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How enterprise technology works, what changed, and what it means.
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One fact, explained well. News lands here first. 94 pieces.
Cloud & DevOps
Cloudflare's Rust panic and Linux's first Rust CVE: what memory safety did not prevent
Markets & the AI economy
An AI plug-in took 16% off Thomson Reuters in a day; LegalZoom never won its loss back
Data & privacy
Proofpoint pays $6.3bn for Varonis: DLP guarded the exits, DSPM guards the permissions
Every note
October2026 · 6 pieces
- Binance lost $6.3 billion in 20 minutes; Tether and Circle froze $1.8 billion in an hourSecurity operations · 3 min
- Search fell below half of Alphabet's revenue; the shares lost about US$500bn in a dayMarkets & the AI economy · 4 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
- 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
September2026 · 1 piece
- Two NinjaOne case studies, five numbers, and no baselineEndpoints & devices · 3 min
August2026 · 1 piece
- Database monitoring is US$0–142 a month; 54% of outages cost over US$100,000Cloud & DevOps · 4 min
July2026 · 2 pieces
- Our ten software trends, rescored: 3 became budget lines, 2 fadedSaaS & business software · 2 min
- Mistakes, not thieves, cost US$10.3m of a US$19.5m insider-risk billData & privacy · 2 min
June2026 · 4 pieces
- 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
- 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 · 3 pieces
- Power Automate lists 1,572 connectors; 1,396 of them need the Premium seatSaaS & business software · 3 min
- Stage EDR content, not just the agent: Falcon now allows a 72-hour delayEndpoints & devices · 3 min
- 0 of 16 vulnerability products test the attack: validation is CTEM's missing stepSecurity operations · 2 min
April2026 · 4 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
- The CrowdStrike outage deleted no data. 10 of 12 DR tools script the way backSecurity operations · 3 min
- Codeproof is 60–80% cheaper than 1 of 7 priced UEMs, not all of themEndpoints & devices · 2 min
March2026 · 4 pieces
- 7 of 18 backup tools cover servers, VMs and cloud; 3 of those leave the lock to youCloud & DevOps · 2 min
- Windows 10 patches now cost US$427 a PC over three years; 40 PCs, US$17,080Endpoints & devices · 3 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 · 4 pieces
- Hexnode went from one product to three in under six months: XDR, then an IdPEndpoints & devices · 3 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 · 1 piece
- Kubernetes runs at 8% CPU and 20% memory; the optimiser is the cheap partCloud & DevOps · 2 min
December2025 · 5 pieces
- 8 of 93 ISO 27001 controls cover people; people are in 62% of breachesSecurity operations · 3 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 · 5 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
October2025 · 5 pieces
- Duolingo retains 84% of its regular learners; work software publishes no such numberSaaS & business software · 3 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 · 4 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
- 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
August2025 · 3 pieces
- An SMB mail filter lists at US$2 to US$3 a mailbox; DMARC costs nothingSecurity operations · 3 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 · 5 pieces
- Journey-mapping tools cost about 7× Visio: US$2,280 vs US$300 for five editorsSaaS & business software · 2 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
- 4 of 6 CRM statistics we once quoted can't be traced; the other two are 12+ years oldSaaS & business software · 2 min
June2025 · 1 piece
- Only 4 of 28 DevOps tools scan code, dependencies and secrets togetherSecurity operations · 3 min
May2025 · 4 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
- Lead scoring sits on US$39 to US$90 CRM seats, not the US$9 entry planSaaS & business software · 3 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 · 5 pieces
- Bias is a test result: one audit cut AI error on darker women by up to 30 pointsAI in the enterprise · 3 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 · 5 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
- 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 · 4 pieces
- Three of five agile tools are free for a team of ten; Asana costs US$110 a monthSaaS & business software · 3 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
- Pharma field-tablet MDM costs US$2 to US$3.99 a device; 4 of 12 host in IndiaEndpoints & devices · 4 min
January2025 · 4 pieces
- 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
- An F on SecurityScorecard now means 13.8× breach odds, up from 7.7×Security operations · 3 min
- Team email costs ₹420 an agent on Zoho Desk and US$25 on HiverSaaS & business software · 2 min
December2024 · 4 pieces
- Entra ID P1 covers 5 of 7 IAM controls; the other 2 cost US$3 more a userIdentity & access · 2 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
- Low-code costs US$8 to US$25 a seat; 2 of 5 platforms won’t print a priceSaaS & business software · 3 min
November2024 · 5 pieces
- 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 · 5 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
- 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
- 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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