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Money for IaaS, money for streaming data

Money for IaaS, money for streaming data

By Paul Miller on July 9, 2015

$83 million for Digital Ocean, with its bare-bones spin on cloud-based infrastructure… and $24 million for Confluent, the company behind Apache Kafka. Digital Ocean’s not an AWS-killer (and doesn’t think it is, either), and Kafka addresses a rather specific set of use cases around messaging between devices and/or application components… but both are solid pieces of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged apache kafka, aws, awscloud, ben kepes, big data, cloud computing, confluent, digital ocean, iaas, jonathan vanian, open source, streaming data, tftd

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