Announcing Upbound Cloud Community Preview!

The fastest way to get started with the open source Crossplane project and build an enterprise control plane that layers on top of your existing infrastructure, giving you all the tools you need to build your own internal cloud platform -- the same way industry leaders build theirs!…

MulticloudCon talks are now live

84 percent of enterprises already have a multicloud strategy and most companies have an average of four clouds in use today. The multicloud community needed a place to convene and define what multicloud really means and share ways to be successful.…

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…