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With new funding, Honeycomb.io CEO sees observability taking off
Full-stack observability provider Honeycomb.io has raised $50 million in Series D funding. The round was led by venture capital firm Headline, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Storm Ventures and Industry Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate Honeycomb’s growth and expand its product offerings, and the company plans to ...
Planting a flag in hyperautomation, UiPath dominates the RPA convo at live event
The future of automation is a hot topic, especially now that “work-from-home” — forced onto most businesses as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — has permanently shifted the enterprise culture. UiPath Inc., a global leader in the robotic process automation market, is fighting to be the top RPA software provider. The company provides a ...
Watch live: AWS Summit Online goes global as cloud proves vital for COVID-19 business survival
The AWS Summit in San Francisco has gone virtual as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. To adjust to current stay-at-home and social-distancing recommendations, Amazon Web Services Inc. has evolved its annual event, now called AWS Summit Online, to allow technologists and the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate and learn through free online sessions. ...
The new tech-innovation cocktail: Data, machine learning, and cloud
Moore’s Law no longer drives innovation in the IT and technology industry. Today, tech advances come from a combination of data, machine intelligence, and the cloud, according to Dave Vellante (@dvellante), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. “We’ve amassed this huge amount of data that’s growing at a nonlinear rate,” Vellante stated. “So, ...
Independent DevOps platform necessary for evolving multicloud world
Are the days of operating in a single cloud over? As an increasing number of organizations demand multicloud services to avoid vendor lock-in and maximize computing performance, it seems that single-cloud environments are on the way out. “It’s no longer that you pick one cloud and that’s where everything’s going to run,” said Brendan O’Leary ...
Q&A: Business Value Engineering takes IFS beyond business case
Enterprise resource planning company IFS AB thrives on collaboration and customer success stories. The company works with clients to define the return that maps to their business, advocating that as the metrics for return on investment evolve, they should be defined by the customer. “The very first question [you ask the customer] is, fundamentally, what ...
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Q&A: The ‘predictive Holy Grail’ solves digital-experience dilemma
In an always-on world, organizations must deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers or risk losing business. To boost digital operations and manage customer experiences, many companies rely on incident-response software provided by vendors like digital ops and incident management provider PagerDuty Inc. PagerDuty made some early bets on cloud, DevOps and automation after ...
Northern Trust reveals cloud journey challenges, benefits
As businesses around the world continue to scale more quickly as a result of evolving enterprise technology, the challenges surrounding that growth are numerous. Management must effectively handle an evolving company culture, cash-flow management, a tech learning gap, and other roadblocks. Northern Trust Corp., a 125-plus-year-old global financial services firm that primarily works with asset ...
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VC Guy Kawasaki contemplates fringe ideas, open source and social
As today’s technological culture permeates society, tech innovations have proven to be good and bad. From the current Facebook personal data breach fiasco — a topic of conversation as Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress — to the explosion of social media and mobile gadgets in all corners of civilization, some wonder if it’s too late to put the tech genie back ...
Cisco creates ‘pull power’ in DevOps, IoT worlds
As Cisco Systems Inc. invests heavily in “internet of things,” including some key acquisitions and new software-defined wide area network products based on its Meraki and Viptela technologies, the company seeks to retain its leadership position in the collaboration market. But what are Cisco’s motives in attracting developers to its IoT hardware offerings, and how does ...