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Trends
What is rising or falling, told with a line over time.
Markets & the AI economy
GPU rent turned up: B200 hours rose 21% in a month, H100 hours 7%
· 5 min read
Markets & the AI economy
Big Tech's quarterly capex hit US$202bn, more than its operations brought in
· 6 min read
Security operations
One extortion case in three now skips encryption and just steals the data
· 5 min read
Cloud & DevOps
TypeScript's Go port runs 10x faster; Cloudflare's Rust proxy uses under half the CPU
· 6 min read
The month in numbers
$497bnof Alphabet's market value gone in one day, close to close, as Search fell below half of its revenueRead: Markets & the AI economy$6.3bnleft Binance's hot wallets in about 20 minutes; stablecoin issuers froze part of it within the hourRead: Security operations$202bnspent on building by Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta in one quarter, more than their operations brought inRead: Markets & the AI economy2.6minternet-facing PHP hosts exposed to two flaws that take a server in one requestRead: Security operations
Markets & the AI economy
How new AI moves markets, who spends what on it, and who earns the money.
Security stocks fell up to 21% on Anthropic launches; CrowdStrike has since gained 154%
Four Anthropic launches from 20 February to 9 June, eight US-listed security stocks and two sector funds, in daily closes to 27 October: what fell, what was blamed, what came back.
· 9 min read
- TrendPC shipments fell a fifth while DRAM contract prices rose 5× in a year
- Analysis33 of 56 listed vendors fell 30% or more; what changes at renewal and what does not
- TrendFibre spot prices are four to six times last year's as AI data centres take the supply
- AnalysisIndia runs 1.8 GW of data centres; AI alone may add 26.3 GW of grid load by FY32
Long reads
Security operations
eMudhra's private key was the number 4. Chrome blocked it in 100 minutes
How a CA key below 256 ended emSign ECC Root CA – G3 in October 2026: the trust-store clock from 100 minutes to ten days, what is unaffected in India, and the inventory CERT-In asks for.
· 9 min read
Buying software in India
Microsoft's cheapest seats rose the most: F1 +33%, E3 +8%, bundled VMware ends 31 October
Microsoft's 1 July 2026 list, the 1 October 5% uplift on monthly-billed CSP software, and the 31 October Azure VMware deadline, priced for a 500-seat Indian company.
· 10 min read
AI in the enterprise
Two CERT-In advisories in six days: AI agents broke in, and no victim noticed
What CIAD-2026-0046 and 0049 actually say, the 104-minute LiteLLM poisoning that followed, and what an Indian IT team should change before the DPDP Rules bite in May 2027.
· 8 min read
Data & privacy
3,897 SBI records leaked. Three clocks now run: 6 hours, 6 hours and 72 hours
What SBI's 21 October 2026 filing listed, the CERT-In, RBI DAKSH and DPDP Rule 7 reporting windows an Indian bank now runs, and what an IT team must have in place before the next leak.
· 9 min read
Questions, answered
Plain questions readers bring us, each answered by one piece.
What is MCP, and how can it run an attacker's commands?
AI in the enterprise · 10 min- Are passkeys ready to replace staff passwords and OTPs?Identity & access · 8 min
- How are AI agents billed, and what will a month cost?SaaS & business software · 9 min
- Why do TLS certificates now need renewing several times a year?Security operations · 8 min
- Is the 3-2-1 backup rule still enough against ransomware?Data & privacy · 6 min
- SSL VPN or IPsec: which one keeps getting exploited?Network & SASE · 7 min
- Is MPLS still worth paying for at an Indian branch?Network & SASE · 10 min
- Should remote monitoring, ticketing and remote access be one product or three?Endpoints & devices · 9 min
The desks
Every desk, sized by how much it has published; Markets & the AI economy in the long column.
CRM, collaboration, SaaS management — the software the business buys.
Salesforce charges US$2 a conversation; HubSpot 50 cents. CRM is now a system of action- Only 2 of 9 SaaS management platforms print a price you can multiply
- An Agentforce action costs 10 cents, a conversation $2: how AI agents are billed now
- Our ten software trends, rescored: 3 became budget lines, 2 faded
- Per-minute sync costs 2.8× a daily one: how four data-integration tools bill
How new AI moves markets, who spends what on it, and who earns the money.
