A small move that will have a big impact on stressed out corporate types. I’ve been following Expensify since soon after its inception back in 2008. The company has, since its founding, seldom been out of the news. Hardly…

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Scality has been a successful company pushing the software-defined storage (SDS) line. For those of you who haven’t come across SDS before, the easiest way to understand it is to think that SDS is to storage, what virtual servers…

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News from Arcserve that they’re acquiring Zetta, one of the vendors promising to bring disaster recovery, kicking and screaming, into the cloudy world. Arcserve is a data protection and availability vendor that was launched way back in the dark…

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Over on El Reg, Chris Mellor broke the news that DataGravity, the high-flying security vendor that had amassed close to $100M in funding had been sold. Details were sketchy, but it seemed the acquisition was something of a last-minute…

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Serverless Computing is being talked up, in many areas, as the future of computing. And (arguably) rightly so. As the diagram below shows, serverless is the next step in a progression of abstracting more and more of the “mechanics”…

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I was interested in the paper this morning (yes, a real life physical newspaper, but you can link to the article here) about a new diversity initiative from Simplicity. Simplicity is an investment company that specializes in providing a…

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I’m always interested in technology solutions catering to emergency situations and rescue services. Recently Everbridge, a NASDAQ listed company that offers communications and safety software specifically for emergency situations, acquired  two companies; Swedish company Svensk Krisledning, the creator of…

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A couple of decades ago I spent a little while living in Denmark and became a huge fan of Danish design. One of the exemplars of the Danish school of simple, elegant and utilitarian design is electronics design and…

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Datadog Announces Integration with AWS CodeDeploy – and deftly resolves ecosystem issues There are perennial conversations happening among those who closely watch Amazon Web Services (AWS) about the risks that third-party vendors have working within the AWS ecosystem. AWS’…

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