Episode Details

There’s lots of monitoring and systems management M&A and funding this week, so we talk about the cycle of systems management companies. It seems like Atlassian is starting up and operations product line with the OpsGeniue acquisition, and PagerDuty has a whopping valuation at $1.3bn. With rumors that Adobe might buy Marketo, Coté recounts the RIA days and how Adobe ended up doing a good job surviving, despite RIA

• Americano coffee vs long black.
• “Mo’ digital, mo’ problems” - With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems
• Enterprise hits and misses - blockchain is a paradox; AI is a customer service automater
• Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company
• New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round
• Atlassian to pay $295M for Boston-based OpsGenie
  • Nancy Gohring and co analyze the deal.
• No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it's Going to Look Different: “The work of operations is changing and the skills required to do that work are changing. The platforms and tools involved are evolving (but don't forget the decades of legacy code that isn't!). Organizational silos are breaking down, and developers and operators are co-mingling as peer engineers.”
• Jenkins: Shifting Gears - Coté: recently, I don’t think I’ve heard any one say “yay! Jenkins!” What’s the deal with it? Is Jenkins now bad?
• Vapor IO Raises PE Funding, Buys Out Nascent Edge Colocation Business from Crown Castle
• In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free
• Adobe in talks to buy marketing software firm Marketo - sources
  • “Adobe, which has a market capitalization of $130 billion, has topped analysts’ profit and revenue estimates for the past eight quarters, driven by strength in its digital media business, which houses its flagship product Creative Cloud.”
  • Johnny Leadgen is interested.
  • Adobe really pulled off a successful strategy. Geoffrey More’s systems of interaction (‘member that?), some CMS/marketing analytics engines, and then moving CS to SaaS. Pretty amazing, considering all the other road-kill out the