
DevOps Automation Platform Zeet Raises $4.3 Million
Zeet, which bills itself as an “integrated DevOps and deployment platform for software developers” has raised $4.3 million in a seed round lead by Sequoia Capital.

#2 Rearranging Deckchairs
Cooling public markets, corporate layoffs, and skittish VCs, but also good news for infosec which continues to be a growth industry because it’s a neverending binfire.

Google Acquires CloudSimple To Bring VMware Customers To Its Cloud
CloudSimple is currently the main mechanism for running VMware on Azure and GCP, while VMware on AWS is jointly engineered between VMware and AWS.
Microsoft Makes Clear Play For Mission Critical Cloud
Microsoft open new Azure regions for Australian government data. Is this a new front in the cloud wars?
Scale Computing Gets Cloudy With Google
Scale Computing has partnered with Google to launch Cloud Unity, connecting on-site HCI clusters with ones in the cloud.
VMware Gets Its Mojo Back At VMworld 2017
VMware has stopped apologizing for existing and has gotten its mojo back.
SwiftStack Cosies Up To Google, Goes Multi-Cloud
SwiftStack collaborates with Google to promote its multi-cloud approach to object storage.
AWS Outage Doesn’t Change Anything
If the latest AWS outage changes anything in your approach to cloud adoption, then you’re doing it wrong. This is not the first AWS outage (I first wrote about one in 2011, back when I had hair), nor will it be the last.