The Business of Open Source

In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, we talk about the hard business goals behind words like "freedom" as well as what it's like to go from engineer to CEO. My guest, Sirish Raghuram, is the CEO and co-founder of Platform9.Links: https://platform9.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sirishraghuram/

In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, Shawn Lankton talks about how Microsoft 365 and related applications fit into an organization's move to the cloud and why organizations need to pay attention to security for all their SaaS applications.  Links: https://www.coreview.comShawn on Twitter

Thomas Markey talks about how to remove some of the barriers to running an open source project with free hosting services.  Links: https://fosshost.orgThomas on LinkedInFOSSHOST on TwitterDiscord

Ranjan Parthasarathy talks about why separating compute and storage makes it easier to operate at hyper scale and why he decided to found Logiq.ai to make it easier for companies to do so. Links: LinkedInLogiq.ai

Have you thought about how your OSS license could impact your ability to grow your community and monetize your OSS in the future? Attorney McCoy Smith talks about what to be aware of at the beginning to avoid messy legal issues down the road. Links: McCoy on LinkedIn Lex Pan LawOpsequ.io

As an analyst at CCS insight, Bola Rotibi gets a birds-eye view of trends in how industries use software to advance their business goals. We had an incredible conversation about how companies use cloud native technology to meet business goals and how vendors in the cloud native space should pay more attention to the needs of specific industries. Links: https://www.ccsinsight.com/blog/author/bolarotibi/https://www.linkedin.com/in/bolarotibi/https://twitter.com/bolarotibi

SaaS companies that handle customers' sensitive data need to worry about how they manage data locality. In this podcast, Canopy CTO and founder talks about how their business would not be possible without the flexibility and ability to easily spin up resources in regions across the world that a cloud native architecture offers. Links: https://www.canopyco.iohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/oransears

Here's what I covered in this episode: What positioning and market segmentation is and is notThe specific positioning challenges facing companies in the cloud native ecosystemWhy it's important to identify and talk about the types of application your product benefits the mostThanks for listening, and happy new year!

Jim Bugwadia, CEO and co-founder of Nirmata, talks about what has changed (and what has stayed the same) since the company started in 2013. Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimbugwadia/https://nirmata.comhttps://kyverno.io

In episode 29 of The Business of Cloud Native, I talked to Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot Research about trends he sees in how end users use cloud native technologies and how startups in the space can meet end users where they are.  Links: https://rishidot.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnansubramanian/https://twitter.com/krishnan