Author Archives: Ron Miller

Boston-based DataRobot raises $206M Series E to bring AI to enterprise

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Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly large role in enterprise software, and Boston’s DataRobot has been helping companies build, manage and deploy machine learning models for some time now. Today, the company announced a $206 million Series E investment led by Sapphire Ventures. Other participants in this round included new investors Tiger Global Management, World […] Continue reading Boston-based DataRobot raises $206M Series E to bring AI to enterprise→

GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation

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GitLab is a company that doesn’t pull any punches or try to be coy. It actually has had a page on its website for sometime stating it intends to go public on November 18, 2020. You don’t see that level of transparency from late-stage startups all that often. Today, the company announced a huge $268 […] Continue reading GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation→

Ten years after Adobe bought Omniture, the deal comes into clearer focus

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Ten years ago this week, Adobe acquired Omniture for $1.8 billion. At the time, Adobe was a software company selling boxed software like Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop to creatives. Many people were baffled by the move, not realizing that purchasing a web analytics company was really the first volley in a full company transformation to […] Continue reading Ten years after Adobe bought Omniture, the deal comes into clearer focus→

Walt Disney Studios partners with Microsoft Azure on cloud innovation lab

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Seems like everything is going to the cloud these days, so why should moving-making be left out? Today, Walt Disney Studios announced a five-year partnership with Microsoft around an innovation lab to find ways to shift content production to the Azure cloud. The project involves the Walt Disney StudioLab, an innovation work space where Disney […] Continue reading Walt Disney Studios partners with Microsoft Azure on cloud innovation lab→

FOSSA scores $8.5 million Series A to help enterprise manage open source licenses

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As more enterprise developers make use of open source, it becomes increasingly important for companies to make sure that they are complying with licensing requirements. They also need to ensure the open sources bits are being updated over time for security purposes. That’s where FOSSA comes in, and today the company announced an $8.5 million […] Continue reading FOSSA scores $8.5 million Series A to help enterprise manage open source licenses→

Hear how to build a billion-dollar SaaS company at TechCrunch Disrupt

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There was a time when brick-and-mortar mom and pops framed their first $1 on the wall, but in the SaaS startup the equivalent milestone is $1 billion revenue run-rate. Salesforce is the SaaS revenue king reporting $4 billion in revenue for its most recent quarterly report, and there are many other relatively new SaaS companies, […] Continue reading Hear how to build a billion-dollar SaaS company at TechCrunch Disrupt→

The mainframe business is alive and well, as IBM announces new Z15

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It’s easy to think about mainframes as some technology dinosaur, but the fact is these machines remain a key component of many large organization’s computing strategies. Today, IBM announced the latest in their line of mainframe computers, the Z15. For starters, as you would probably expect, these are big and powerful machines capable of handling […] Continue reading The mainframe business is alive and well, as IBM announces new Z15→

Explorium reveals $19.1M in total funding for machine learning data discovery platform

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Explorium, a data discovery platform for machine learning models, received a couple of unannounced funding rounds over the last year — a $3.6 million seed round last September and a $15.5 million Series A round in March. Today, it made both of these rounds public. The seed round was led by Emerge with participation of […] Continue reading Explorium reveals $19.1M in total funding for machine learning data discovery platform→

ScyllaDB takes on Amazon with new DynamoDB migration tool

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There are a lot of open source databases out there, and ScyllaDB, a NoSQL variety, is looking to differentiate itself by attracting none other than Amazon users. Today, it announced a DynamoDB migration tool to help Amazon customers move to its product. It’s a bold move, but Scylla, which has a free open source product […] Continue reading ScyllaDB takes on Amazon with new DynamoDB migration tool→

HashiCorp announces fully managed service mesh on Azure

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Service mesh is just beginning to take hold in the cloud native world, and as it does, vendors are looking for ways to help customers understand it. One way to simplify the complexity of dealing with the growing number of service mesh products out there is to package it as a service. Today, HashiCorp announced […] Continue reading HashiCorp announces fully managed service mesh on Azure→