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Redpoint perspectives on distributed computing, cloud-infrastructure, developer tools, open source and security.
Introducing Redpoint’s Software Testing Landscape
Introducing Redpoint’s Software Testing Landscape
Software testing is a large and growing market. It is experiencing Devopsification including increasing automation, expediting time to…
Happy First Birthday Istio! 🎉
Happy First Birthday Istio! 🎉
Yesterday Istio celebrated its first birthday. As we discussed in our microservices trends report, service meshes have seen an explosion of…
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): More Code, Less Toil
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): More Code, Less Toil
In 2003 Google created the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position. SRE teams have spread throughout the industry, and there are now ~25K…
KubeCon Leaves Its Mark on Copenhagen
KubeCon Leaves Its Mark on Copenhagen
Cloud-native technologies continue to grow in popularity and last week Copenhagen, Denmark hosted one of the community’s largest events…
Tech IPO Market Heats Up
Tech IPO Market Heats Up
Five months into 2018 sixteen technology companies have gone public compared to nine during the same time period last year. Five consumer…
GDPR Top of Mind at RSA
GDPR Top of Mind at RSA
This week we attended the RSA Conference, one of the largest security conferences in the world with over 45,000 attendees, 650 exhibitors…
Carbon Black S-1 Analysis — Not the Endpoint, Just the Beginning
Carbon Black S-1 Analysis — Not the Endpoint, Just the Beginning
Carbon Black, the endpoint security and predictive analytics company, filed to go public this week and is seeking to raise $100M. Founded…
Public Security Companies’ Multiple Volatility
Public Security Companies’ Multiple Volatility
It has been an exciting quarter for the security market. Zscaler IPOed at $16 per share for total gross proceeds of approximately $192…
Pivotal S-1 Analysis — The First Cloud Native Business to IPO
Pivotal S-1 Analysis — The First Cloud Native Business to IPO
Pivotal, the cloud software company that spun out of DellEMC and VMware, filed for an IPO last Friday to raise $100M. Pivotal is the first…
4 Themes From the Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS)
4 Themes From the Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS)
This week we attended The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS) in Sonoma. Over the past three decades infrastructure…
Serverless Cloud Native Landscape: New from Redpoint Ventures and the Cloud Native Computing…
Serverless Cloud Native Landscape: New from Redpoint Ventures and the Cloud Native Computing…
In October 2017 Redpoint released our Function as a Service (FaaS) landscape that identified over 50 FaaS offerings. The tremendous…
Docker’s Head of Security David Lawrence: on TUF, Notary, and the importance of software security
Docker’s Head of Security David Lawrence: on TUF, Notary, and the importance of software security
Last Fall the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) added two open-source security projects to its roster, Notary and The Update…