Author Archives: Ron Miller

In spite of slowing growth, Microsoft has been flexing its cloud muscles

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When Microsoft reported its FY19, Q4 earnings last week, the numbers were mostly positive, but as we pointed out, Azure earnings growth has stalled. Productivity and business, which includes Office 365, has also mostly flattened out. But slowing growth is not always as bad as it may seem. In fact, it’s an inevitability that once you […] Continue reading In spite of slowing growth, Microsoft has been flexing its cloud muscles→

Serverless, Inc expands free Framework to include monitoring and security

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Serverless development has largely been a lonely pursuit until recently, but Serverless, Inc has been offering a free framework for intrepid programmers since 2015. At first, that involved development, deployment and testing, but today the company announced it is expanding into monitoring and security to make it an end-to-end tool — and it’s available for […] Continue reading Serverless, Inc expands free Framework to include monitoring and security→

Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

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Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a foundational technology for enterprise software development and startups have begun addressing a variety of issues around using AI to make software and processes much more efficient. To that end, we are delighted to announce that Jocelyn Goldfein, a Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners will be joining on us […] Continue reading Investor Jocelyn Goldfein to join us on AI panel at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise→

Intel announces deep, multi-year partnership with SAP

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Intel announced a deep partnership with SAP today around using advanced Intel technology to optimize SAP software tools. Specifically the company plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for SAP’s suite of applications. The multi-year partnership includes giving SAP early access to emerging Intel technologies and building a […] Continue reading Intel announces deep, multi-year partnership with SAP→

AT&T signs $2 billion cloud deal with Microsoft

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While AWS leads the cloud infrastructure market by wide margin, Microsoft isn’t doing too badly, ensconced firmly in second place, the only other company with double-digit share. Today, it announced a big deal with AT&T that encompasses both Azure cloud and Office 365. A person with knowledge of the contract pegged the combined deal at […] Continue reading AT&T signs $2 billion cloud deal with Microsoft→

Dust Identity secures $10M Series A to identify objects with diamond dust

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The idea behind Dust Identity was originally born in an MIT lab where students developed a system of uniquely identifying objects using diamond dust. Since then, the startup has been working to create a commercial application for the advanced technology, and today it announced a $10 million Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins, which […] Continue reading Dust Identity secures $10M Series A to identify objects with diamond dust→

Judge dismisses Oracle lawsuit over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract

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Oracle has been complaining about the procurement process around the Pentagon’s $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract, even before the DoD opened requests for proposals last year. It went so far as to file a lawsuit in December, claiming a potential conflict of interest on the part of a procurement team member. Today, that case […] Continue reading Judge dismisses Oracle lawsuit over $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud contract→

With $34B Red Hat deal closed, IBM needs to execute now

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In a summer surprise this week, IBM announced it had closed its $34 billion blockbuster deal to acquire Red Hat. The deal, which was announced in October, was expected to take a year to clear all of the regulatory hurdles, but U.S. and EU regulators moved surprisingly quickly. For IBM, the future starts now, and […] Continue reading With $34B Red Hat deal closed, IBM needs to execute now→

Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce

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In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter. The market was led by Microsoft and Salesforce. It shouldn’t be a surprise at this point that these two enterprise powerhouses come in at the top. Microsoft reported $10.1 […] Continue reading Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce→

We’re talking Kubernetes at TC Sessions: Enterprise with Google’s Aparna Sinha and VMware’s Craig McLuckie

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Over the past five years, Kubernetes has grown from a project inside of Google to an open source powerhouse with an ecosystem of products and services, attracting billions of dollars in venture investment. In fact, we’ve already seen some successful exits, including one from one of our panelists. On September 5th at TC Sessions: Enterprise, […] Continue reading We’re talking Kubernetes at TC Sessions: Enterprise with Google’s Aparna Sinha and VMware’s Craig McLuckie→