For startups, how many clouds to use may be the wrong question to ask
Should early-stage startups pursue a single-cloud, multicloud or on-prem strategy when just starting out?
Well, the simple answer to that question is just one cloud, but in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, redundancy has become sexy again: Who wants to be dependent on a single provider
Google challenger Neeva gives up on consumer search, goes all in on AI and the enterprise
Challenger search engine Neeva is no more, in its current guise at least, as the Mountain View, California-based company revealed that it’s winding down its consumer business.
Founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan wrote in a blog post yesterday that they had faced significant chal
Improving developer experience is now a priority
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Internal developer portals are a welcome tool to alleviate the cognitive load of developers, a
What you should know about internal developer portals
Helping developers do more in less time has become a priority for organizations. As the ambit of SaaS sprawls ever wider and DevOps grows more popular, companies are discovering that they need to alleviate the cognitive load on developers, who often have to be aware of all the microservices availab
Restaurant365 gobbles up $135M to supersize its software for the food service industry
The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wider restaurant industry. Now, a startup that’s building technology to serve that sector announced a supersized round of funding to nourish its growth.
Restaurant365, which de
Alibaba’s cloud spinoff may serve as a good yardstick to value other major players
Chinese technology giant Alibaba is shaking up its corporate structure in a series of moves that will allow large pieces of its business to raise capital and potentially even go public.
That may not be a bad idea, when you consider that the conglomerate’s revenue rose a middling 2% in Q1 2023
1Password’s new service lets businesses quickly adopt passkeys
Password manager 1Password today launched a new service, Passage by 1Password, that’s designed to allow businesses to bud passkey authentication into their apps and websites without having to maintain their own security infrastructure.
The rollout signals 1Password's expansion beyond cred
AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud business in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up the AWS infrastructure in the key overseas market at a time when it has pared back several other services in the region.
The U.S. giant, which earlier in
Traefik Labs launches Traefik Hub, a Kubernetes-native API management service
Traefik today announced the general availability of Traefik Hub, its cloud-native API management solution for publishing, securing and managing APIs. Founded in 2016 by Emile Vauge, Traefik Labs had an early focus on its open source projects: Traefik Proxy and Mesh — a cloud-native reverse-pr
Union AI raises $19.1M Series A to simplify AI and data workflows with Flyte
Union AI, a Bellevue, Washington–based open source startup that helps businesses build and orchestrate their AI and data workflows with the help of a cloud-native automation platform, today announced that it has raised a $19.1 million Series A round from NEA and Nava Ventures. The company also an
Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok
"speakable-summary" style="padding-left: 40px;">After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware in 2018. Both left VMware in 2022 and McLuckie went
Entro raises $6M for its end-to-end secrets security solution
Entro, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is building a security platform that helps enterprises manage and protect their secrets like account credentials, certificates and API keys, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by StageOne Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures. A number of a
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems to secure buildings and other physical spaces — are doubling down on their businesses… quite literally.
The pair of U.S. companies —
Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation
Meta’s grand experiment in building an enterprise-ready customer service platform has come to a close: The parent of Facebook has officially spun out Kustomer, the CRM startup it acquired last year for around $1 billion.
The new entity is starting life with a new infusion of $60 million from