Financial goop on Cloudera and HortonWorks merging:
The deal for the merger of the two companies is surprisingly simple. Shareholders in Hortonworks will get 1.305 shares in Cloudera and Cloudera will be the remaining company in fact, if not necessarily in name. This means that Cloudera shareholders will own 60 percent of the combined company and Hortonworks shareholders will own the remaining 40 percent. The combined companies had a fully diluted equity value of $5.
Link: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition:
This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who bring in more than $1 million in revenue, and requires a lot of paperwork.
Original source: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
Link: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
Disrupters gonna disrupt, loans edition:
This type of loan is typically reserved for retailers who bring in more than $1 million in revenue, and requires a lot of paperwork.
Original source: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months. Oh boy.
Original source: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Despite attempts to educate the market, we still believe the word “serverless” connotes many different things, especially for the 79 percent of organizations that plan to adopt serverless architecture but have not planned to use FaaS in the next 18 months. Oh boy.
Original source: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
Link: Air Force wants to make 'Kessel Run' standard in tech acquisition
“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.”
Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition
Link: Air Force wants to make 'Kessel Run' standard in tech acquisition
“You’re probably going to see maybe a directive from us that basically says every acquisition is going to have to have something that looks like Kessel Run from the primes. So you want to have [authority to operate] within three or four weeks, not six years.”
Original source: Air Force wants to make ‘Kessel Run’ standard in tech acquisition
Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3
A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net expansion, adding some standard platform services (like a task scheduler), and Morlock stuff like multi-install (would you say “zone”?) OpenStack, and Kubernetes and embedded OS update:
Original source: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3
Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3
A laundry list of new feature and services in the software I market around. There’s a lot of .Net expansion, adding some standard platform services (like a task scheduler), and Morlock stuff like multi-install (would you say “zone”?) OpenStack, and Kubernetes and embedded OS update:
Original source: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3
Link: Pivotal and New Relic Deliver Visibility, Value, and Velocity
A nice listing of some metrics to monitor out of the box in PCF, and just performance metrics, but meatware and product related stuff too.
Original source: Pivotal and New Relic Deliver Visibility, Value, and Velocity