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NinjaOne hits $500M ARR and launches no‑credit‑card free trial
NinjaOne, the Austin‑based unified IT operations platform, announced a free trial that requires no credit‑card, aiming to lower entry barriers for large enterprises. The cloud‑native solution bundles endpoint management, patching, remote access, backup, mobile device management, asset tracking and vulnerability detection into a single console. The company reported surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue in January 2026.
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Enterprises face a critical decision as Windows 10 support ends in October 2025, prompting many to accelerate Windows 11 migration plans. The upgrade demands comprehensive hardware inventories to meet TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and higher memory and storage thresholds, as well as extensive application compatibility testing and user training. While some organizations report smooth transitions, others encounter functionality gaps, such as CAD software losing 3‑D capabilities. Cost‑effective licensing and the rising expense of extended Windows 10 support make Windows 11 adoption increasingly inevitable.
Enterprises are seeing risk migrate from downstream system failures to upstream decision‑making as software adoption cycles shrink. Identity and access management, once a gatekeeper for core systems, now sits at the top of the IT stack, shaping workflows, roles, and...
This is a quick question with an equally quick answer— nothing. It’s just like what happened to the movie industry when the camcorder came out. Why? It’s not the camera, it’s where you point it. Traditional software companies do not...
ThoughtSpot unveiled the next‑generation Analyst Studio, adding SpotCache, a native spreadsheet interface, and an agentic data‑prep engine. SpotCache lets users cache data snapshots for unlimited queries at fixed cloud costs, while the spreadsheet UI brings Excel‑style flexibility under enterprise governance....
Adronite announced a $5 million Series A round led by Gatemore Capital Management, appointing Gatemore’s Liad Meidar as board chair. The funding will accelerate development of its AI‑powered platform that scans entire software codebases across more than 20 languages, delivering deterministic, explainable...
Agentic AI is shifting supply chain management from advisory chatbots to autonomous execution across ERP, WMS, and TMS systems. By embedding bounded autonomy, situational awareness, and direct action authority, these agents compress the detect‑decide‑act loop and reduce the costly “execution...
A Guidewire survey of over 250 London Market brokers reveals that 78% now weigh an insurer’s digital efficiency heavily when placing risk. Brokers cite outdated technology as the top barrier to modernization, with 24% highlighting legacy cores. AI-driven automation, especially...
Kong Inc. and real‑time data specialist Solace have joined Kong’s Premium Technology Partner Program to deliver a unified, governed data fabric. The partnership merges Kong’s API and AI gateway capabilities with Solace’s high‑performance event streaming, enabling a single control plane...
GameChange Solar introduced GeniusShip, a logistics platform that tags every delivery with a unique QR code, delivering component‑level data to site teams. The system provides real‑time calculations of installation zones, automatically adjusting to on‑site constraints. By improving material visibility and...
My top 7 takeaways from my chat with Adam Markowitz who built Drata from from zero to $100M ARR in 4 years (8,000+ customers): 1. Product-market fit shows in buyer urgency, not just signups. Adam's edtech startup took years to...
Microsoft will cease mainstream support for Windows 10 on October 14 2025, forcing enterprises to choose between upgrading to Windows 11, purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESU), or retiring legacy hardware. ESU offers up to three years of security patches but excludes new features and...
ProEnergy Supply (PES) has launched an AI‑driven transactional gateway that integrates directly with OpenSolar’s new Shop platform, allowing solar designers to purchase equipment in real time. The solution connects live inventory to distributors’ ERP systems, reaching over 28,000 active solar...
Google Cloud has unveiled a new networking layer that gives its air‑gapped, confidential computing environments public‑like connectivity. The feature leverages zero‑trust VPC Service Controls to keep workloads isolated while allowing them to communicate with external services as if they were...
In this episode, Adam Markowitz recounts his transition from a decade‑long edtech venture to building Drata, a compliance automation platform that quickly proved its product‑market fit as a painkiller rather than a vitamin. He explains how rigorous validation—dog‑fooding the product...
Enterprise AI is hitting a ‘last‑mile’ data bottleneck as messy operational data hampers model inference. Empromptu’s ‘golden pipelines’ embed automated ingestion, cleaning, labeling and governance directly into the AI application workflow, shrinking data‑preparation cycles from weeks to under an hour....
