Alex Williams

Part of the problem with any powerful technology is how it is perceived. It might be something that is too early for its time or it may just need those…

Billionaire jewelry king Fred Mouawad has a different take on the world of task management. Most providers have some play on keeping a list or offer a schedule of reminders.…

Implisit has raised $3.3 million from Gemini Israel Ventures for its self-learning platform that mines CRM data to help sales people close more deals and cut manual data entry.

Garantia Data is now Redis Labs, a name change that reflect its roots as a database provider that uses the Redis open-source technology, a popular NoSQL database used by developers…

Sonatype has updated its technology to protect software developers from using rogue open-source components that could be used to attack any kind of software, including an app for your phone or…

Chartio has raised $2.2 million from Avalon Ventures and added some new features to its data visualization platform that blends data sets and does complex calculations. Chartio had previously raised…

The shift to scale out architectures and an app-centric culture has turned out well for Docker and its lightweight open-source “container” technology designed for developers to quickly move code to…

Savvis has a new name to give it deeper identity with CenturyLink, which acquired the hosting company in 2011. It will now be called Century Link Technology Solutions and will…

Zapier, a platform for connecting apps to automate tasks, has been constrained to some extent by the limitations for integrating third-party services. That has changed with Zapier’s update to its…

Google Cloud Storage has had the capability to run Hadoop so developers can do advanced analytics on its distributed computing platform. Today, Google is attempting to simplify the process with a…

Nutanix has raised $101 million in a Series D round and is boasting of a $1 billion market capitalization. But the fast-growing enterprise storage company is not planning to pursue…

Apigee, an API management company, has acquired InsightsOne for its predictive analytics technology. With InsightsOne, Apigee will have a platform that helps companies find patterns in multiple data sources to,…

Microsoft has acquired Parature, a cusiomer service SaaS provider, for $100 million, according to sources close to the deal. The Parature acquisition gives Microsoft Dynamics, its CRM platform, a world-class self-service…

Amazon Kinesis, the company’s new data streaming analytics platform, is now in public beta, allowing developers to build real-time apps without having to manage the complexity of multiple clusters. But…

The 2600hz team took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt today, launching its service for disrupting the mobile telecommunications industry by opening its infrastructure through a set of open APIs that…

Datameer, like a lot of companies, is trying to make its data-analytics platform accessible to people who are not data scientists. It’s part of a growing trend to ease the…

Google is broadening its reach into the mobile app development world today through a partnership with Kinvey, which will provide an enterprise backend-as-a-service (BaaS) layer on top of Google App Engine. With Kinvey,…

Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd…

InsideSales.com has raised $4 million from Hummer Winblad in a Series A Round that the company will use to grow its big data analytics sales force automation (SFO) technology. Joining in…