“Given the data we shared at the beginning of this post – 75% of the top 20 performing IPOs from the last four years went out at valuations below $1 billion – one would think we’d see this trend picking up steam. Recent sub-$1 billion IPOs by companies like SendGrid, Blackline and TradeDesk have all done very well. Our bet, however, is small cap IPOs will continue to be few and far between until a) the late stage private capital market gets more difficult, b) investment banks decide to focus on smaller deals, or c) the regulatory requirements of public companies are reduced.

“When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides east-west micro-segmentation of traffic between two VMs within the same network, is one of the strongest differentiators. BOSH is also a strong differentiator as well, in terms of offering self-healing capabilities. But being able to integrate with VMware tools is one of the key differentiators,” said Dul. Original source: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH

“When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides east-west micro-segmentation of traffic between two VMs within the same network, is one of the strongest differentiators. BOSH is also a strong differentiator as well, in terms of offering self-healing capabilities. But being able to integrate with VMware tools is one of the key differentiators,” said Dul. Original source: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH

“When we look at differentiators, I would say that there are a few and NSX-T, which provides east-west micro-segmentation of traffic between two VMs within the same network, is one of the strongest differentiators. BOSH is also a strong differentiator as well, in terms of offering self-healing capabilities. But being able to integrate with VMware tools is one of the key differentiators,” said Dul. Original source: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH

Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower

Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower

Automate all the DevOps. Original source: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

“It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes available.” Sounds cool. We’ll see. Apple often takes 2-3 years to actually have software that works well and is useful.

“Oracle’s positioning is that its later start to the cloud has provided the chance to learn all the lessons of the first-generation providers.” Good, deep (for word count) overview of Oracle’s cloud stuff. Original source: Oracle to market: We're Cloud 2.0