Back in 2013, YouSendIt changed its name to Hightail because it had evolved beyond its original file-sharing roots. Today, the core of the service is still about sharing files, but with a greater focus on professional use. To emphasize this, the company is officially launching Hightail Spaces out of beta today, a new tool that wants be […]
Posted on October 17th, 2015 by admin
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This morning at Asana’s San Francisco headquarters, the startup announced a new version of its product, a new brand — logo — and, happily, some metrics about its growth. As you will recall, the startup picked up a new Head of Business from Google on Monday, announcing at the same time that it has expanded its […]
Posted on October 1st, 2015 by admin
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Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service sits between managing the Spark data processing engine or Hadoop framework directly on virtual machines and a fully managed service like Cloud Dataflow, which lets you orchestrate your data pipelines on […]
Posted on September 24th, 2015 by admin
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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems. Organization analytics is something Microsoft itself has been looking at, too, and its Delve organizational analytics service is currently in preview and scheduled for… Read More Tweet […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2015 by admin
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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company’s corporate communications systems. Organization analytics is something Microsoft itself has been looking at, too, and its Delve organizational analytics service is currently in preview and scheduled for… Read More Tweet […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2015 by admin
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Narvar, a startup that enables companies to better engage with customers after online purchases, said it has raised $10 million. Narvar provides companies with software that improves the post-purchase experience. That can include a better interface when it comes to shipping, more detailed text updates, and then of course options to return products and buy new […]
Posted on August 27th, 2015 by admin
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Platform9, a service that aims to make it easier for businesses to launch an OpenStack private cloud on their existing servers, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures and with participation from previous investor Redpoint Ventures. This round brings the company’s total funding to $14.5 […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2015 by admin
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As a cloud identity management service, Okta collects tons of data about how its customers use other cloud products. Today it released its first Okta Business @ Work Report. Among the many compelling findings was that Microsoft’s Office 365 was the favorite cloud service overall so far this year. Okta is not alone in using the data it […]
Posted on August 20th, 2015 by admin
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Box announced today that it was hiring former EMC executive Jeetu Patel to head its platform business. Patel will have the title senior vice president of platform and chief strategy officer. His primary responsibility will be building out the Box Developer Edition product, which enables developers to take advantage of services built on the Box platform to create applications without… Read More […]
Posted on August 13th, 2015 by admin
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Work management solution Workfront (previously known as AtTask) today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series E funding round led by growth equity firm JMI Equity, which also previously led the company’s $38 million Series D round last year. Greenspring Global Partners and Atlas Peak also participated in this round. The company has […]
Posted on August 5th, 2015 by admin
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