Mergers & Acquisitions: Rancher by SUSE

Not the last for sure...

Interesting news came across my email this past week in that SUSE is acquiring Rancher for an undisclosed sum of money. According to Rancher, the deal should close around October of this year.

The CEO of SUSE posted this post about the merger and Sheng Liang, the CEO of Rancher posted this blurb as well.

Over the last couple of years we’ve seen several CNA related tech companies get acquired - NGINX by F5 for around $670 million, CoreOS by Red Hat for $250 million, Pivotal by VMWare for $2.7 billion to name a few. You add in some of the CNA security-related mergers and acquisitions over the past 18 months and this list would be tripled in size.

The CNA world is fast-moving. A lot of innovative startups are growing rapidly and the bigger, established players are buying them up to add their unique IP to their existing portfolio.

More changes are incoming. That’s part of life in IT. What you can control is how you (and your company) adapts to these new technologies and changes. Don’t be afraid of the new tech. IT is full of disruptive technologies. You just need to plan well and continue to learn!

(source: https://thenewstack.io/k3s-expanded-ranchers-leadership-and-will-be-crucial-for-suses-kubernetes-success/)

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Tweet of the Week

Craig Peters @peterscraig

A new blog highlights how the #Windows @kubernetesio special interest group is a great place to contribute!

kubernetes.ioSIG-Windows SpotlightSIG-Windows Spotlight This post tells the story of how Kubernetes contributors work together to provide a container orchestrator that works for both Linux and Windows. Most people who are familiar with Kubernetes are probably used to associating it with Linux. The connection makes sense, since Kuber…

Knowledge Overload

Few upcoming webinars around cool tech for those interested:

• Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience: Open House - [July 15] ~ Free

• Remote Work in the “New Normal” - [pre-recorded on July 9] ~ Free

• Learn How to Clean Up Your Cloud-Native “DevOps Dumping Ground” - [July 17] ~ Free

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The Mental Break

Mental therapy with speedcubing! This is not your childhood Rubik’s cubes for sure. Great ‘fidget’ therapy for those long Zoom calls.

• https://speedcubeshop.com/collections/3x3-speed-cubes

• https://www.reddit.com/r/cubers

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