RESEARCH · MARKET TRENDS
Vendor strategy, market structure, and where the money moves
Analysis of acquisitions, platform shifts, funding models, and adoption patterns across AI and cloud — the market read behind the press release.
19 ENTRIES
The passport test, the kill-switch, and the restore-switch — what the Fable ban really says. A CloudDon Field Note, June 30, 2026.
Published by CloudDon Research* · May 1, 2026
What Cloud-Native Still Needs to Get Right?
12 Uncomfortable Predictions for the Post-Hype Era
Everyone is (or will be soon) building AI Agents. Nobody Is Watching What They Do When Left Alone. I Did. Here is Why You Should Care.
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My observations from KubeCon India, 2025.
Adoption benchmarks for GenAI and agentic AI in the first half of 2025 — deployment rates by industry, spend patterns, and where pilots are converting to production.
Evaluating the impact of AI Agents, one job at a time.
Introduction
Generative AI (GenAI) adoption continues to surge around the globe — but what does that really look like at the organizational level? Our…
Is Kubernetes Relevant now?
[Reposted from How large the GenAI opportunity is & how to differentiate? | LinkedIn]
TLDR: Heptio avoided being another Mirantis by taking up on this great offer
News
Cloud Native Transformations at SlingTV
Enterprise CIOs have been working on digitally transforming their IT infrastructure for a while now. Such digital transformations have…
TL;DR — Yes. With data gravity influencing where workloads go, not having a database/ DBaaS offering will limit Red Hat’s success as more…
2018 welcomed us with some of the scariest security vulnerabilities of all time: #Meltdown and #Spectre. As with all end of years, we a saw…