Pivotal, Inc.

Pivotal, Inc. | January 27, 2016

Pivotal, the company launched by EMC, VMware and GE to help companies in their quest for digital transformation, announced today that it was bringing in Eric Ries, the man behind the Lean Startup movement, as entrepreneur-in-residence. Ries’ methodology, which he defined in a 2011 book by the same name, has received praise from a who’s who of technology folks from Geoffrey Moore to Tim O’Reilly to Mitch. The idea behind this approach is to bring a scientific methodology to star...

ZDNet | January 14, 2020

DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and we take the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management. The 2019 survey focuses on observability, bringing DevOps engineers' insights ...

Pivotal, Inc. | January 14, 2016

Here's a painful lesson: It doesn't matter much how powerful and or cool your company's product is if customers can't figure out how to use it. That is as true of software and web sites as it of physical products.And that's why Pivotal, a company focusing on next-generation software development, is buying the whimsically named Slice of Lime, a company that specializes in making web pages, mobile applications, and other products attractive and easily understandable. Slice of L...

VentureBeat | January 13, 2020

Google hopes to tap AI and machine learning to make speedy local weather predictions. In a paper and accompanying blog post, the tech giant detailed an AI system that uses satellite images to produce “nearly instantaneous” and high-resolution forecasts — on average, with a roughly one kilometer resolution and a latency of only 5-10 minutes. The researchers behind it say it outperforms traditional models “even at these early stages of development.” The system takes a...