Author Archives: Ron Miller

Zoom acquires Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise

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Zoom announced this morning that it has acquired Keybase, a startup with encryption expertise. It did not reveal the purchase price. Keybase, which has been building encryption products for several years including secure file sharing and collaboration tools, should give Zoom some security credibility as it goes through pandemic demand growing pains. The company has […] Continue reading Zoom acquires Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise→

Harbr emerges from stealth to help build online data marketplaces

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Harbr co-founder Anthony Cosgrove has been working with data for over 15 years, so he has an inkling of some of the problems associated with pulling data together in a way that makes it easy for others to consume, whether internally or externally. Like many entrepreneurs before him, he decided to start a company to […] Continue reading Harbr emerges from stealth to help build online data marketplaces→

Box makes quick decision to add new collaboration capabilities in face of pandemic

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When the shutdown began six weeks ago, the powers that be at Box sat down for a meeting to discuss the situation. They weren’t in the same room of course. They were like everyone else, separated by the virus, but they saw this as a key moment for Box as a company. They had been […] Continue reading Box makes quick decision to add new collaboration capabilities in face of pandemic→

Equinix just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter

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There’s something to be said for consistency through good times and bad, and one company that has had a staggeringly consistent track record is international data center vendor, Equinix. It just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter, according to the company. That’s an astonishing record, and covers over 17 years of positive returns. That means […] Continue reading Equinix just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter→

Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers

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We find ourselves in a time when certain businesses are being asked to scale to levels they never imagined. Sometimes that increased usage comes in bursts, which means you don’t want to pay for permanent extra capacity you might not always need. Today, Confluent introduced a new scale on demand feature for its Apache Kafka […] Continue reading Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers→

Microsoft to open first data center in New Zealand as cloud usage grows

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In spite of being in the midst of a pandemic sowing economic uncertainty, one area that continues to thrive is cloud computing. Perhaps that explains why Microsoft, which saw Azure grow 59% in its most recent earnings report, announced plans to open a new data center in New Zealand once it receives approval from the […] Continue reading Microsoft to open first data center in New Zealand as cloud usage grows→

Run:AI brings virtualization to GPUs running Kubernetes workloads

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In the early 2000s, VMware introduced the world to virtual servers that allowed IT to make more efficient use of idle server capacity. Today, Run:AI is introducing that same concept to GPUs running containerized machine learning projects on Kubernetes. This should enable data science teams to have access to more resources than they would normally […] Continue reading Run:AI brings virtualization to GPUs running Kubernetes workloads→

Sleuth raises $3M Seed to bring order to continuous deployment

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Sleuth, an early stage startup from three former Atlassian employees, wants to bring some much-needed order to the continuous delivery process. Today, the company announced it has raised a $3 million seed round. ​CRV led the round with participation from angel investors from New Relic, Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. “Sleuth is a deployment tracker built to […] Continue reading Sleuth raises $3M Seed to bring order to continuous deployment→

Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M Series D as scalable database resonates

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Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk valuations, but was happy to have a big chunk of money to help build on its recent success and ride out the current economic malaise. Altimeter Capital and Bond co-led the […] Continue reading Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M Series D as scalable database resonates→

In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars

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It’s fair to say that even before the impact of COVID-19, companies had begun a steady march to the cloud. Maybe it wasn’t fast enough for AWS, as Andy Jassy made clear in his 2019 Re:invent keynote, but it was happening all the same and the steady revenue increases across the cloud infrastructure market bore […] Continue reading In spite of pandemic (or maybe because of it), cloud infrastructure revenue soars→