GPU rent turned up: B200 hours rose 21% in a month, H100 hours 7%- Big Tech's quarterly capex hit US$202bn, more than its operations brought in
- Search fell below half of Alphabet's revenue; the shares lost about US$500bn in a day
- Security stocks fell up to 21% on Anthropic launches; CrowdStrike has since gained 154%
- AI revenue rose up to 29% in a quarter; India's four IT majors grew 0–2.3%
- PC shipments fell a fifth while DRAM contract prices rose 5× in a year
Detection, response, SIEM and the people who run them.
Binance lost $6.3 billion in 20 minutes; Tether and Circle froze $1.8 billion in an hour- Six days from patch to exploited: PHP, Node.js, Oracle and the order to fix them
- One extortion case in three now skips encryption and just steals the data
Workloads, pipelines, observability.
TypeScript's Go port runs 10x faster; Cloudflare's Rust proxy uses under half the CPU- Rust replaces C in Android’s Binder as memory bugs fall from 76% to under 20%
- Cloudflare's Rust panic and Linux's first Rust CVE: what memory safety did not prevent
- Database monitoring is US$0–142 a month; 54% of outages cost over US$100,000
- Valid provenance, malicious code: what three npm worm waves broke
Where data sits, who reads it, and what the DPDP Act says.
3,897 SBI records leaked. Three clocks now run: 6 hours, 6 hours and 72 hours- Proofpoint pays $6.3bn for Varonis: DLP guarded the exits, DSPM guards the permissions
- 11 RBI cyber controls, 3 you can’t buy: the other 8 cost ₹27.5 lakh to ₹2.5 crore
- Mistakes, not thieves, cost US$10.3m of a US$19.5m insider-risk bill
Pricing, GST, procurement and the regulations that bite.
Microsoft's cheapest seats rose the most: F1 +33%, E3 +8%, bundled VMware ends 31 October- Jio was free for 208 days, then raised prices 3 times: budget software for year two
- Only 25 of 449 business tools we track start free; Dropbox's payers are 2.6%
- We recommended QuickBooks 27 days before it left India; Zoho Books is ₹749 a month
Who gets in, with what, for how long.
Passkeys carry 36% of sign-ins, up from 26%: the gap to enrolment nearly closed- IAM costs $3 to $17 a user a month. The breach still starts at the password
- The phone call that beat MFA: how ShinyHunters got into Salesforce through OAuth
- 5 billion passkeys, yet 57% of firms still sign staff in with a phishable factor
The edge, the branch, and the tunnel between them.
MPLS costs 6× broadband plus SD-WAN: a 40-branch Indian worked example- SSL VPNs: 56 exploited flaws; IPsec: 8. Fortinet has already chosen
- Your firewall is the throttle: a 20 Gbps FortiGate inspects 1 Gbps
- Of 10 classic security steps, 3 still hold; the missing one starts 31% of breaches
The archive
Every piece, month by month, with the month's first story pictured.
October2026 · 27 pieces
- GPU rent turned up: B200 hours rose 21% in a month, H100 hours 7%Markets & the AI economy · 5 min
- Binance lost $6.3 billion in 20 minutes; Tether and Circle froze $1.8 billion in an hourSecurity operations · 3 min
- Big Tech's quarterly capex hit US$202bn, more than its operations brought inMarkets & the AI economy · 6 min
- Search fell below half of Alphabet's revenue; the shares lost about US$500bn in a dayMarkets & the AI economy · 4 min
- Six days from patch to exploited: PHP, Node.js, Oracle and the order to fix themSecurity operations · 9 min
- One extortion case in three now skips encryption and just steals the dataSecurity operations · 5 min
- PHP2Shell takes a server in one request; 2.6 million hosts are exposedSecurity operations · 10 min
- Your bank password, your liability: 3 US banks put AI-agent losses on youAI in the enterprise · 10 min
- Security stocks fell up to 21% on Anthropic launches; CrowdStrike has since gained 154%Markets & the AI economy · 9 min
- eMudhra's private key was the number 4. Chrome blocked it in 100 minutesSecurity operations · 9 min
- Microsoft's cheapest seats rose the most: F1 +33%, E3 +8%, bundled VMware ends 31 OctoberBuying software in India · 10 min
- AI revenue rose up to 29% in a quarter; India's four IT majors grew 0–2.3%Markets & the AI economy · 3 min
- Two CERT-In advisories in six days: AI agents broke in, and no victim noticedAI in the enterprise · 8 min
- TypeScript's Go port runs 10x faster; Cloudflare's Rust proxy uses under half the CPUCloud & DevOps · 6 min
- Rust replaces C in Android’s Binder as memory bugs fall from 76% to under 20%Cloud & DevOps · 5 min
- PC shipments fell a fifth while DRAM contract prices rose 5× in a yearMarkets & the AI economy · 5 min
- 3,897 SBI records leaked. Three clocks now run: 6 hours, 6 hours and 72 hoursData & privacy · 9 min
- Cyber insurance rates fell for 13 quarters running; US rates went flatSecurity operations · 5 min
- 33 of 56 listed vendors fell 30% or more; what changes at renewal and what does notMarkets & the AI economy · 8 min
- Memory-corruption bugs fell from 31% to 14% of exploited flawsSecurity operations · 5 min
- Fibre spot prices are four to six times last year's as AI data centres take the supplyMarkets & the AI economy · 5 min
- Cloudflare's Rust panic and Linux's first Rust CVE: what memory safety did not preventCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- An AI plug-in took 16% off Thomson Reuters in a day; LegalZoom never won its loss backMarkets & the AI economy · 3 min
- Proofpoint pays $6.3bn for Varonis: DLP guarded the exits, DSPM guards the permissionsData & privacy · 4 min
- Passkeys carry 36% of sign-ins, up from 26%: the gap to enrolment nearly closedIdentity & access · 4 min
- Windows 10 still runs 41% of India's Windows PCs a year after its end; world 28%Endpoints & devices · 7 min
- India runs 1.8 GW of data centres; AI alone may add 26.3 GW of grid load by FY32Markets & the AI economy · 9 min
September2026 · 9 pieces
- Salesforce charges US$2 a conversation; HubSpot 50 cents. CRM is now a system of actionSaaS & business software · 9 min
- Chinese AI models rose from 6–13% to 57–67% of OpenRouter tokensAI in the enterprise · 6 min
- Ransomware victims hit 1,073 in August, the year's high; most don't paySecurity operations · 8 min
- MPLS costs 6× broadband plus SD-WAN: a 40-branch Indian worked exampleNetwork & SASE · 10 min
- IAM costs $3 to $17 a user a month. The breach still starts at the passwordIdentity & access · 9 min
- Europe gives software makers 24 hours to report an exploited flaw; India gives 6Security operations · 9 min
- Only 2 of 9 SaaS management platforms print a price you can multiplySaaS & business software · 10 min
- Two NinjaOne case studies, five numbers, and no baselineEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- An Agentforce action costs 10 cents, a conversation $2: how AI agents are billed nowSaaS & business software · 9 min
August2026 · 8 pieces
- Database monitoring is US$0–142 a month; 54% of outages cost over US$100,000Cloud & DevOps · 4 min
- 37% of firms see any profit from AI, 6% a real one, as agents spreadAI in the enterprise · 8 min
- Three Gartner Leaders skipped MITRE's latest test: what AI endpoint security measuredEndpoints & devices · 9 min
