Docker recently raised another $95 million in a Round D, even though it is still burning through its Round B cash and hasn’t touched the $40 million it raised in Round C. Docker has now raised roughly $160 million dollars. Analysts have estimated its valuation is somewhere in the $1 billion range. With each round, …
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Are Enterprises Changing Directions?
No, this is not an article about changing jobs or anything like that. This is an article about the changing directions we have been seeing within the community and companies surrounding cloud and virtualization: a change that signals a new round of innovation and a fundamental shift in thinking. Before, we thought of cloud + …
DevOps: Stop Talking and Start Doing
If you are like me, you are probably tired of the endless articles talking about DevOps. Each day, you are guaranteed to see an onslaught of articles on the following topics: What Is DevOps? DevOps Is a Culture Change DevOps Requires Empathy DevOps Unicorns, or All Unicorns Started Out as Horses Buy My DevOps Tools …
An Interview with Docker
Last week, I interviewed Solomon Hykes, founder and CTO of Docker. I first met Solomon back in January of 2013 when I was interviewing executives in Silicon Valley. At the time, I was researching PaaS solutions for my recently released book, Architecting the Cloud. Back then, the company had a very promising public PaaS solution …
Veeam Looks to the Future with Further Expansion into the Cloud
Veeam has dug its hand down the back of its corporate couches and handed over a tidy $42.5 million to N2WS, a provider of cloud-native enterprise backup and disaster recovery services for AWS. Who, you might ask? N2WS is the company that powered Veeam’s AWS backup solution. To paraphrase Victor Kaim, Veeam liked the product …
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VMworld 2017 Las Vegas: Days Two and Three
Are your feet sore still? Did you remember to bring the good shoes? Well, day one was a blinder. Let’s see what happened on days two and three at VMworld. Traditionally, day one is about strategy and vision, and Pat scored well with a cogent keynote. Day two’s keynote started with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger …
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