Author Archives: Ron Miller

As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC

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NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the respective cities on the same day. But it’s worth pointing out that while these large tech organizations were pulling out, Google was expanding in both locations. Yesterday upon hearing about Amazon’s decision […] Continue reading As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC→

Zendesk just hired three former Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe execs

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Today, Zendesk announced it had hired three new executives — Elisabeth Zornes, former general manager of global support for Microsoft Office, as Zendesk’s first chief customer officer; former Adobe executive Colleen Berube as chief information officer and former Salesforce executive Shawna Wolverton as senior vice president, product. The company emphasized that the hirings were about […] Continue reading Zendesk just hired three former Microsoft, Salesforce and Adobe execs→

AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control

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When you think about Infrastructure as a Service, you typically pay for a virtual machine that resides in a multi-tenant environment. That means, it’s using a set of shared resources. For many companies that approach is fine, but when a customer wants more control, they may prefer a single tenant system where they control the […] Continue reading AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control→

Block Kit helps deliver more visually appealing content in Slack

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Slack has become a critical communications tool for many organizations. One of the things that has driven its rapid success has been the ability to connect to external enterprise apps inside of Slack, giving employees what is essentially a centralized workhub. This ability has led to some unintended consequences around formatting issues, which Slack addressed […] Continue reading Block Kit helps deliver more visually appealing content in Slack→

Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle

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When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second place with around 14 percent, the only other company in double digits. We also know that IBM and […] Continue reading Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle→

Glide helps you build mobile apps from a spreadsheet without coding

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The founders of Glide, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class, had a notion that building mobile apps in the enterprise was too hard. They decided to simplify the process by starting with a spreadsheet, and automatically turning the contents into a slick mobile app. David Siegel, CEO and co-founder at Glide, was […] Continue reading Glide helps you build mobile apps from a spreadsheet without coding→

Carbonite to acquire endpoint security company Webroot for $618.5M

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Carbonite, the online backup and recovery company based in Boston, announced late yesterday that it will be acquiring Webroot, an endpoint security vendor, for $618.5 million in cash. The company believes that by combining its cloud backup service with Webroot’s endpoint security tools, it will give customers a more complete solution. Webroot’s history actually predates the […] Continue reading Carbonite to acquire endpoint security company Webroot for $618.5M→

Someone could scoop up Slack before it IPOs

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Earlier this week, Slack announced that it has filed the paperwork to go public at some point later this year. The big question is, will the company exit into the public markets as expected, or will one of the technology giants swoop in at the last minute with buckets of cash and take them off […] Continue reading Someone could scoop up Slack before it IPOs→

Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition

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With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions. AI has helped automate some of that, but Gong.io wants to take it even further using voice recognition to capture every word of every interaction. Today, it got a $40M Series B investment. […] Continue reading Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition→

Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough

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I remember watching MIT professor Andrew McAfee years ago telling stories about the importance of data over gut feeling, whether it was predicting successful wines or making sound business decisions. We have been hearing about big data and data-driven decision making for so long, you would think it has become hardened into our largest organizations […] Continue reading Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough→