Pivotal has always been about making open-source tools for enterprise developers, but surprisingly, up until now, the arsenal has lacked a serverless component. That changed today with the alpha launch of Pivotal Function Service. “Pivotal Function Service is a Kubernetes-based, multi-cloud function service. It’s part of the broader Pivotal vision of offering you a single […]
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StubHub bets on Pivotal and Google Cloud as it looks to go beyond tickets
StubHub is best known as a destination for buying and selling event tickets. The company operates in 48 countries and sells a ticket every 1.3 seconds. But the company wants to go beyond that and provide its users with a far more comprehensive set of services around entertainment. To do that, it’s working on changing […]
View More StubHub bets on Pivotal and Google Cloud as it looks to go beyond ticketsPivotal CEO talks IPO and balancing life in Dell family of companies
Pivotal has kind of a strange role for a company. On one hand its part of the EMC federation companies that Dell acquired in 2016 for a cool $67 billion, but it’s also an independently operated entity within that broader Dell family of companies — and that has to be a fine line to walk. […]
View More Pivotal CEO talks IPO and balancing life in Dell family of companiesPivotal Software closed up 5% following IPO, raised $555 million
Stock market investors showed lukewarm enthusiasm for Pivotal Software’s debut on Friday. After pricing the IPO at $15, the company closed the day at $15.73. Although it didn’t “pop” for new investors, pricing at the midpoint of its proposed range allowed Pivotal to raise $555 million. Its public company market cap exceeded $3 billion. The enterprise […]
View More Pivotal Software closed up 5% following IPO, raised $555 millionKubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closer
Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer conference in Boston this week, is an interesting example for this. Outside […]
View More Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closerCloud Foundry Foundation looks east as Alibaba joins as a gold member
Cloud Foundry is among the most successful open source project in the enterprise right now. It’s a cloud-agnostic platform-as-a-service offering that helps businesses develop and run their software more efficiently. In many enterprises, it’s now the standard platform for writing new applications. Indeed, half of the Fortune 500 companies now use it in one form […]
View More Cloud Foundry Foundation looks east as Alibaba joins as a gold memberPivotal Software files for IPO
While everyone was looking at Dropbox’s debut, Pivotal Software dropped its IPO filing. The enterprise cloud computing company is majority-owned by Dell, which came about after its merger with EMC in 2016. It was spun off from Dell, EMC and VMWare in April 2013. Since then, it raised $1.7 billion in funding from Microsoft, Ford and […]
View More Pivotal Software files for IPOPivotal has something for everyone in the latest Cloud Foundry Platform release
Pivotal wants to be the development platform that serves everyone, and today at their SpringOne Platform (S1P) developer conference in San Francisco, they announced a huge upgrade to their Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform (PCF) that includes suppor…
View More Pivotal has something for everyone in the latest Cloud Foundry Platform release