Salesforce at 20 offers lessons for startup success

Salesforce is celebrating its 20th anniversary today. The company that was once a tiny irritant going after giants in the 1990s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) market, such as Oracle and Siebel Systems, has grown into full-fledged SaaS powerhouse. With an annual run rate exceeding $14 billion, it is by far the most successful pure cloud […] Continue reading Salesforce at 20 offers lessons for startup success

BetterCloud can now manage any SaaS application

BetterCloud began life as a way to provide an operations layer for G Suite. More recently, after a platform overhaul, it began layering on a handful of other SaaS applications. Today, the company announced, it is now possible to add any SaaS application to its operations dashboard and monitor usage across applications via an API. […] Continue reading BetterCloud can now manage any SaaS application

Security Risks Created by SaaS (They Might Not Be What You Expect)

Software as a service (SaaS) is amazing, but it has created an entirely new set of challenges for security professionals. Although security leaders generally do deep diligence on vendors before putting sensitive data such as trade secrets and PII into… Continue reading Security Risks Created by SaaS (They Might Not Be What You Expect)

SaaS Endpoint Management

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has revolutionized the way IT organizations do business, and just about every traditional IT resource or solution can be delivered as a cloud-based service. Yet, IT admins still face numerous challenges with managing modern… Continue reading SaaS Endpoint Management

SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

SAP announced today at its Sapphire customer conference it was making the SAP Leonardo Blockchain service generally available. The latter is a cloud service to help companies build applications based on digital ledger-style technology. Gil Perez, senior vice president for product and innovation and head of digital customer initiatives at SAP, says most of the […] Continue reading SAP latest enterprise player to offer cloud blockchain service

Threat X rakes in $8.2 million in Series A funding round

Threat X, a Denver-based firewall solutions company, has landed $8.2 million in venture capital funding, the company announced on Wednesday. Threat X provides a software-as-a-service web application firewall (WAF). Its cloud-based threat detection software is deployed on customers’ web applications, where it finds and eliminates threats. The company says its services are highly adaptable to evolving network landscapes, complicated by the mixture of hybrid cloud, web application and legacy environments, as well as APIs for the web, mobile and internet of things. “The attack surface is very broad,” CEO Brett Settle told CyberScoop. “You’ve got the internet and you’ve got exposure now to virtually anyone in the world that can access your applications. And yet more and more companies are putting more of their business applications either in the cloud or exposing those capabilities to the cloud.” In a crowded marketplace for WAF services, Settle says what makes Threat X unique its kill-chain based approach. In practice, […]

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JumpCloud Ranked #15 on SaaS 1000 for Q1 2018!

The SaaS 1000 list ranks the fastest growing Software-as-a-Service companies based on employee growth. Founded by Tom Blue, SaaS 1000 uses an algorithm to estimate employee growth and rank the…
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SaaS Device Management

Device management is one of the core, day-to-day tasks for an IT organization. As much as innovations like cloud computing, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and automatic patching are aimed…
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SaaS Device Management

Device management is one of the core, day-to-day tasks for an IT organization. As much as innovations like cloud computing, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), and automatic patching are aimed…
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SaaS Password Management

Controlling identities can be painful in the modern era of IT. In the past, because everything was on-prem, Microsoft Active Directory® could manage an organization’s passwords, and it allowed there…
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