- One platform or three? All-in-one RMM is 1.5–4.8× cheaper on list; the catch is depthEndpoints & devices · 9 min
- Seqrite at ₹1,250 vs Kaspersky at ₹5,200: the labs score them level anywayEndpoints & devices · 8 min
- Valid provenance, malicious code: what three npm worm waves brokeCloud & DevOps · 10 min
- NinjaOne vs six RMMs: wins the rankings, quotes the priceEndpoints & devices · 10 min
- EU AI Act now applies, but its high-risk rules slipped 16 monthsAI in the enterprise · 9 min
July2026 · 8 pieces
- Our ten software trends, rescored: 3 became budget lines, 2 fadedSaaS & business software · 2 min
- Per-minute sync costs 2.8× a daily one: how four data-integration tools billSaaS & business software · 6 min
- 11 RBI cyber controls, 3 you can’t buy: the other 8 cost ₹27.5 lakh to ₹2.5 croreData & privacy · 6 min
- Mistakes, not thieves, cost US$10.3m of a US$19.5m insider-risk billData & privacy · 2 min
- The phone call that beat MFA: how ShinyHunters got into Salesforce through OAuthIdentity & access · 10 min
- Of 38 security vendors, none is shortlisted in all five endpoint layersEndpoints & devices · 6 min
- Exploited flaws now get 3 days, not 21: CISA rewrote the patch clockSecurity operations · 8 min
- Software shed about US$1tn in a week; seat-priced renewals are nextSaaS & business software · 8 min
June2026 · 6 pieces
- In India, backing up a ₹145 mailbox costs as much as the mailbox itselfSaaS & business software · 6 min
- HR and payroll for 100 staff: ₹8,745 to ₹9,900 a month; Keka prints no priceSaaS & business software · 2 min
- 14 of 20 SSE products sell a CASB; only Netskope puts it in the base tierCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- Only 7 of 18 service desks run change management; two charge 5× the entry seat for itSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Hourly AWS Glue sync: about US$1,270 a month, and it never sees a deleted rowCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- 26 exploited flaws in 7 self-hosted RMM servers: on-prem means you patch themEndpoints & devices · 3 min
May2026 · 7 pieces
- Power Automate lists 1,572 connectors; 1,396 of them need the Premium seatSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Verizon: exploits now beat stolen passwords as the way in, 31% to 13%Security operations · 8 min
- 3-2-1 is not enough: 94% of ransomware victims saw attackers go for the backupsData & privacy · 6 min
- SSL VPNs: 56 exploited flaws; IPsec: 8. Fortinet has already chosenNetwork & SASE · 7 min
- Stage EDR content, not just the agent: Falcon now allows a 72-hour delayEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- 5 billion passkeys, yet 57% of firms still sign staff in with a phishable factorIdentity & access · 8 min
- 0 of 16 vulnerability products test the attack: validation is CTEM's missing stepSecurity operations · 2 min
April2026 · 6 pieces
- Your firewall is the throttle: a 20 Gbps FortiGate inspects 1 GbpsNetwork & SASE · 2 min
- Phishing training cut failures by 1.7 points; 56% of staff still clickedSecurity operations · 2 min
- MCP lets an AI agent run commands; up to 200,000 servers would run an attacker's tooAI in the enterprise · 10 min
- The CrowdStrike outage deleted no data. 10 of 12 DR tools script the way backSecurity operations · 3 min
- CrowdStrike’s 78-minute file crashed 8.5 million PCs; RBI counted 10 lenders hitSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Codeproof is 60–80% cheaper than 1 of 7 priced UEMs, not all of themEndpoints & devices · 2 min
March2026 · 7 pieces
- 7 of 18 backup tools cover servers, VMs and cloud; 3 of those leave the lock to youCloud & DevOps · 2 min
- 2 of 18 encryption tools protect a file after it leaves; disk encryption is freeData & privacy · 7 min
- One stolen admin login wiped Stryker's devices with Intune's own buttonEndpoints & devices · 9 min
- Windows 10 patches now cost US$427 a PC over three years; 40 PCs, US$17,080Endpoints & devices · 3 min
- Certificates now last 200 days, then 47: one renewal a year becomes eightSecurity operations · 8 min
- 9 of 12 UEMs lock a device to one app; 2 of 14 access tools control only the browserEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- Only 3 of 10 CSPM vendors document an India region; banks should ask the other 7Security operations · 3 min
