‘Smokey Bear’ of cloud hosting FireHost protects enterprise from hacker fires

Secure cloud hosting company FireHost raised $10 million in its third round of financing.

Zendesk unveils a new app and a new, huge chunk of VC change

Zendesk is now bringing a consumer-y app to its enterprise customers -- and a $60 million check to its bank account. It's a win-win-win!

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff drops bomb on Box and Okta

Marc Benioff announces two new Salesforce tools that directly challenge enterprise products Box and Okta

GoodData CEO throws cold water on the ‘big data’ hype, says ‘we’re still data-bankrupt!’

You'll often hear "Big Data" startups promising to help companies unlock the true value of their data, but are they delivering?

AppFirst gives sales, ops, and IT one unified dashboard for business visibility

Sports fans typically know much more about the performance of their favorite team and how well its key players are performance than execs know about the internal processes of their IT infrastructure ... and how they impact profitability.

That's what the new DevOps Dashboard from AppFirst is built to solve.

Guru behind Google Voice debuts hot teleconference startup

Teleconferencing is broken, and Craig Walker wants to be the man to change that. Today, Uberconference, a free audio conferencing service, has announced the public launch of its beta, and a new premium service for business users.

HootSuite’s Ryan Holmes on Seesmic: Price will vary; Loic staying, maybe; expect more acquisitions

Last night we broke the news that HootSuite, the social media management solution for companies, acquired Loic Le Meur's often-pivoting Seesmic. Today I spoke with Ryan Holmes about the acquisition and about the future of the social media management space.

FuzeBox presents sleeker, sexier Ignite 2.0 to improve online meetings (exclusive)

Real-time video conferencing application FuzeBox releases Ignite 2.0.

Announcing the CloudBeat 2012 Innovation Showdown

Calling all cloud fanatics! Nominations are open for our Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of the CloudBeat 2012 conference (Nov. 28-29) at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City.

Google brings cheaper batch processing to BigQuery, its ‘big data’ offering

Google announced two new user-friendly features for its popular BigQuery application with an aim to make it easier and cheaper for businesses to analyze huge data-sets.

Yammer and Salesforce are now tracking your office banter

Following in Yammer's footsteps, Salesforce announced an integration to monitor office conversations on Chatter, its enterprise social network.

Business is booming: KPCB will put up $100M for enterprise-focused startups

Major VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers will invest more than $100 million in new enterprise-facing startups.

MobileSpaces nabs $3M to keep employee’s personal data under lock and key

MobileSpaces pulls in $3 million from Accel Partners to scale its mobile workspace, which segregates personal and professional applications, and keeps your data safe.

Ed tech startup rSmart brings in $10.75M to clear running path for higher education

Ed tech startup rSmart took $10.75 million for its software designed for to help institutions of higher education run more effectively.

Google Docs pioneer Sam Schillace joins Box as VP of Engineering

Today, I found myself privy to the first meeting between Box's CEO, Aaron Levie, and his new vice president of engineering, Sam Schillace.

Microsoft isn’t slowing Yammer down: Major update adds Hootsuite integration, IM, & more

When Microsoft bought Yammer for $1.2 billion, concerns arose it might lose some of innovative spirit. But today Yammer has pushed back with several big updates, including a new "inbox" that prioritizes conversations, a real-time messaging interface, and integrations with Hootsuite and seven other services.

Boundary announces free service, speedier monitoring for public and private clouds

Boundary, a San Francisco-based startup developing a networking monitoring solution, has introduced some new capabilities for dev-ops to track traffic in real-time on cloud-based applications.