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3 weeks ago | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

On March 18, 2025 Google Cloud announced an agreement to acquire Israeli security company Wiz for $32B. Pending regulatory approvals, the deal is expected to close in 2026 as an all cash transaction. Wiz is an agentless security tool, designed to run in multi-cloud environments. They tout an end-to-end platform, but their market toehold stems from the convenience of their multi-cloud scanning.

1 month ago | redmonk.com | Rachel Stephens

After ten months of regulatory review, on Feb 27 2025 IBM closed its acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4B (or $35/share in cash.) The RedMonk team has collectively been busy on the road, planning conferences, and writing books, but we still wanted to come together and share our thoughts on the merger. We’ll also share some initial reactions about the announcement of the intent to buy DataStax. Below is a team Q&A with our thoughts about the deals.

1 month ago | redmonk.com | James Governor

I encourage you to come to my intimate, inclusive (yeah we still care a lot about that), conference Monki Gras in London March 27th/28th. It’s about sustaining software craft in uncertain times. Expect interesting OSS maintainer talks, personal journeys and pragmatic takes on adoption of AI. The show is set to be a banger.

2 months ago | redmonk.com | James Governor

One of the surprisingly sticky parts of IT infrastructure over recent decades is, weirdly enough, the code editor or IDE. Sure, backend databases and transaction systems may have a long shelf life, but developers are like baby ducks with their mothers – once they imprint on an editor they’re Emacs or Vim for life. But suddenly we’re in a position where there is a surprising amount of turbulence in the market for editors.

Nov 13, 2024 | redmonk.com | James Governor

Cloudinary is an API-first image and video manipulation service. It takes images and videos and resizes or crops them, for portrait or landscape say, or makes AI-based edits. While not perhaps as well known a name as an API-driven business as Stripe or Twilio, it has built a successful business at scale by appealing to developers. The customer list is shiny – enterprise companies like Puma, FC Bayern Munich, Guess, Levi’s, Paul Smith, Puma and Rapha.