Author Archives: Ron Miller

Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly

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While the overall cloud infrastructure market is booming having reached $30 billion last quarter worldwide, Oracle is struggling with market share in the low single digits. It is hoping that the Zoom and TikTok deals can jump start those numbers, but trying to catch the market leaders Amazon, Microsoft and Google, never mind several other […] Continue reading Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly→

Microsoft enhances customer data platform as pandemic drives need for personalization

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When Microsoft introduced its customer data platform last February the focus was on simply connecting silos of data to help customers get the data into the system, but as the pandemic has taken hold this year, customers need deeper insight into their customers and Microsoft has made some enhancements to the platform today. James Phillips, […] Continue reading Microsoft enhances customer data platform as pandemic drives need for personalization→

SAP continues to build out customer experience business with Emarsys acquisition

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SAP seemed to be all in on customer experience when it acquired Qualtrics for $8 billion in 2018. It continued on that journey today when it announced it was acquiring Austrian cloud marketing company Emarsys for an undisclosed amount of money. Emarsys, which raised over $55 million, according to PitchBook data, gives SAP customer personalization […] Continue reading SAP continues to build out customer experience business with Emarsys acquisition→

Altinity grabs $4M seed to build cloud version of ClickHouse open source data warehouse

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Earlier this month, cloud data warehouse Snowflake turned heads when it debuted on the stock market. Today, Altinity, the commercial company behind the open source ClickHouse data warehouse announced a $4 million seed round from Accel along with a new cloud service, Altinity.Cloud. “Fundamentally, the company started out as an open source services bureau offering […] Continue reading Altinity grabs $4M seed to build cloud version of ClickHouse open source data warehouse→

Coralogix lands $25M Series B to rethink log analysis and monitoring

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Logging and monitoring tends to be an expensive endeavor because of the sheer amount of data involved. Companies are therefore forced to pick and choose what they monitor, limiting what they can see. Coralogix wants to change that by offering a more flexible pricing model, and today the company announced a $25 million Series B […] Continue reading Coralogix lands $25M Series B to rethink log analysis and monitoring→

Salesforce creates for profit platform to help governments distribute COVID vaccine when it’s ready

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For more than 20 years, Salesforce has been selling cloud business software, but it has also used the same platform to build ways to track other elements besides sales, marketing and service information including Work.com, the platform it created earlier this year to help companies develop and organize a safe way to begin returning to […] Continue reading Salesforce creates for profit platform to help governments distribute COVID vaccine when it’s ready→

How Twilio built its own conference platform

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Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […] Continue reading How Twilio built its own conference platform→

How Twilio built its own conference platform

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Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […] Continue reading How Twilio built its own conference platform→

Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform

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As machine learning has grown, one of the major bottlenecks remains labeling things so the machine learning application understands the data it’s working with. Datasaur, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 batch, announced a $3.9 million investment today to help solve that problem with a platform designed for machine learning labeling teams. The […] Continue reading Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform→

Axis Security raises $32M to help companies stay secure while working from home

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Axis Security launched last year with the idea of helping customers to enable contractors and third parties to remotely access a company’s systems in a safe way, but when the pandemic hit, they saw another use case, one which had been on their road map: helping keep systems secure when employees were working from home. […] Continue reading Axis Security raises $32M to help companies stay secure while working from home→