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 […]
Should CNCF Set The Standards For Serverless?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has been active in setting up a working group for Serverless in order to define the standards. The working group has been active in defining a level of abstraction that could both be complementary and competitive to what CNCF represents. This is also an insurance policy against Serverless driving adoption […]
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 […]