February2026 · 6 pieces
- Hexnode went from one product to three in under six months: XDR, then an IdPEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- India's 3-hour takedown rule: AI audio and video must now carry a labelAI in the enterprise · 9 min
- Seqrite is now over half of Quick Heal: enterprise up 22.5%, consumer down 24.7%Security operations · 7 min
- 16 endpoint security labels, 7 purchases: six of them are one agent nowEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- Hiver's US$25 seat covers 5 of the 6 things we first sold it onEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- DPDP Rule 6 names backups; 8 of 18 backup tools document no Indian copyData & privacy · 3 min
January2026 · 4 pieces
- UEM adds the laptop: only 5 of 12 tools document Apple's DDM updatesEndpoints & devices · 7 min
- Only 13 of 36 endpoint security tools cover phones in the same consoleEndpoints & devices · 7 min
- Only Commvault covers all 7 workloads; 18 backup products use 7 price unitsCloud & DevOps · 6 min
- Kubernetes runs at 8% CPU and 20% memory; the optimiser is the cheap partCloud & DevOps · 2 min
December2025 · 7 pieces
- 8 of 93 ISO 27001 controls cover people; people are in 62% of breachesSecurity operations · 3 min
- 7 of 18 DLP tools watch email, laptop and cloud; none documents a PAN detectorData & privacy · 6 min
- 18 exploited Exchange flaws, 14 used in ransomware: the cost of hosting your own mailCloud & DevOps · 6 min
- A Power Automate bot costs 10× a seat: ₹12,480 vs ₹1,250 a monthAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- A 3×3×3 multivariate test needs 14.4 lakh visitors; an A/B test, 1.1 lakhCloud & DevOps · 2 min
- Graymail has two cut-offs: 11 ignored emails at HubSpot, 3 years in India's lawSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Three Indian rulebooks put a named person, not a bot, behind every complaintAI in the enterprise · 3 min
November2025 · 6 pieces
- ARPU hides the U: Dropbox earns US$140 a payer, HubSpot US$11,800 a customerSaaS & business software · 2 min
- India clicks 31.8% of opened emails, the US 9.5%: why CTOR travels badlySaaS & business software · 2 min
- A rate limit costs US$0 in NGINX, US$12 in AWS WAF and US$1,825 on Kong KonnectCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- GA4 accepts 9 UTM tags, reports 7, and files ‘newsletter’ under UnassignedSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Gmail and Yahoo cap spam complaints at 0.3%; that, not opens, sets your cadenceSaaS & business software · 3 min
- NPS runs 0–10, CSAT 1–5, CES 1–7: our earlier post had two of three scales wrongSaaS & business software · 7 min
October2025 · 7 pieces
- Duolingo retains 84% of its regular learners; work software publishes no such numberSaaS & business software · 3 min
- 5 of 8 account-identification tools print a price; 6sense and ZoomInfo don’tSaaS & business software · 6 min
- Jio was free for 208 days, then raised prices 3 times: budget software for year twoBuying software in India · 6 min
- Brand24 charges 76× Awario per mention; 4 of 6 listening tools hide the priceSaaS & business software · 2 min
- PQL trials convert 2.8× better; the analytics to score them starts freeCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- Four CDP vendors sold in five months; 1 of 5 prints a plan priceSaaS & business software · 3 min
- 2 of 5 customer-intelligence tools we once named were renamed; 1 of 5 prints a priceSaaS & business software · 3 min
September2025 · 7 pieces
- A first name in the subject line lifted sales leads 31% in a randomised testAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- Klarna's bot did 700 agents' work; 15 months later it was hiring humansAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- Calendly charges US$16 a seat for round robin; Microsoft 365 includes BookingsSaaS & business software · 6 min
- AI analytics writes correct SQL 83% of the time; humans manage 93%AI in the enterprise · 6 min
- At 2% conversion, an A/B test needs 42,000 visitors to prove a 20% liftSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Only 37% of Gartner’s US$26.9bn low-code market was app buildersSaaS & business software · 2 min
