Cockroach Labs, the lead vendor behind the open-source Cockroach Labs SQL database, had a very busy week. On May 9, Cockroach DB was on the keynote stage at the OpenStack Summit in Boston, and on May 10, Cockroach Labs announced…
Managing the complex myriad of tasks and contractors that are required to manage facilities is not something that should be left to a simple spreadsheet. It’s a task that SaaS application vendor ServiceChannel has taken on with its Service Automation…
Engine Yard, a company that first made a name for itself as a leader in the Ruby on Rails (RoR) community, is being acquired by Crossover. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Crossover is a bit…
The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has many different processes, including one for how a new project can be incubated, mature and eventually graduate to become a Top-Level Project. Today the ASF announced that the Fineract banking platform has achieved…
Container data services vendor Portworx announced on April 5 that it has raised $20 million in a new Series B round of funding. The funding will be used by the company to grow marketing, sales and development efforts. The new…
Application Programming Interface (API) gateway vendor Mashape announced a new $18 million Series B round of funding on March 23, bringing total funding to date for the company to $26.1 million since the company was founded in 2010. The new…
Back in September 2015, Cloudius Systems pivoted, rebranding itself as ScyllaDB. When Cloudius Systems was founded, the company was all about its OSv operating system for the cloud, but as ScyllaDB, the focus is on the company’s eponymous NoSQL technology…
Confluent announced on March 7 that it has raised a new $50 million Series C round of funding to help further its effort to support and commercialize Apache Kafka streaming data technology. The funding round was led by Sequoia and…
Though Salesforce has been very successful in the CRM market, it’s certainly not the only successful CRM vendor. One of those vendors, Nimble, announced it has raised a $9M Series A round of funding to grow its CRM business. The…
Salesforce reported its fourth quarter and full 2017 fiscal year financial results on Feb. 28, showing continued growth and optimism for the future. For the quarter, Salesforce reported revenue of $2.28 billion, for a 27 percent year-over-year gain. Fully year…