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Redpoint perspectives on distributed computing, cloud-infrastructure, developer tools, open source and security.
Cloudflare S-1 Analysis — Do they have an edge?
Cloudflare S-1 Analysis — Do they have an edge?
CDN provider Cloudflare recently filed its S-1 with $100M as a placeholder for the offering. Similar to recently IPO-ed Fastly, Cloudfare…
Our Investment in Opsani — Continuous Cloud Optimization
Our Investment in Opsani — Continuous Cloud Optimization
During my time on Cisco’s Corporate Development team I supported the UCS server division and had a firsthand view of the massive shift in…
Dynatrace S-1 Analysis — Tracing a Transition
Dynatrace S-1 Analysis — Tracing a Transition
Dynatrace, which offers a software intelligence platform, recently priced its IPO range from $11-$13/share. At the mid-point of the range…
Analysis: Public Cybersecurity Companies
Analysis: Public Cybersecurity Companies
Over the last week, Crowdstrike’s IPO has taken the public markets by storm. At one-point, Crowdstrike was the second highest valued…
3 Themes from the Velocity Conference 2019
3 Themes from the Velocity Conference 2019
This week we attended the Velocity Conference in San Jose, CA. Velocity focuses on best practices and tools for building, deploying, and…
Comparing Publicly Traded DevOps Companies
Comparing Publicly Traded DevOps Companies
Today there are five standalone publicly traded DevOps companies, Fastly, New Relic, Pivotal, PagerDuty, and Splunk. These publicly traded…
Deepfakes: What’s real with synthetic data?
Deepfakes: What’s real with synthetic data?
With the upcoming CVPR conference, we thought it would be useful to highlight an emerging trend in computer vision, synthetic data…
Crowdstrike S-1 Analysis — Rising Above the Crowd
Crowdstrike S-1 Analysis — Rising Above the Crowd
This week Crowdstrike, which helps prevent security breaches, filed a $100M S-1, with the amount as a placeholder. It is the first…
Fastly S-1 Analysis — Accelerating the Edge
Fastly S-1 Analysis — Accelerating the Edge
Around this time last year we saw the first DevOps company IPO, Pivotal. Now developers’ voices are being heard at the edge with Fastly’s…
Recapping the Data Engineering Conference SF
Recapping the Data Engineering Conference SF
Earlier this year we called out 2019 as the year of the data engineer, and this week we attended the Data Engineering Conference in San…