Is the Cloud Strategy Delivering for IBM?

IBM (Nasdaq: IBM) delivered a surprising performance for its fourth quarter. Not only did the company manage to surpass market expectations, but also delivered a y-o-y growth in revenue – a first for it in the last six quarters.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Rajaraman of rocketship.vc (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the preferred check size for your fund? Anand Rajaraman: We write about $2 million to $3 million checks, which means that we could co-lead in the US. In foreign geographies, we might even be the lead. In a B round, we follow.

Sumo Logic in no Rush to List

According to an IDC research report, worldwide revenues for Big Data and business analytics solutions grew 12% to $189.1 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at 13% CAGR to $274.3 billion by 2022. Redwood City-based Sumo Logic is a Unicorn in the market.

Rendezvous Online Recording: December 17, 2019

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: Rendezvous Online with Sramana Mitra 12.17.19

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Rajaraman of rocketship.vc (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the fund size of rocketship.vc? Anand Rajaraman: We are on fund two. It’s $120 million. Fund one was a $40 million fund. That’s fully deployed. We started investing fund one around late 2015. We have about 30 odd companies in the portfolio. We’ve just started deploying fund two.

Thursday, January 23 – 469th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 469th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 23, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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Smartsheet Focuses on Marketing Collaboration

According to a Markets and Markets report, the global enterprise collaboration market is expected to grow 9% over the year to $48.1 billion by 2024 from $31 billion in 2019. Last month, Seattle-based Smartsheet (Nasdaq: SMAR) announced its third quarter results that surpassed market expectations.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Portshift CEO Ran Ilany (Part 2)

Ran Ilany: The second thing that we’re doing is authenticating the communication of those workloads. That is to say, the actual identity of the workload is injected into the traffic stream so that every connection would be, first and foremost, authenticated and would then be authorized. The whole notion here is moving from IP port

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