For me, it was a bunch of numbers. You can convince a bunch of VCs with numbers. The churn was low. The revenue was up. Talking to the customers, the sentiment was that this could grow within their companies. There was a huge market with cloud-based file sharing with both consumers but also enterprises.
And, on pivoting to “enterprise”:
In 2007, the consumer market was still the target at Box.
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People are much more interested in running PaaS in-house than not in-house. We see a lot of interest in PaaS but very little interest necessarily in running PaaS on cloud infrastructures. I think broadly, this is going to be much more of the era of private cloud infrastructure as a service, more so than PaaS. PaaS is still in its early days, much earlier days than IaaS.
People are much more interested in running PaaS in-house than not in-house. We see a lot of interest in PaaS but very little interest necessarily in running PaaS on cloud infrastructures. I think broadly, this is going to be much more of the era of private cloud infrastructure as a service, more so than PaaS. PaaS is still in its early days, much earlier days than IaaS.
Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s OpenStack training and certification program.
Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s OpenStack training and certification program.
Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
VMware launches "desktop as a service" offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report)
Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up.
Here’s the 451 Take:
VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to be giving virtual desktops a new breath of life. There’s been a steady increase in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, tightly coupled with the fragmentation of the PC market brought on by mobility: tablets, Apple and Android – not to mention the continued spread of the Web as a major ‘platform.
VMware launches "desktop as a service" offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report)
Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up.
Here’s the 451 Take:
VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to be giving virtual desktops a new breath of life. There’s been a steady increase in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, tightly coupled with the fragmentation of the PC market brought on by mobility: tablets, Apple and Android – not to mention the continued spread of the Web as a major ‘platform.
Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud
In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see.
Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud
In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see.
Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
DigitalOcean gets $37.2m from a16z, with ~100k customers
Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the case: at around 5,000 Intel-powered Dell and SuperMicro servers the company fields around five percent of Rackspace’s fleet, and at most one per cent of Amazon’s.
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This funding caps off a period of torrential growth for the company. In January 2013, it had about 2,000 customers and by the end of the year it was closer to 100,000, Uretsky said.