Jonathan Vanian covers all things enterprise from San Francisco, with a focus on startups. Before joining Gigaom, he was an editor for Better Software Magazine and StickyMinds. Additionally, he has worked as a reporter for a legal affairs newspaper, freelanced for a business journal in Santa Barbara, interned at the Center for Investigative Reporting, and was an editorial fellow at Salon. Outside of work, Jonathan enjoys cooking up chili, making pizza, and listening to records.
A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are, according to a recently published research paper. The researchers’… Read more »
Heroku, the Salesforce-owned company that powers the application-development process of hot startups like Lyft and Upworthy, announced a new product line Thursday called Heroku Enterprise. It’s geared for big companies that… Read more »
IT monitoring-specialist ScienceLogic just landed $43 million in a Series D funding round, which will give it more resources as it continues to advocate for the hybrid cloud. The startup now… Read more »
Sqrrl, the big data startup whose founders used to work for the NSA, plans to announce Thursday that it is shifting its focus to cyber security with a new release of… Read more »
Pinterest shed more light on how the social scrapbook and visual discovery service analyzes data in real time, it said in a blog post on Wednesday, also revealing details about how… Read more »
Although we’re still a ways away from seeing the data deluge that’s sure to come as the internet of things becomes more mainstream, that doesn’t mean storage startups aren’t busy creating… Read more »
It’s only been seven months since Twitter released its Answers tool, which was designed to provide users with mobile application analytics. But since that time, Twitter now sees roughly five billion… Read more »
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data breaches for… Read more »
Quantum computing is still in its infancy, even though the idea of a quantum computer was developed some thirty years ago. But there are a whole load of pioneering organizations (like… Read more »
New Relic’s first earnings report since going public last December seemed to please investors as the application-performance and analytics company took in $29 million in revenue in what it considers its… Read more »