The Infra Play #89: Reports from the field
This week we dig into multiple industry report that reveal how are GTM teams performing (and getting rewarded for it).
The Infra Play #88: The implications of ASI
Exploring the idea of AI to it’s most transformational end.
The Infra Play #86: Purple rain
Deep dive into SentinelOne and their struggle for a place under the (cyber) sun.
The Infra Play #84: Cybersecurity in 2024
The winners in cybersecurity often seem obvious in retrospect and typically there are very few of them.
The Infra Play #83: Let’s harden some images
Chainguard is one of the most interesting cybersecurity startups right now in the industry with one of the few with a strong product that reduces risk in the software supply chain.
The Infra Play #82: Letters from Stripe
The Stripe play for becoming the “default” programmable infrastructure of doing business.
The Infra Play #81: How do you like them containers?
This week we will take a look at the importance of containers in the context of deploying applications and the tech sales opportunity at Docker.
The Infra Play #80: Q4’24 in cloud infrastructure software
We are back to the regular deep dive into the hyperscaler (AWS/Azure/GCP) earnings calls as the guiding pulse of where the cloud infrastructure software market is going.
The Infra Play #79: Software and real-world security operations
What happens when every company takes seriously that idea that they are a technology company and can just build stuff that solves real world problems?
The Infra Play #78: Tesla and the bet on real-world AI
With autonomous driving mostly a foregone conclusion, the next big frontier is humanoid robotics. If they are able to execute on that vision, Tesla has a path to becoming the most valuable company in the world.
The Infra Play #77: AI gets political
Value accrues at the bottom of the stack, and that value is about to grow exponentially under a new administration. However, the implications go beyond just economics.
The Infra Play #76: SaaS spending patterns in 2024
We are still far off from what companies used to spend at the peak of the tech bull market.
The Infra Play #75: It’s NVIDIA’s world, you are just living in it
Deep dive into NVIDIA's strategy for 2025-2027 and it’s implications for tech sales.
The Infra Play #74: Cybersecurity ecosystem health check
Cybersecurity funding for early stage companies has seen a significant jump compared to the bear market of 2H'22 and '23.
The Infra Play #73: 2024 in AI and the path forward
2024 was a "building" year - the time when we set up the foundations that we will build upon going forward. It was not about easy wins or victory laps but grinding through the work that needs doing.
The Infra Play #72: What does “second place” looks like in cybersecurity
Fortinet has been in the business for 25 years and it really shows. Their strategy and scale is a reflection of iterative steps taken over the decades to build a comprehensive cybersecurity platform (on paper).