Collaborate Disseminate
When Snowflake filed its S-1 ahead of an upcoming IPO yesterday, it wasn’t exactly a shock. The company which raised $1.4 billion had been valued at $12.4 billion in its last private raise in February. CEO Frank Slootman, who had taken over from Bob Muglia in May last year, didn’t hide the fact that going […] Continue reading Industry experts say it’s full speed ahead as Snowflake files S-1
Zendesk has been offering customers the ability to track customer service statistics for some time, but it has always been a look back. Today, the company announced a new product called Explorer Enterprise that lets customers capture that valuable info in real time, and share it with anyone in the organization, whether they have a […] Continue reading New Zendesk dashboard delivers customer service data in real time
Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. After she graduated, she decided to expand on that vision to build a product that could not only track […] Continue reading MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A
When Google announced Anthos last year at Google Cloud Next, it was a pretty big deal. Here was a cloud company releasing a product that purported to help you move your applications between cloud companies like AWS and Azure — that would be GCP’s competitors — because it’s what customers demanded. Google tapped into genuine […] Continue reading Google Cloud Anthos update brings support for on-prem, bare metal
It’s been quite a day in the tech world with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public. Not to be left out the ever acquisitive Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire The Crypsis Group, an incident response, risk management and digital forensics consulting firm for a crisp $265 million. Nikesh Arora, […] Continue reading Palo Alto Networks to buy digital forensics consulting firm for $265M
Once upon a time, Box’s Aaron Levie was just a guy with an idea for a company: 15 years ago as a USC student, he conceived of a way to simply store and share files online. It may be hard to recall, but back then, the world was awash with thumb drives and moving files […] Continue reading Box CEO Aaron Levie says thrifty founders have more control
By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big name enterprise companies are interested. These organizations are better known for the kind of tech that would bore the average TikTok user to tears. Yet, […] Continue reading Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?
No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online. Count Atlassian in that camp, as it provides a suite of tools focused on working smarter in a digital context. At a time when many employees are […] Continue reading A pandemic and recession won’t stop Atlassian’s SaaS push
When you start a company, it can be tempting to keep it simple. You want something that investors and customers can easily understand. While it might be easier to go that route, that is not something that CloudFlare did when it launched a decade ago at TechCrunch Disrupt. Instead, the company decided to go big […] Continue reading Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn to discuss building a company with a bold idea at TechCrunch Disrupt
While Google Cloud Platform has shown some momentum in the last year, it remains a distant third behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market. But Google got some good news from Canalys today when the firm reported that GCP is the number one cloud platform provider for retailers. Canalys didn’t provide specific numbers, […] Continue reading Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers