🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-08-27
Exploring changes in the VMware community, hot takes on funds, funding, M&A, and the evolving cloud landscape.
First… an interesting post arrived from VMworld. For perspective, my first VMworld experience was in 2010 and the community I met there would alter the course of my career for the next decade.
I was even a one time vExpert in 2013 within the massive VMware community aka vCommunity… and since then, well, things have changed. Things have changed — drastically.
And now, back to our regular Hot Takes Tuesday…
Funds, Funding, and M&A
Let’s take a look at where the money is flowing.
https://www.techmeme.com/240826/p9#a240826p9
💰 + 🥈 The secondary market is interesting but not as interesting as a $1B+ fund intended to take advantage of secondary market bargains.
https://www.techmeme.com/240827/p11#a240827p11
💰 + 📊 The hunt for better ways to harness data to deliver IT, security, and observability continues with the displacement of pre-cloud era solutions.
https://www.techmeme.com/240827/p12#a240827p12
💸 + ☁️ As I’ve said many times before, cloud fiscal responsibility (aka FinOps) is going to become synonymous with cloud excellence within the larger technology business management (TBM) space.
https://www.techmeme.com/240826/p22#a240826p22
📺 + 🤖 Perhaps I’m just not creative enough to be a video creator, but I get a vibe that ethically sourced ingredients is crossing over from food supply chains into A.I. video services training corpus chains.
https://www.techmeme.com/240827/p22#a240827p22
⚖️ + 🤖 Forensic examination of large volumes of materials in discover is arguably a better use case for RAG than attempting to cite a so-called hallucination.
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