Introducing Crossplane: Open Source Multicloud Control Plane

Today we are introducing Crossplane [https://github.com/crossplaneio/crossplane] , the open source multicloud control plane. It exposes workload and resource abstractions on-top of existing managed services that enables a high degree of workload portability across cloud providers. A single crossplane enables the provisioning and full-lifecycle management of services and…

Managed Services Don’t Always Lead to Vendor Lock-In

If you are running in a public cloud, your applications and services are likely consuming numerous managed platform services. While your code is deployed in VMs, containers or functions, it’s likely depending on platform services like databases, message queues, analytics, big data, AI, ML and many others. What makes…

Deep Red: The Beginning of the End of a Familiar Open Source Business Model?

In a surprise move, IBM announced [https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider?lnk=ushpv18l1&lnk2=learn] that they are going to acquire Red Hat. At $34B, this is one of the largest software acquisitions in history. This blog post walks through some of the implications of this acquisition on Commercial…