Matt Asay
Contributor
Matt Asay is a Principal at Amazon Web Services. Formerly, Asay was Head of Developer Ecosystem for Adobe. Prior to Adobe, Asay held a range of roles at open source companies: VP of business development, marketing, and community at MongoDB; VP of business development at real-time analytics company Nodeable (acquired by Appcelerator); VP of business development and interim CEO at mobile HTML5 start-up Strobe (acquired by Facebook); COO at Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux company; and head of the Americas at Alfresco, a content management startup. Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and holds a J.D. from Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues.
Public cloud winners take most
CIOs plan big increases in cloud spending in the coming year, with AWS and Azure first in line
Will complexity kill Kubernetes?
Kubernetes wouldn’t be the first huge open source project to collapse under its own weight, but its champions say it’s different
Hadoop runs out of gas
As big data customers flee complexity and embrace the cloud, the Hadoop vendors are sputtering
VMware gets its Kubernetes game on
After years in the background, VMware has emerged as a major contributor to the Kubernetes open source project
For open source vs. proprietary, AWS might have it both ways
If it’s careful to do its own open source too, AWS could mine Google’s open source investments for a long time
Oracle’s and IBM’s hybrid cloud defense may not hold
There's a lot of money on-premises, which keeps IBM and Oracle making money. But AWS, Microsoft, and even Google are targeting on-premises—with IT buy-in
Why Oracle is happy to lose to AWS and MongoDB
Open source and cloud developers lead the charge away from Oracle’s database, but they're not where Oracle makes its money
Should we be worried about programming languages?
Today, seemingly the only way a new programming language hits the big time is with the generous backing of a megacorp
Open source licenses may not matter so much any more
MongoDB's efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment
The ugly truth about cloud computing in the enterprise
Enterprise cloud governance is a mess as clouds become the new IT siloes, a sprawl disguised under the “multicloud” or “hybrid cloud” label
Cloud vendors are who’s powering open source now
Those “evil” cloud companies aren’t sucking the life out of open source—they’re the major contributors
Why IBM/Red Hat just might become a cloud powerhouse
AWS clearly leads the cloud pack among CIOs, and Microsoft has earned the No. 2 spot. But it’s not Google who could be No. 3.
AWS vs. open source: DocumentDB is the latest battlefront
In trying to prevent competition from AWS, vendors like MongoDB are undercutting open source. Ultimately, the battle could hurt both sides—and IT
Kubernetes is so hard—but worth the pain
2019 will be a challenging year for some enterprises as they try to turn Kubernetes hype into production reality
How to become a transformative enterprise in the cloud
Guardian Life shows why cloud computing isn’t a technology problem solved by moving workloads out of private data centers and into public clouds
AWS adds blockchain and time-series databases
With three major functional upgrades to existing databases as well, the full complement of purpose-built AWS databases is now 15
Why Google Cloud’s new boss will fail like the old boss
The Google culture doesn’t care about enterprise, and replacing one seasoned enterprise exec with another won’t change that fact
Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters
Linux is just plumbing. The real OS—the real value—is with Kubernetes
Microsoft’s attempt to fork Kubernetes via AKS will fail
Microsoft is a smart company, and increasingly savvy about open source. It should know better than to try to fork the container orchestration community
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