Author Archives: Ron Miller

Opsani helps optimize cloud applications with AI

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Opsani, a Redwood City, California startup, wants to go beyond performance monitoring to continually optimizing cloud applications, using artificial intelligence to help the software learn what is the optimal state. “We have come up with a machine learning technique centered around reinforcement learning to tune the performance of applications in the cloud,” company co-founder and […] Continue reading Opsani helps optimize cloud applications with AI→

Salesforce is acquiring ClickSoftware for $1.35B

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Another day, another Salesforce acquisition. Just days after closing the hefty $15.7 billion Tableau deal, the company opened its wallet again, this time announcing it has bought field service software company ClickSoftware for a tidy $1.35 billion. This one is designed to beef up the company’s field service offering under the Service Cloud umbrella. In […] Continue reading Salesforce is acquiring ClickSoftware for $1.35B→

With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times

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If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where every company was suddenly concerned about processing huge amounts of data. The future was bright, an open […] Continue reading With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times→

Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform

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Rookout, a startup that provides debugging across a variety of environments including serverless and containers, announced an $8 million Series A investment today. It plans to use the money to expand beyond its debugging roots. The round was led by Cisco Investments along with existing investors TLV Partners and Emerge. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub; […] Continue reading Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform→

CircleCI brings its continuous integration to Microsoft programmers for first time

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CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on the outside looking in. Today, the company changed that announcing new support for Microsoft programmers using Windows Server 2019. CircleCI, which announced a $56 million Series D investment last month, is […] Continue reading CircleCI brings its continuous integration to Microsoft programmers for first time→

Zendesk puts Smooch acquisition to work with WhatsApp integration

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Zendesk has always been all about customer service. Last spring it purchased Smooch to move more deeply into messaging app integration. Today, the company announced it was integrating WhatsApp, the popular messaging tool, into the Zendesk customer service toolkit. Smooch was an early participant in the WhatsApp Business API program. What that does in practice […] Continue reading Zendesk puts Smooch acquisition to work with WhatsApp integration→

Slack makes some key security enhancements

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As Slack makes its way deeper into the enterprise, it needs to layer on more sophisticated security measures like the encryption key management feature it released last year. Today, the company published a blog post outlining its latest security strategy, and while it still doesn’t include end-to-end encryption of Slack messaging, it is a big […] Continue reading Slack makes some key security enhancements→

Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants

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Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of databases. It takes some good technology and serious dollars to compete with those companies. Cockroach took care of the latter with […] Continue reading Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants→

Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise to discuss customer experience management

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There are few topics as hot right now in the enterprise as customer experience management, that ability to collect detailed data about your customers, then deliver customized experiences based on what you have learned about them. To help understand the challenges companies face building this kind of experience, we are bringing Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt […] Continue reading Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise to discuss customer experience management→

Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native

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Mesosphere was born as the commercial face of the open source Mesos project. It was surely a clever solution to make virtual machines run much more efficiently, but times change and companies change. Today the company announced it was changing its name to Day2IQ or D2IQ for short, and fixing its sights on Kubernetes and […] Continue reading Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native→