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) serving healthcare, finance and legal sectors must embed regulatory expertise into every service layer to meet HIPAA, SEC, FINRA and related compliance mandates. The article outlines how MSPs can implement encryption, MFA, role‑based access, documentation and...
Aurasell announced the launch of the world’s first AI‑native Go‑To‑Market Operating System (GTM OS) that layers intelligent, automated workflows onto any existing CRM such as Salesforce or HubSpot. The platform promises to double productivity and deliver measurable impact within two...
Large enterprises now standardize clean, cloud‑first technology architectures, yet many digital transformations still miss their business targets. The piece explains that the failure stems not from technical flaws but from architecture being sidelined during day‑to‑day decision making, where cost, risk...
Bonterms has introduced a DocuSign IAM extension that links its library of standard agreements and guided‑negotiation playbooks directly to DocuSign’s webform and Navigator platform. The app enables users to launch a deal, negotiate terms, sign electronically, and automatically sync contracts...
Cybersecurity firm Irregular found that popular AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini generate highly predictable passwords with low entropy. Tests showed repeated strings and narrow character selection, yielding only about 27 bits of entropy for a typical...
ZoomInfo and UpLead are the two leading B2B data platforms, each catering to different buyer priorities. ZoomInfo boasts the largest U.S. contact database, intent signals, and deep workflow integrations, but its pricing is custom, contract‑based, and credit‑heavy. UpLead offers real‑time...
Pan American World Airways has signed a Letter of Agreement with Amadeus to serve as its strategic technology partner for the airline’s comeback. Amadeus will provide integrated IT and distribution solutions, covering everything from booking and inventory management to day‑of‑travel...
Traditional cybersecurity upskilling programs are losing relevance as threats and technologies evolve rapidly. Ha Hoang, CIO of Commvault, argues that organizations now need hybrid talent that blends security fundamentals with automation, cloud, and data‑governance expertise. Conventional certification‑centric paths are too...
SaaS founders must now measure the energy and emissions each customer generates, not just revenue and cloud spend. Continuous workloads, AI inference, and data pipelines are turning software into a major energy consumer, making carbon a direct cost driver. Tools...
UKG and Ellucian announced a strategic partnership that links UKG’s Workforce Operating Platform with Ellucian’s ERP and student information systems. The integration enables real‑time data exchange, streamlined workforce operations, and AI‑driven insights for faculty, staff, and student employees. Mutual customers,...
Dayforce, a global HCM provider, launched the “Tiny Briefcase” brand campaign to illustrate how its AI‑powered platform reduces the burden of fragmented HR systems. The visual metaphor shows professionals weighed down by oversized bags that transform into a tiny briefcase,...
Private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners (PSP) has selected Intapp DealCloud to modernize its data, relationship, and pipeline management. With $6.5 billion in assets under management, PSP will use DealCloud’s AI‑driven relationship intelligence, sourcing, and Microsoft SharePoint integration to centralize deal...
The UK Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill (CSRB) cleared its first two parliamentary readings, extending the 2018 NIS Directive to cover Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with at least 50 employees and €10 million turnover—roughly 1,100 firms. The legislation forces these MSPs to...
In this episode, Stack Overflow’s Janice Manningham and Josh Zhang chat with Cloudflare VP Will Allen about the newly launched pay‑per‑crawl model that lets publishers charge crawlers for access. They explain how AI‑driven content scraping has upended the traditional open‑versus‑block...
South Africa experienced a staggering 77% scam victimization rate in the 12 months to early 2025, with 42% of adults losing money, averaging $130 per incident. GASA estimates scammers extracted roughly $2.3 billion from over 17.5 million South Africans, equating to about...
Ericsson announced strategic deals with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services while unveiling a new telecoms innovation R&D centre in Yokohama, Japan. The Microsoft partnership embeds AI‑driven 5G laptop management into Windows 11, using Intune and Ericsson Enterprise 5G Connect to automate connectivity, eSIM...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has lifted adoption of its central CRM platform, Data Hub, through a focused digital‑adoption programme. By aligning the tool with user workflows and delivering on‑demand training, email guidance and a performance dashboard, the...
