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With the end of Workplace, it’s fair to wonder if Meta was ever serious about the enterprise
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer…
It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, and the…
Harness isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised…
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SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing
SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it’s profitable, not just because it’s right.
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for…
A new sculpture going live on Wednesday in the Flatiron South Public Plaza in New York is not your typical artwork. It combines technology, sociology, anthropology and art to let…
For the founders of Atlan, a data governance startup, data has always been at the heart of what they do, even before they launched the company. In fact, co-founders Prukalpa…
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Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle
The numbers are in, and the cloud infrastructure market grew at a brisk pace this quarter driven by increasing interest in generative AI.
It’s hard for early-stage founders to say no to revenue from a large customer, whose needs might not align with the broader customer base.
It’s not building any startup, but building a defensible AI startup presents its own set of unique challenges.
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With $175M in new funding, Island is putting the browser at the center of enterprise security
When a company raises $175M at a $3B valuation, it gets your attention. When that startup is a browser company, all the more.
As data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data-wrangling skills, has grown in importance. The founders of Seam, an…
When Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour were working together at Airbnb on the company’s data team, they had to deal with data spread across a variety of sources, and that…
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The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems
At a quick glance, the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not.
With HashiCorp, Big Blue gets a set of cloud lifecycle management and security tools, and a company that is growing considerably faster than any of IBM’s other businesses.
As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of…
Nothing gets us going like a big M&A rumor, and history has shown where there’s smoke there has often been fire — but that’s not always the case. Last week…
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Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing
Amid rumors that Salesforce is interested in buying Informatica, investors aren’t taking kindly to the potential pairing.
NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from Portworx, a cloud-native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. …
IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years,…
It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s.…
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Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next
Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the context of generative AI, of course.
All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las…
Agent can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an automated manner.
The new AI meetings and messaging add-on takes notes for you, provides meeting summaries and translates content into 69 languages.
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Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would
During the pandemic, many workers discovered they liked working from home, but CEOs want them in the office, and it’s created tension.
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When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success
Boston has a long history of startups, fueled by the many colleges in the area, helping to feed a successful startup ecosystem.
Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33…
One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft.…
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The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees
As a number of factors come into play, like the reality of a multi-cloud world and a stricter regulatory environment, companies are beginning to see the error in their ways.
