Episode Details

This week we discuss the legacy of Puppet, Private Equity acquisitions and a few thoughts on Cloud Migrations. Plus, the five types of All Hands meetings…

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Rundown

• Perforce to acquire infrastructure as code pioneer Puppet
• The PE Yo-Yo
  • Thoma Bravo to take cybersecurity firm SailPoint private for $6.1 billion
  • Private equity giant KKR buys security firm Barracuda Networks
• How big could the cloud get? Part 1

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