“Despite its uncertainties, the federal government wants to get to the cloud; in fact, it wants to double current progress. According the survey, only 23 percent of federal infrastructure services have moved, or are in the process of moving, to the cloud. The goal is 43 percent by the end of this year. That’s not going to happen” Why Federal Government is Still Behind the Cloud Curve

The recording for my talk at DevOpsDaysDays Chicago is up. As I mention in the opening, it has some material from my previous talks but is also pretty updated with new tips and tricks, as it were. Here’s the slides if you like that sort of thing. (And, here’s the clown zombie, from Day of the Dead.)

Including an estimate (11.5m?) of the number of developers globally. Application Developers Alliance

’“Google is not an enterprise company and we are trying to become cognizant of what the enterprise needs,” Craig McLuckie, Google’s product manager in charge of its Kubernetes and Google Container Engine' Google Hopes Open Source Will Give Its Cloud A Path To The Enterprise

SaaS Seen Driving Enterprise Software Sales

“IDC states that worldwide RDBMS revenue will grow to 41B by 2019. And, 5.7B of that will be public cloud RDBMS. So, while RDMBS revenue will grow at 4.0% CAGR, the public cloud CAGR will be 50.3%!” Datical is Cloud Native - with database market sizing numbers

“‘We’ve gone from signing about $1 million in new business every month to $1 million every week,’ [Mirantis] CEO Adrian Ionel said recently.” You could do some spreadsheets if you spitballer non-new business and estimated when the switch over happened. Something like $12m to $20m a year? Mirantis funding, revenue estimate

Verizon Selects Mesosphere DCOS as Nationwide Platform for Data Center Service Orchestration - MarketWatch

“The challenges are cultural, organisational, and technical. According to the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey, which petitioned over 700 senior IT decision makers, over 67 per cent of enterprises plan to implement multiple cloud services over the next 18 months, but close to 70 per cent were worried about how those services would integrate with other cloud services and 90 per cent were concerned about how they will integrate those cloud services with their legacy or on-premise services.

Pivotal CEO change, chart on enterprise mobile app desires