Monday May 20, 2024

Microsoft Dynamics Corporate VP Bob Stutz Steps Down

 In a stunner today, Microsoft Corporate VP Bob Stutz stepped down from his job running Microsoft Dynamics CRM. MSDynamicsWorld broke the story, and Microsoft has confirmed the news in a statement. Bob Stutz will be leaving Microsoft and will take a well-deserved break.  Over the past 3.5 years, Bob and his team have transformed Dynamics CRM […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Places A Big Bet On Containers

 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is launching a slew of updates and new products related to containers at Docker’s developer conference in Barcelona today. Together, all of these amount to a big bet on containers on HPE’s part. “We view containers as a disruptive technology,” HPE’s acting VP in charge of the company’s incubator partners and strategic… […]

At GitHub You Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Office, But There Is A Nice One If You Do

 If you want to work for GitHub, the software development collaboration hub built on the open source Git project, you have to be independent and able to work outside the confines of what most organizations would consider normal operational guidelines. You don’t have to come to the office. In fact, you are encouraged to work […]

Ericsson + Cisco Ink Strategic Deal Projected To Bring Each $1B More In Sales By 2018

 It’s not another massive enterprise merger, but two of the biggest companies whose equipment and technology underpin a lot of our communications networks today are now teaming up. Ericsson and Cisco have announced a strategic partnership, in which the two will collaborate on sales and products covering virtually the whole range of their respective businesses. This will include… Read […]

New Relic Now Lets Developers Dive Deeper Into Their Analytics

 New Relic is launching a new analytics component for its application and server monitoring suite today that allows developers to drill even deeper into the data their code (and users) generate. The New Relic Software Analytics Cloud is now available to all paying New Relic customers. New Relic’s VP of product management Patrick Lightbody told […]

Box’s Head Of PR Ashley Mayer To Exit For New Job At Social Capital

 Tonight Ashley Mayer who runs PR at Box, announced in a Medium post that she was leaving the company after six years for a new job running brand and talent at Social Capital. Mayer, who went to high school with the co-founders, started at Box in 2009 after answering a query on her Facebook page […]

Here’s What Is Next For Windows 10

 Microsoft has a big Windows 10 boost out today. The company is calling it the “first major update” to Windows 10 for both normal PCs and tablets. At its most basic, Microsoft wants to better position Windows 10 — its new operating system — for both consumers and enterprise clients. If it fails to find adoption […]

EventBoard, A Smart Conference Room Booking Startup, Raises $6.5M

 Eventboard, a company that provides software to make conference rooms more efficient, may be based in Salt Lake City, Utah, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t found its way into the guts of Silicon Valley. “We’re right downtown, we have a lot of presence in Silicon Valley and San Francisco specifically, but we’re building a […]

HackerOne Snags Former HP Exec Mårten Mickos As CEO

 HackerOne, the bug bounty platform, announced today that it has hired Mårten Mickos as CEO. He was formerly an HP executive and CEO at Eucalyptus and MySQL. Mickos replaces co-founder Merijn Terheggen who will continue to work on key strategic directions for the organization while Mickos takes over the day-to-day running of the company It’s been […]

Gmail, We Need To Talk

 Dear Gmail: Two years ago, you launched an ambitious endeavor with Schema.org to bring a new level of richness to email. Schema.org allowed senders to embed rich meta data in email that allowed any modern email client, not just Gmail, to present actionable items within email. It felt like Gmail was taking the lead in […]