Pulumi, a Seattle based startup, announced Series A funding and the release of Team Edition of their Multi Cloud App Deployment tool (see Techmeme discussion). Rishidot Research has already identified Pulumi’s approach as one of the three different approaches to cloud native platforms with Pulumi falling into Infrastructure as developer friendly code category. This funding […]
SpotInst Could Change The Way We Consume Cloud
SpotInst, the Israel based startup focussed on streamlining the use of spot instances in the cloud, today announced their Series B funding of $35 Million. This round is led by Highland. Existing investors, Leaders Fund, Vertex Ventures, and Intel Capital are part of this round. SpotInst is a company that has been under my radar […]
Let Us Just Retire The Term Serverless
Tech industry loves to create terms that confuse people more than adding any value. Terms like Private Cloud, NoOps, etc. are marketing terms invented by vendors without adding any meaningful value to the industry conversation. The term Serverless falls into this category. Initially, used by Ken Fromm as a way to describe on-demand elastic infrastructure […]
On The Need For Red Hat To Enter The Database Space
In response to my post on Red Hat’s blind spot on databases, Redmonk Analyst Steve O’ Grady posted explaining why Red Hat couldn’t (or shouldn’t) enter the database market. He posed a set of 5 questions he expects in any response. In the spirit of good natured debate (with utmost respect to Steve’s views), I […]
Introducing Modern Enterprise Form Factor
Modern Enterprise CIOs are focussed on continuous innovation, enabling their developers to help their business stakeholders in the rapidly changing business landscape. In their quest for agility, many decision makers focus on building cloud native apps that can be deployed on public clouds. Enabling your developers to deploy their applications to public cloud definitely increases […]
Understanding CaaS, PaaS, Container Platforms and Application Platforms
There is quite a bit of confusion in how the terms CaaS, PaaS, Container Platforms and Application Platforms are used. The confusion exist in the market and we want to use this post to clarify what these terms mean in the context of cloud native ecosystem. The difference between CaaS or PaaS and Container […]
Containers Are Not The Shiny Objects Anymore?
Containers, after Docker made the user experience seamless for developers, not only captivated developers and garnered their mindshare, it also made deployment of applications into production much more easy. It completely altered the developer workflow, pushing the CI tools into oblivion. When Kubernetes came into the market and made the deployment part of applications friction […]
Is IBM Going Multi Cloud?
IBM Think 2018 conference was held in Las Vegas and this is a Rishidot Research trip report. IBM has finally got a more unified message across Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and other technologies that are part of the modern enterprise stack. IBM Services is talking about multi cloud as their main message.
Picking The Right Technology: VMs, Containers or Serverless?
With newer technologies coming up faster than the rate at which IT decision makers can update the platforms, there is always a confusion about which technology is better suited for a workload. In this post, we are proposing a simplified framework for deciding the right platform technology for your application based on your application architecture. […]
