RIA Weekly

Calling in hot from New Braunfels Texas, we got a country mile’s worth of topics this week: we have container services from Microsoft, a lengthy discussion of how enterprise software companies organize their global sales regions, the possible emergence of a new private cloud meme, and rumors that BMC is no longer in acquiring CA. Also, be sure to check out this week’s white paper analysis for patrons, on IoT (https://www.patreon.com/posts/trillion-iot-by-13636097). Global expansion tips and tricks “EMEAians.” Open source as the scouts. Microsoft laying off 19,000 people Link (http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-starts-layoffs-with-reportedly-thousands-of-job-cuts/) Who’s hirin’? Microsoft Container Service What’s a “container service” (https://www.geekwire.com/2017/microsoft-launches-new-container-service-joins-cloud-native-group-isolating-aws-kubernetes/)? TechCrunch notices private cloud Link (https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/all-clouds-dont-have-to-be-public/) Vendors have begun offer