Customer experience is evolving as technology delivers practical benefits through better design, integration, and intent. Modern voice bots, unified CX platforms, and structured knowledge bases enable faster, more consistent service while reducing pressure on agents. Proactive, AI‑first approaches shift support...
eG Innovations, a US‑based software vendor, has appointed Jon Hatchuel as its first country manager in Australia, marking the firm’s first dedicated employee in the market. Hatchuel, who brings over 20 years of senior IT experience, will focus on expanding...
South African enterprises are pouring significant budgets into cybersecurity tools, yet breach rates keep rising. The core issue is execution: security teams are overwhelmed by data and lack the capacity to turn visibility into action. Unified platforms like Rapid7’s Command...
At the ETCIO Cloud Summit, leaders from Starbucks India and Jio argued that cloud security must shift from protecting static assets to continuously validating identities, especially as AI agents and autonomous workloads proliferate in hybrid environments. They emphasized that bots,...
Agent identities is going to be a super fun and hard problem for software in the coming years. Most agentic systems today assume that the agent can do everything the user can do, and just operate as an extension of...
Enterprises are moving beyond cloud migration to re‑engineer business models around platformization, monetisation and ecosystem scale. Leaders at the ETCIO Cloud Summit highlighted how insurers, manufacturers and service firms are using APIs, data and product‑centric thinking to unlock new revenue...
What people seem to be struggling with the most is not the truly novel parts of building with AI, it's the table stakes. It's not the AI part that's so hard (turns out systems have never been wholly deterministic 😉), it's...
$PANW: TR +15%, Product Rev +22%, TTM Software Firewall +42%, RPO +22% and 110 new platformization deals w/conserve but DD guides. $30B worth of M&A hasn't even kicked in yet.
The article argues that while automation can scale multifamily property operations, human judgment remains essential for handling nuance, edge cases, and unpredictable behavior. Operators must balance trusting automated systems with overriding them when necessary. Technology should amplify good decisions rather...
The Q1 2026 @ConstellationR ShortList™ updates are live. 43 enterprise tech categories refreshed — including new lists across Autonomous IT, AI App Dev Platforms, GenAI Content, CPaaS, and Revenue Intelligence. Explore the vendors shaping what’s next: https://t.co/XJnXbGwKL7 #AI #EnterpriseTech
How well are you surfacing your product experiences to agents? Enjoying this Bengaluru Builder Day talk from @Swiggy's CTO that's looking at making all their surfaces available to agentic users. https://t.co/o6lDaMS5wd
The Eclipse Foundation announced the final release of GlassFish 8, the reference implementation for Jakarta EE 11. The server now includes Jakarta Data repositories, allowing developers to work with JPA and NoSQL entities through a unified repository pattern. It also...
Vibe coded 🤖 a script to list which AWS GuardDuty features are enabled in minutes. Took 15-30 minutes to correct it. The script to enable disabled features, sub features, and create an s3 malware scan plan took about two hours. See blog...
Test for superintelligence: when the data in Fivetran’s salesforce is 100% accurate and up to date at all times, I’ll know we’re there.
In episode 455 of the Smashing Security podcast, host Graham Cluley and journalist James Ball examine the growing threat of tech sovereignty, questioning whether the United States could effectively shut down Europe’s internet by leveraging Gmail, cloud services, and critical infrastructure. They also...
GitLab’s updated Security Dashboard, now in the 18.9 release, adds advanced filters and visualizations that let teams track vulnerability trends, remediation velocity, and risk scores across projects and groups. The dashboard calculates risk using vulnerability age, EPSS, and KEV data,...
Microsoft Dynamics GP users are confronting three intertwined challenges: check‑batch processing is degrading, Microsoft Copilot is now accessible within GP, and reporting capabilities are evolving while legacy limitations hinder finance teams. A slowdown traced to the PM20100 remittance table can...
Leveraging its Database DevOps platform, Harness has released an open‑source native MongoDB executor for Liquibase Community Edition. The executor allows teams to run MongoDB scripts, generate changelogs, and embed migrations into CI/CD pipelines without purchasing commercial extensions. Accompanying the tool...
