Ron Miller

Enterprise Reporter, TechCrunch

Ron Miller has been writing about the enterprise at TechCrunch since 2014.

Previously, he was a long-time Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine. Past regular gigs included CITEworld, DaniWeb, TechTarget, Internet Evolution and FierceContentManagement.

Disclosures:

Ron was formerly corporate blogger for Intronis where he wrote once weekly on IT issues. He has contributed to various corporate blogs in the past including Ness, Novell and the IBM Mid-market Blogger Program.

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When Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour were working together at Airbnb on the company’s data team, they had to deal with data spread across a variety of sources, and that…

A pair of Airbnb alums is bringing intelligence and automation to data protection

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The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems

At a quick glance, the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not.

10:39 am PDT • April 26, 2024
The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems

With HashiCorp, Big Blue gets a set of cloud lifecycle management and security tools, and a company that is growing considerably faster than any of IBM’s other businesses.

IBM moves deeper into hybrid cloud management with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition

As the notion of the AI agent begins to take hold, and more tasks will be completed without a human involved, it is going to require a new kind of…

Anon is building an automated authentication layer for the GenAI age

Nothing gets us going like a big M&A rumor, and history has shown where there’s smoke there has often been fire — but that’s not always the case. Last week…

Informatica makes a point to say it’s not for sale — to Salesforce or anyone else

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Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing

Amid rumors that Salesforce is interested in buying Informatica, investors aren’t taking kindly to the potential pairing.

10:09 am PDT • April 19, 2024
Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing

NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from Portworx, a cloud-native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. …

NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud-native environments

IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years,…

BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps

It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s.…

Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters

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Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the context of generative AI, of course.

8:00 am PDT • April 13, 2024
Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las…

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

Agent can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an automated manner.

With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation

The new AI meetings and messaging add-on takes notes for you, provides meeting summaries and translates content into 69 languages.

Google looks to monetize AI with two new $10 Workspace add-ons

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Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would

During the pandemic, many workers discovered they liked working from home, but CEOs want them in the office, and it’s created tension.

8:00 am PDT • April 7, 2024
Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would

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When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success

Boston has a long history of startups, fueled by the many colleges in the area, helping to feed a successful startup ecosystem.

10:07 am PDT • April 6, 2024
When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success

Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33…

As deal rumors fly, Alphabet and HubSpot would be a strange pairing

One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft.…

As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think

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The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

As a number of factors come into play, like the reality of a multi-cloud world and a stricter regulatory environment, companies are beginning to see the error in their ways.

9:00 am PDT • March 31, 2024
The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and…

Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure

Canva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative tools company based in the U.K. Bloomberg reported that the deal…

With Affinity acquisition, Canva should be able to compete better with Adobe’s creative tools

Just about everyone is trying to get a piece of the generative AI action these days. While the majority of the focus remains on the model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic…

Fireworks.ai open source API puts generative AI in reach of any developer

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Thoras.ai founders Nilo Rahmani and Jennifer Rahmani weren’t even a twinkle in their parents’ eyes, but their parents were forced to flee…

Thoras.ai automates resource allocation for Kubernetes workloads

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Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

The question is whether Nvidia can sustain that growth to become a long-term revenue powerhouse like AWS has become for Amazon.

8:00 am PDT • March 24, 2024
Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

Every enterprise software company out there is working to bring more workflow automation and AI to the platform. ServiceNow has been on this journey for some time now, and given…

ServiceNow is developing AI through mix of building, buying and partnering

TigerEye CEO Tracy Young and her husband and CTO Ralph Gootee helped build their previous startup, PlanGrid, into a $100 million ARR business before selling it to Autodesk for $875…

TigerEye founders build on prior startup experience to create business simulation tool

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Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI

The content management industry is shifting from pure management to AI and workflow automation to put the content to work.

9:00 am PDT • March 16, 2024
Aaron Levie leads Box into its third era focused on workflow automation and AI

When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing…

WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service

Zendesk has been trying to transform customer service since it launched in 2007, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company sees the industry being altered in a…

Zendesk adds flexible AI agent capabilities with Ultimate acquisition

When we examined venture investment amounts in enterprise SaaS startups, we were surprised at the top categories.

Enterprise SaaS investment makes a comeback — but not where you’d expect

MIT professor Mike Stonebraker has been at the forefront of database technology for more than 50 years. The former Turing Award winner invented the Ingres and Postgres databases and helped…

New startup from Postgres creator puts the database at heart of software stack