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Enterprise Software Automation
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Global Cloud Services Trends
Connectbase's automation push still needs an introduction
The platform has software for finding and transacting with network suppliers. Its new adviser is being engaged for another task: getting the right infrastructure businesses into a commercial conversation.
North America Cloud Services Trends
AITX’s 14% Payment Drop Does Not Yet Clear the Cash-Flow Test
AITX spent less cash in a selected set of operating categories in August than in July. That is a useful observation, but the company’s own exclusions, timing notes and financing record show why one smaller month cannot yet carry the weight of a cash-flow result.
Creators
Cricket Liu: how DNS became managed infrastructure
Cricket Liu's career traces the path of the domain name system from a specialised service handled by a small group of operators to an enterprise control plane and, increasingly, a security sensor. His significance lies not in inventing protocols but in explaining how names…
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP
Turknet adopts Airties Aura for broadband support
Turknet is deploying Airties Aura inside its existing broadband platform, bringing diagnosis and approved corrective actions into the same support workflow.
Creators
Cricket Liu and the long work of making DNS operable
Cricket Liu’s career follows the Domain Name System from a specialist service run by a small group of operators to an enterprise control plane and, increasingly, a security sensor. His importance lies less in inventing protocols than in explaining how names, addresses, leases and…
North America Cloud Services Trends
PTC’s $525m Quarterly Buyback Crossed From Divestiture Cash Into Revolver Debt
PTC’s repurchase programme changed funding regimes in two quarters. Net after-tax proceeds from selling Kepware and ThingWorx financed a $375 million accelerated repurchase in March. By June, PTC was paying $500 million for open-market purchases in a quarter that produced $249.3…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Vertex’s 25% Adjusted EBITDA Margin Produced a 1.3% Free-Cash-Flow Margin
Vertex widened its adjusted EBITDA margin by 4.2 percentage points in the second quarter, yet free cash flow fell to US$2.7 million. The gap is not a contradiction. It is a map of the items adjusted out of one measure, the cash that operations actually supplied, and the US$28.2…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Sprinklr Parks US$86 Million of Its RPO Gain Beyond Twelve Months
Sprinklr’s contracted backlog is growing faster than its reported revenue, but most of the incremental promise is not scheduled for the next year. Of the US$103 million added to remaining performance obligations since last July, US$86 million sits beyond twelve months. That…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Samsara brings fuel decisions closer to the payment terminal
Its new Fuel Command Center joins savings estimates, route advice and Coast card controls. The buyer still has to decide which signals should stop a purchase.
IETF
Tatu Ylonen and the SSH Window That Could Not Acknowledge the Command
An automation runner pushes a command through SSH, sees the channel window reopen and watches the encrypted connection close cleanly. The dashboard marks the job complete. Yet none of those events says that the remote application committed the intended change. Tatu Ylonen’s RFC…
IETF
The Price of Keeping Only the Latest Notification
Web Push can spare a returning device a backlog of obsolete updates. The difficult decision is not how to replace a waiting message, but which information the business can afford to leave behind.
IETF
The Mount Point Changes What a Valid Configuration Means
A reusable network model carries its rules with it. It does not necessarily carry all the data against which those rules will be judged. YANG Schema Mount makes that distinction an operational responsibility.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Docusign's 15.1% IAM share is missing its quarterly denominator
Docusign has made Intelligent Agreement Management visible as a share of annual recurring revenue. It has not made the quarterly total behind that share visible. The result is a strategically useful percentage that cannot yet answer the market's simplest product question: how…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Guidewire’s stronger operations run into a currency-and-tax squeeze
Quarterly operating profit more than doubled, yet net income fell. The route between the two numbers matters: a currency loss, a changed tax comparison and a recast adjusted-profit series are telling different parts of the story.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Asana bought StackAI. Its employee awards still require future work
Asana’s latest quarterly filing puts a useful boundary around the StackAI deal: US$74.6m bought the company, while a separate set of equity awards depends on employees’ future service. Owning the platform and securing the work needed to integrate it are different achievements.
Global Cloud Services
Kentik and the data engine that turns network flows into evidence
Kentik’s network-intelligence platform depends on a proprietary analytical engine designed to retain large volumes of telemetry, add routing and business context, and return historical answers quickly enough to guide operations. Kentik Data Engine gives network teams a searchable…
Global Cloud Services Trends
UiPath's US$1.938bn ARR Is a Renewal Run-Rate, Not Contracted Backlog
UiPath put US$1.938 billion at the centre of its July-quarter update. The initials looked familiar, but the words behind them matter: this is Annualized Renewal Run-rate, not the more casually assumed annual recurring revenue. UiPath builds it from invoiced amounts by solution…
North America Institutional Trends
Cineverse’s Pan’s Labyrinth Loan Has Three Receipt Claims, Not One Film Budget
A US$3.125 million facility for a re-release can look like a compact production-finance headline. Cineverse’s disclosure describes something more layered: reimbursement of an older advance, a payment toward a senior credit facility, film-specific collateral, a capped corporate…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Lifecycle launches telecom compliance service
The service maps regulatory obligations to customer workflows, bringing compliance into the BSS processes used to launch and operate mobile services.
Global Datacenter Trends
Equinix unveils Fabric One for managed multicloud networking
Fabric One will let customers specify connectivity requirements while Equinix manages routing, cloud links, encryption and failover.