Enterprise IT market is tough for startups. We recently saw Redis Labs moving to a more restrictive license to fend off competition from the cloud providers. This difficulty results from both open source and public cloud services. Look at Docker and its troubles monetizing their platform, despite their huge success with developers. Just a few […]
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 […]
Autonomic Computing Will Happen Much Sooner Than You Expect
The term autonomic computing is nothing new. Ever since IBM used this as a marketing term in 2001, this term has been on the periphery of most people focussed on the future IT trends. Clearly, the term has been suffering from overzealous IBM marketing for a long time and, every time I bring this up […]
Different Flavors Of Serverless Marketing
Yesterday, I wrote a post about retiring the term Serverless in favor of more specific terms like Functions Compute or FaaS, Data Services, etc.. As I expected, this was met with pushbacks on Twitter from people who are in the AWS camp (as in applying the term for services like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, etc.) […]
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 […]
OpenShift Is Kubernetes Fork?
Yesterday, there was a conversation on Twitter after Janakiramm wrote an article in which he refers to some analysts calling OpenShift a fork of Kubernetes. As someone who has been part of open source since the early Slackware days and as someone who has seen the forking process in many communities in the past, I […]
The Need For Mad Scientists In Enterprise IT
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CIO Perspective: On Multi Cloud and Lock-In
The Multi Cloud hype is increasing every day with both legacy vendors and public cloud providers (more specifically, Google which is lagging behind both AWS and Azure) talking about Multi Cloud, there is quite a bit of confusion on whether Multi Cloud will help avoid lock-in. A recent conversation on Twitter provided arguments on both sides […]