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EKS Anywhere, but where is Kubernetes?

This announcement highlights growth of multi-cloud as a platform play in coming days.
This announcement also underscores the importance of Kubernetes as a platform.
AWS is challenging not only Google’s Anthos , but it is squarely challenging IBM- Red Hat’s Openshift, Mirantis and other Kubernetes solution providers.
Lastly, this announcement also highlights the attempts by big tech companies to create lock-in one way or the other.

Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! Why?

Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! That is a whopping amount of money for a company who was making just $450 million in revenue. Compare this with another mega deal that we saw last year where IBM paid $34Billion to acquire Red Hat. But the difference is Red Hat was making $3.5Billion in revenue.Continue reading “Salesforce acquires Slack for almost $28Billion ! Why?”

Bringing open source software to Southeast Asia and India for 11 years

Open source software is at the center of technology and thereby business transformation. However, starting a business when it was very difficult to convince the enterprises to use open source software for business critical applications and running it for 11 years is an adventurous journey. Sharing some of those experiences and how we have contributedContinue reading “Bringing open source software to Southeast Asia and India for 11 years”