theirs. Today, Western Digital announced that Dropbox was one of the first companies to qualify their Ultrastar® DC HC650 20TB, host-managed SMR hard disks. Dropbox’s […] Continue reading Dropbox begins shift to high efficiency Western Digital Shingled Magnetic Recording disks→

Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic

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Customer experience and digital transformation are two terms we’ve been hearing about for years, but have often remained nebulous in many organizations — something to aspire to perhaps, but not take completely seriously. Yet the pandemic has been a forcing event for both concepts, thrusting the ideas front and center. Suddenly startups that help with […] Continue reading Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic→

Harness delivers enterprise continuous integration on heels of Drone.io acquisition

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In August, Harness made its first acquisition when it bought open source continuous integration startup Drone.io. The company didn’t waste any time building on that purchase, announcing a new enterprise continuous integration tool today to go alongside the open source project Drone has been building. The Harness software development platform consists of various modules and […] Continue reading Harness delivers enterprise continuous integration on heels of Drone.io acquisition→

Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic

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The pandemic has put stress on companies dealing with a workforce that is mostly — and sometimes suddenly — working from home. That has led to rising needs for security and governance tooling, something that Egnyte is looking to meet with new features aimed at helping companies cope with file management during the pandemic. Egnyte […] Continue reading Egnyte introduces new features to help deal with security/governance during pandemic→

Google announces slew of Chrome OS features to help extend enterprise usage

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As companies have moved to work from home this year, working on the internet has become the norm, and it turns out that Chrome OS was an operating system built for cloud-based applications. But most enterprise use cases are a bit more complex, and Google introduced some new features today to make it easier for […] Continue reading Google announces slew of Chrome OS features to help extend enterprise usage→

Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M

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Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million. With 128 Technology, the company gets more AI SD-WAN technology. SD-WAN […] Continue reading Juniper Networks acquires Boston-area AI SD-WAN startup 128 Technology for $450M→

Private equity firms can offer enterprise startups a viable exit option

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Four years ago, Ping Identity was at a crossroads. A venerable player in the single sign-on market, its product was not a market leader, and after 14 years and $128 million in venture capital, it needed to find a new path. While the company had once discussed an IPO, by 2016 it began putting out […] Continue reading Private equity firms can offer enterprise startups a viable exit option→

Atlassian Smarts adds machine learning layer across the company’s platform of services

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Atlassian has been offering collaboration tools, often favored by developers and IT for some time with such stalwarts as Jira for help desk tickets, Confluence to organize your work and BitBucket to organize your development deliverables, but what it lacked was machine learning layer across the platform to help users work smarter within and across […] Continue reading Atlassian Smarts adds machine learning layer across the company’s platform of services→

Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform

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Vivun’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Darrow used to run pre-sales at Zuora and he saw that pre-sales team members had a lot of insight into customers. He believed if he could capture that insight, it would turn into valuable data to be shared across the company. He launched Vivun to build upon that idea in […] Continue reading Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform→

DroneDeploy teams with Boston Dynamics to deliver inside-outside view of job site

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DroneDeploy, a cloud software company that uses drone footage to help industries like agriculture, oil and gas and construction get a birds-eye view of a site to build a 3D picture, announced a new initiative today that combines drone photos with cameras on the ground or even ground robots from a company like Boston Dynamics […] Continue reading DroneDeploy teams with Boston Dynamics to deliver inside-outside view of job site→