- Free CI runs 50 to 6,000 minutes a month: a startup’s DevOps bill starts at ₹0Cloud & DevOps · 6 min
August2025 · 6 pieces
- An SMB mail filter lists at US$2 to US$3 a mailbox; DMARC costs nothingSecurity operations · 3 min
- Drip emails were 2% of sends and 30% of email revenue across 150,000 brandsSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Only 25 of 449 business tools we track start free; Dropbox's payers are 2.6%Buying software in India · 6 min
- 11,334 WordPress flaws in a year, and only six were in WordPress itselfSaaS & business software · 7 min
- A sales forecast costs US$14 a CRM seat on Zoho and US$100 on SalesforceSaaS & business software · 2 min
- 2 of 5 heatmap tools are free at 10,000 sessions; the others charge US$72–109 a monthSaaS & business software · 2 min
July2025 · 8 pieces
- Journey-mapping tools cost about 7× Visio: US$2,280 vs US$300 for five editorsSaaS & business software · 2 min
- All 3 SIEMs on our old SMB list changed hands; 8 of 31 named tools movedSecurity operations · 7 min
- 4 of 5 CRMs now automate at the entry tier; HubSpot charges 4.5× to lift the limitsSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Freshworks’ US$100K accounts grew 4× faster than its US$5K onesSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Shopify and Webflow take 2% of each sale on entry plans; Zoho Commerce takes 0%AI in the enterprise · 2 min
- 17% of small EU firms use AI vs 55% of large; lack of skills is the top barrierAI in the enterprise · 6 min
- Instagram ads reach 48 crore Indians, X's 2.2 crore: pick two platforms, not sixSaaS & business software · 6 min
- 4 of 6 CRM statistics we once quoted can't be traced; the other two are 12+ years oldSaaS & business software · 2 min
June2025 · 6 pieces
- We recommended QuickBooks 27 days before it left India; Zoho Books is ₹749 a monthBuying software in India · 7 min
- 12% of employees rate their onboarding great; the laptop and logins are the fixable partSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Only 4 of 28 DevOps tools scan code, dependencies and secrets togetherSecurity operations · 3 min
- Low DevOps performers fail 40% of changes; elite teams fail 5%Cloud & DevOps · 7 min
- Enterprise software ROI leaks in 3 places: 56% value gap, 46% idle seatsBuying software in India · 7 min
- 8 of 10 low-code platforms print a price; only 2 print every tierSaaS & business software · 7 min
May2025 · 7 pieces
- One five-step workflow: 187 runs a month on Zapier’s entry plan, 2,000 on Make’sSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Cloud accounting saves ₹31,560 at five users, costs ₹13,440 more at tenCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- Unpatched software opens 26% of SMB breaches; stolen passwords 13%Security operations · 6 min
- Helpdesks start at US$19 an agent; the next tier up costs 2.2× to 4× thatSaaS & business software · 6 min
- Lead scoring sits on US$39 to US$90 CRM seats, not the US$9 entry planSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Google has 96.6% of India's searches, and an SMB's SEO kit can start at ₹0SaaS & business software · 6 min
- An SMB's AI seat costs ₹0 to US$21 a month; the enterprise list is US$30AI in the enterprise · 2 min
April2025 · 7 pieces
- Bias is a test result: one audit cut AI error on darker women by up to 30 pointsAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- Three Freshdesk agents cost US$57 a month; 1,000 AI chats cost US$490SaaS & business software · 6 min
- Zoho Books charges 6.7× for Amazon sync: what an Indian seller's ERP must doSaaS & business software · 6 min
- 117 emails and 153 chats a day: remote-work burnout is set in the toolsSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Radiology holds 1,230 of the FDA's 1,614 AI medical devicesAI in the enterprise · 2 min
- Hybrid work cut quits by a third, with no loss of performance, in a 1,612-person trialSaaS & business software · 3 min
- UK trials put Copilot's saving at 12 to 43 minutes a day; the stricter, the lowerAI in the enterprise · 3 min
March2025 · 6 pieces
- 62 VPN gateway flaws on CISA's exploited list, 34 used in ransomwareSecurity operations · 3 min
