“‘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

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“As of early June, Mesosphere said Yelp is launching more than 1 million Docker containers a day using its framework. Shah said this week about 20 percent of Yelp web sites are running on DCOS.” Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches

Donkey teamwork What’s the point of it all? Why are we doing this? These questions pop up frequently in IT teams where the reason for doing your daily activities — like churning through tickets, whizzing up builds, or “doing the DevOps” — seems only that someone, somewhere told you to do it. If you’re in this situation — you have no idea how your activities are helping your organization make money — you should stop and find out quickly what your company’s goals and strategies are to make sure you’re not wasting time.

Why Docker is Not Yet Succeeding Widely in Production

“When Apple moved to bare metal with Mesos, one of the big reasons why they did it was, first, they did not need the virtual machines and, second, they got a big performance improvement. The virtualization tax that we often talk about is very real and for Apple it was on the order of 30 percent. Removing it meant Apple could run Siri jobs 30 percent faster, which is a really big deal.

“Together, the teams were able to reduce deployment times from 14 hours to 14 minutes, facilitated by Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s integration with Jenkins and Gradle build systems. Since this pilot, Pivotal Cloud Foundry has had zero downtime. It is being maintained by just two operators, using their preferred tools: Logstash, DataDog and PagerDuty. Furthermore, it runs in Axel Springer’s chosen datacenter on European soil.” Axel Springer | Case Study | Pivotal