Category Archives: Computing

Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform

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Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […] Continue reading Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform→

Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa

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Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and, in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acquisitions, too. As the company today announced, it has acquired Tel Aviv-based NooBaa, an early-stage startup that helps enterprises manage […] Continue reading Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa→

Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM

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With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business. Though the acquisition of Red Hat  is by no means a guaranteed victory for the Armonk, N.Y.-based computing company that has had more downs than ups over the five years, it seems […] Continue reading Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM→

GitHub gets a new and improved Jira Software Cloud integration

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Atlassian’s Jira has become a standard for managing large software projects in many companies. Many of those same companies also use GitHub as their source code repository and, unsurprisingly, there has long been an official way to integrate the two. That old way, however, was often slow, limited in its capabilities and unable to cope […] Continue reading GitHub gets a new and improved Jira Software Cloud integration→

Microsoft wants to put your data in a box

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AWS has its Snowball (and Snowmobile truck), Google Cloud has its data transfer appliance and Microsoft has its Azure Data Box. All of these are physical appliances that allow enterprises to ship lots of data to the cloud by uploading it into these machines and then shipping them to the cloud. Microsoft’s Azure Data Box […] Continue reading Microsoft wants to put your data in a box→

Google’s Cloud Memorystore for Redis is now generally available

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After five months in public beta, Google today announced that its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, its fully managed in-memory data store, is now generally available. The service, which is fully compatible with the Redis protocol, promises to offer sub-millisecond responses for applications that need to use in-memory caching. And because of its compatibility with Redis, developers […] Continue reading Google’s Cloud Memorystore for Redis is now generally available→

GitLab raises $100M

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GitLab, the developer service that aims to offer a full lifecycle DevOps platform, today announced that it has raised a $100 million Series D funding round at a valuation of $1.1 billion. The round was led by Iconiq. As GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij told me, this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $145.5 million, will […] Continue reading GitLab raises $100M→

PagerDuty raises $90M to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night

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PagerDuty, the popular service that helps businesses monitor their tech stacks, manage incidents and alert engineers when things go sideways, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series D round at a valuation of $1.3 billion. With this, PagerDuty, which was founded in 2009, has now raised well over $170 million. The round […] Continue reading PagerDuty raises $90M to wake up more engineers in the middle of the night→

Google adds a bunch of rugged devices to its Android Enterprise Recommended program

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Rugged smartphones, the kind of devices that business can give to their employees who work in harsh environments, are a bit of a specialty market. Few consumers, after all, choose their smartphones based on how well they survive six-foot drops. But there is definitely a market there, and IDC currently expects that the market for […] Continue reading Google adds a bunch of rugged devices to its Android Enterprise Recommended program→

Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure

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Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover the […] Continue reading Google steps back from running the Kubernetes infrastructure→