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 […]
Kubernetes Platforms: Stay Close To The Edge Or Not
The long-held belief in the IT industry is that enterprises are risk averse and they prefer battle tested versions of software over bleeding edge latest release. Traditional enterprise software companies have, in fact, built their business based on this belief and it continues even today. One of the interesting conversations that are happening among the […]
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 […]