cloud management

F5 acquires cloud security startup Threat Stack for $68 million

Applications networking company F5 has announced it’s acquiring Threat Stack, a Boston-based cloud security and compliance startup, for $68 million. The deal, which comes months after F5 bought mult

The rise of cybersecurity debt

In software development, there is a concept called "technical debt." It describes the costs companies pay when they choose to build software the easy (or fast) way instead of the right way.

Freshworks acquires IT orchestration service Flint

Customer engagement company Freshworks today announced that it has acquired Flint, an IT orchestration and cloud management platform based in India. The acquisition will help Freshworks strengthen its

With $40 million for AuditBoard’s risk and compliance toolkit, LA’s enterprise startups notch another win

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard, a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. I

Backup service Rubrik now works natively in AWS and Azure

Rubrik, the startup that provides data management services like backup and recovery to large enterprises, is in the process of raising between $150 million and $200 million on a valuation of $1 billi

BetterCloud completes pivot from G Suite to general SaaS management

BetterCloud, the 5-year old startup that launched originally as a way to manage G Suite (nee, Google Docs), has been in the midst of a transformation — rebuilding its entire product from the gro

Luminal Closes $10M Series B Round For Its Cloud Management Service

Luminal, a Maryland-based service that that helps businesses manage their cloud deployments, today announced that is has secured a $10 million Series B round led by New Enterprise Associates. This bri

Copper.io Buys Video Platform Pandastream, The Sixth Acquisition For The Cloud Management Startup

Most startups grow by developing apps, services, platforms -- you name it. They find their way and then they lose their way. They pivot, find success or they fail. <a target="_blank" href="http:/

Cloudyn Launches Free Tool For Making Sense of Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Costs

Today cloud cost management company <a target="_blank" href="http://cloudyn.com">Cloudyn</a> announced a new free <a target="_blank" href="http://cloudyn.com/what-it-is/reserved-instance-calculator">s

BetterCloud Nabs $2.2M From Angels To Bring Better Management & Security To Google Apps

About six years ago, Google <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/get-your-people-talking.html">launched Apps for Your Domain</a>, which, for the first time, wrapped its suite of emerging cl