- Power BI F64 beats ₹1,165 Pro seats only past 458 report readersSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Atlassian set an end date for Jira Data Center: self-hosting runs out, cloud is nextCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- 3 of 5 recruiting tools we once named now belong to bigger groups; 3 hide the priceSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Shopify in India: Basic costs more than Grow once sales pass ₹4.1 lakh a monthSaaS & business software · 2 min
- 3 of 5 cloud CRMs offer an India data region; Pipedrive puts India in LondonSaaS & business software · 3 min
February2025 · 6 pieces
- Three of five agile tools are free for a team of ten; Asana costs US$110 a monthSaaS & business software · 3 min
- 37 of 105 security products print a price: the five basics, costed for 100 peopleSecurity operations · 7 min
- Segmented emails got 2× the clicks; the builder costs US$4.50 to US$20 a monthSaaS & business software · 4 min
- Insurers get 14 days, banks 30: the complaint clock behind every chatbotAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- An Indian breach costs ₹25.5 crore on average; CERT-In’s caseload has grown 2.5×Security operations · 6 min
- Pharma field-tablet MDM costs US$2 to US$3.99 a device; 4 of 12 host in IndiaEndpoints & devices · 4 min
January2025 · 7 pieces
- Infrastructure monitoring costs US$8 to US$29 a host; 2 of 8 vendors name an India regionCloud & DevOps · 7 min
- SummitAI is now Apex Aspen: 2 renames, and still no published priceAI in the enterprise · 3 min
- NinjaOne's valuation rose 6.5× in 28 months; its customer count about 2.4×SaaS & business software · 2 min
- 4 of SecurityScorecard's 10 risk factors are fixed by configuration, not a purchaseSecurity operations · 7 min
- An F on SecurityScorecard now means 13.8× breach odds, up from 7.7×Security operations · 3 min
- 9 of 15 email security tools on our old list changed owner, name or listingSecurity operations · 6 min
- Team email costs ₹420 an agent on Zoho Desk and US$25 on HiverSaaS & business software · 2 min
December2024 · 7 pieces
- Entra ID P1 covers 5 of 7 IAM controls; the other 2 cost US$3 more a userIdentity & access · 2 min
- 9 of 18 service desks carry full asset management; the asset tier costs $27–$49Endpoints & devices · 6 min
- Third parties were in 48% of breaches; 1 of 5 TPRM pricing pages shows a priceSecurity operations · 7 min
- Four of five UEM tools print a price: US$1.33 to US$6 a device a monthEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- Load testing starts free; paid tiers run $19 to $149 a monthCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- 12 of 20 patch tools are quote-only, and only 9 patch apps on Linux tooEndpoints & devices · 7 min
- Low-code costs US$8 to US$25 a seat; 2 of 5 platforms won’t print a priceSaaS & business software · 3 min
November2024 · 6 pieces
- 12 of 36 endpoint tools roll back ransomware; 10 say where your data sitsEndpoints & devices · 8 min
- Of 10 classic security steps, 3 still hold; the missing one starts 31% of breachesNetwork & SASE · 3 min
- 31% of breaches start at an unpatched flaw; RMM to close it costs US$1–3.75 a deviceEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- 5 of 7 firewalls already include SD-WAN; the real purchase is a second lineNetwork & SASE · 3 min
- Business email compromise cost US$2.77bn in a year; 5 of 14 filters print a priceSecurity operations · 4 min
- SaaS for 25 people costs ₹30,500 a month; the idle seat is the real costSaaS & business software · 3 min
October2024 · 7 pieces
- Only 4 of 12 MDMs host data in India; 7 manage iPhone, Windows and AndroidEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- Datadog database monitoring costs US$85 a host, not the US$70 on the cardCloud & DevOps · 3 min
- CRM seats list at US$9 to US$550 a month; only Zoho prints a rupee priceSaaS & business software · 7 min
- Video meetings cut conference carbon by 94%, and the licence starts freeSaaS & business software · 3 min
- 5 of 10 idea-management tools print a price; a ten-seat pilot runs US$0 to US$390SaaS & business software · 3 min
- Cloud marketplaces now take 3% of a SaaS sale, and India dropped both leviesSaaS & business software · 7 min
- An AI support chat costs US$0.49 to US$2.00: five price lists, comparedAI in the enterprise · 3 min
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