There are two distinct things going on in the world of IT. The first is the huge growth of a small number of mega-scale cloud computing vendors. Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure, and Google’s Cloud Platform hold an ever-increasing…

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I’m a big fan of developer tools as a way to speed up the creation of software. It’s a pretty simple concept if you were to go back in time a decade, back to when Uber first launched, there…

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First, there was compute. And it was good. And then came monitoring. And that, too, was good. Finally, Firewalls were created, and all was at peace in the land (or, at least, in the land of DigitalOcean). That peace…

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Well, here’s an interesting piece of funding and M&A news – a coming together of two different vendors and a chest full of look for the pair of them. SecureAuth is a vendor in the enterprise security space. They…

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Reading TechCrunch and the other big Silicon Valley blogs, you’d be forgiven for believing that anything less than a billion dollar valuation constitutes utter failure. Silicon Valley has, of course, always been about fast growth and big values, but…

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Last year when I attended Hitachi’s conference, I spent some time thinking about how broad the Hitachi group of companies really was. After all, this group, which has existed for over 100 years, employees over 300,00 people worldwide and…

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When it comes to news in the Kubernetes world, my cup really does runneth over. Last week was a big one for announcements from Kubernetes service providers and new members of the Cloud Native Container Foundation (CNCF) while this…

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Twilio has gained prominence as perhaps the quintessential developer tool company. Twilio’s founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson, has long spoken about “enabling the doers,” the video below, over six years old now, shows a Lawson (with considerably more hair…

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You know what really annoys me? When participants in an ecosystem purport to be all about the founders, and supportive of the early-stage companies, but act in an entirely different manner. A case in point: a company that I’m…

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Back in the old days, any organization wanting to crunch some of its data would have to invest in big, monolithic data warehousing systems, complex analysis applications with arcane languages and requirements, and highly-skilled personnel to wrangle all of…

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