Collaborate Disseminate
Once upon a time, Box’s Aaron Levie was just a guy with an idea for a company: 15 years ago as a USC student, he conceived of a way to simply store and share files online. It may be hard to recall, but back then, the world was awash with thumb drives and moving files […] Continue reading Box CEO Aaron Levie says thrifty founders have more control
AppDynamics announced SAP Peak, providing technologists with a new and comprehensive set of monitoring tools that connect the most critical components of SAP landscapes with real-time business context. SAP Peak gives enterprise companies deep visibilit… Continue reading AppDynamics SAP Peak: Providing visibility into SAP environments with real-time business context
When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side of the equation. Yesterday afternoon the company announced it intends to buy another monitoring company, this time snagging internet monitoring solution […] Continue reading Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes
It’s been four years since TechCrunch published my blog post The SaaS Adventure, which introduced the concept of a “T2D3” roadmap to help SaaS companies scale — and, as an aside, explored how well my mom understood my job as an “adventure capitalist.” The piece detailed seven distinct stages that enterprise cloud startups must navigate to achieve $100 million in annualized revenue. Specifically, the post encouraged companies to “triple, triple, double, double, double” their revenue as they hit certain milestones. Continue reading T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey
Series B rounds used to be about establishing a product-market fit, but for some startups the whole process seems to be accelerating. Harness, the startup founded by AppDynamics co-founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal is one of those companies that is putting the pedal the metal with his second startup, taking his learnings and a $60 […] Continue reading Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation
Jeff Man joins Paul to talk about Ping Identity offering advanced API cyber protection, AppDynamics keeps expanding monitoring vision, eSentire announces managed endpoint defense powered by Carbon Black, and Juniper Networks signs a deal with IBMs!… Continue reading Ping, API, & eSentire – Enterprise Security Weekly #123
AppDynamics, a Cisco company, unveiled its vision for the Central Nervous System for IT, igniting a new era of AIOps. The Central Nervous System for IT will give businesses visibility, insights, and automated actions across all technology domains that … Continue reading Cisco and AppDynamics unveil vision for the Central Nervous System for IT
Two years ago this week, AppDynamics was about to IPO. Then Cisco swooped in with a big fat check for $3.7 billion and plans changed quickly. Today, as part of Cisco, the company announced it was expanding its monitoring vision across the business with a number of enhancements to its product suite. AppDynamics CEO David […] Continue reading Two years after being acquired by Cisco, AppDynamics keeps expanding monitoring vision
As companies shift to CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery), they face a problem around monitoring and fixing problems in builds that have been deployed. How do you deal with an issue after moving onto the next delivery milestone? Harness, the startup launched last year by AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal, wants to fix that with a new […] Continue reading New tool uses AI to roll back problematic continuous delivery builds automatically
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Meritech Capital, with participation from existing investor Accel. This brings Instana’s total funding to $57 million. The company, which counts the likes of […] Continue reading Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service