Ron Miller

Over the years, we’ve seen a bunch of attempts to bring cloud-like functionality to the private data center from Mesosphere to OpenStack along with lots of other hardware and software experiments that were developed with the idea of putting compute to work in a way that behaves like...

Companies could still be grappling with lower demand In January, nearly 90,000 tech workers were laid off. By September that number had dipped to under 5,000, suggesting that perhaps massive layoffs were mercifully over, and we could look ahead to a brighter 2024 with improving economic conditions. Then came...

Monday.com launched more than a decade ago looking to help companies build a highly flexible set of business tools like CRM, marketing, operations and HR, built in customized ways you simply couldn’t find out of the box. It learned that companies not only liked that flexibility, but they...

If you follow sports even a little, you know the influence of analytics and data has changed the way sports works. As teams build bigger and bigger analytics departments, and data becomes tied to on- and off-field decision making, how do teams deal with the growing amount of...

Atlassian announced this morning that it is acquiring video messaging service Loom for $975 million, the same company that had a $1.53 billion valuation in May 2021 when it announced a $130 million Series C. That was when companies were still thinking about all work being cloud-based and...

Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks that happened this past weekend in the country. The company is employing AI to design lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) with the goal of creating...

Weeks after upsetting developers with a proposed runtime fee, only to quickly backtrack on the idea, Unity announced today that CEO John Riccitiello was stepping down from his multiple roles as president, CEO and board chair, going from having a ton of responsibility to having a lot of...

Last year was a tough one for Zendesk, with several months of uncertainty. But the company appears to have emerged from that instability, none the worse for wear, with a new private equity owner and a fresh CEO to lead it into its next phase. The customer service software...

OneTrust has been raising money by the bushel since it was founded in 2016, raising a $200 million Series A in July 2019, a $210 million Series B in February 2020 and a $300 million Series C in December 2020. Those rounds came with valuations of $1.3 billion,...

The Apptio acquisition is looking even more critical to IBM’s future success Ron Miller Alex Wilhelm 7 hours IBM reported earnings this week, and if we’re being honest, the results were rather uninspiring. The company generated revenue of around $15.5 billion, down a disappointing 0.4% from its year-ago result. However, even inside...