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.
It might be a bit more difficult for hackers to launch coordinated attacks against several different companies at the same time thanks to a new collaborative threat-detection framework by Facebook called… Read more »
GoDaddy is continuing its effort to upgrade its infrastructure into something more modern by acquiring Nodejitsu, a Node.js-centric platform-as-a-service provider, the web-hosting company announced today. GoDaddy did not disclose the financial… Read more »
It’s only been a few weeks since Box went public, but the file-sync company with a work-collaboration bent is rolling out a new encryption-key feature to entice big-name companies like the… Read more »
Node.js, the popular server-side JavaScript framework, is getting its own open-source foundation and will no longer be governed by Joyent, the cloud-infrastructure provider plans to announce on Tuesday. It should take… Read more »
A new Israeli-based cyber-security incubator called Team8 plans to announce its launch on Tuesday and is banking that its ties to the Israeli military will give its startups a competitive edge… Read more »
VMware’s Tony Scott has been chosen to become the next U.S. chief information officer, according to a White House announcement on Thursday. Scott will follow in the footsteps of previous U.S… Read more »
In an agile world where developers are expected to churn out new application features on what can often times be a weekly basis, it can be really hard for engineers to… Read more »
Big data startup ClusterHQ sees a lot of opportunity in capitalizing on container and database technology and, with a $12 million series A funding round that the company plans to announce… Read more »
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is partnering up with Telx to establish a new internet-access point inside Telx’s NYC2 data center, according to an announcement by the companies. The new point… Read more »
You can add another startup to the growing list of software-defined storage startups getting some love from investors in recent month. Seattle-based Qumulo plans to announce on Wednesday that it took… Read more »