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The technology industry is one of mass temporality and today’s hottest new thing often becomes forgotten at the dawn of tomorrow. I can think back to a number of times over the past decades when a particular technology approach…

Back in the deep recesses of history (and, given that this is technology, history is a fluid term. I’m speaking here of five years ago), Cloud Foundry was incubated within VMware as an answer to the pretty obvious market…

We’re all very aware of how Google has used Borg, its internal container orchestration platform, to seemingly effortlessly scale its own infrastructure. And we also know that many cutting-edge organizations are using Kubernetes, the open source project directly descended…

Large technology vendors are known for many things, but humility isn’t one of them. Even the most visionary and deeply philanthropic of large vendors has a stroke of hubris alongside their other traits. This is true of Salesforce as…

Portworx is a company that was set up to help organizations manage the challenge of wrangling databases and stateful applications within a container infrastructure world. When Docker first popularized the notion of containers for cloud-native applications, it quickly became…

It’s always fascinating to hear that an early stage company has appointed a new CEO. While it is admittedly rare for a founder CEO to take a company through to a successful large-scale outcome (and a tip of the…

I was meant to be in Boston last week for the Cloud Foundry summit. Alas, a triple booking meant I couldn’t make it which was actually pretty disappointing – I’ve been watching the Cloud Foundry movement since its very…

Scality has been around for awhile now, founded back around 2010, the storage player was the first to build a commercial storage offering with a full fidelity interface to Amazon S3 – back when Amazon S3 was still largely…

Chef has, ever since the cloud was invented, focused on automating infrastructure. Back in the early days of cloud that was a fairly simple thing to achieve: just set your standard server specification and watch as your virtual servers…

Ka-pow! News today that Red Hat is acquiring CoreOS for the not unhealthy sum of $250 million – approximately a 5* uplift on the company’s latest funding round. Red Hat is, of course, best known for its enterprise Linux…