Tobi Knaup, D2iQ | D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native 2019
Tobi Knaup, Co-founder & CTO, D2iQ, talks with Jeff Frick at D2iQ HQ in San Francisco, CA. #D2iQ #theCUBE https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/26/no-free-puppy-how-d2iq-helps-customers-navigate-open-source-journey-in-cloud-native-world-d2iq/ No free puppy: How D2iQ helps customers navigate open-source journey in cloud-native world What do free goldfish, puppies, and open-source software have in common? When the gifts come home, there’s actually a lot of time and expense that goes into keeping them all alive and thriving. As much as open-source tools have been a major contributing factor in advancing the cause of technology for enterprise businesses today, it still takes a village to support these increasingly critical solutions. Many of the most widely used open-source tools sprang from large companies that had the resources and support systems to nurture them. The highly popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes came from Google LLC. The open-source stream-processing platform Kafka was developed and donated by LinkedIn Corp. Cassandra, a storage system for handling large amounts of information across multiple servers, was originally created by developers at Facebook Inc. to handle the social media giant’s inbox search functionality. The list goes on, and this dynamic represents a business opportunity for any company willing to step in and help customers adopt and nurture the free puppy of open-source software. “When those companies deployed these systems internally, they had a lot of supporting infrastructure around it,” said Tobi Knaup (pictured), co-founder and chief technology officer of D2iQ Inc. “All of that supporting infrastructure is what an enterprise also needs to develop in order to adopt open-source software, and that’s a big part of what we do.” Knaup spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native event in San Francisco. During the event, Frick also interviewed Chandler Hoisington, senior vice president of engineering and product at D2iQ, and Brian Kenyon, chief strategy officer at the company. They discussed the company’s recent rebranding, new releases from D2iQ in 2019, the need for expertise in open-source security, and the evolving role of machine-learning tools to help customers in cloud-native environments (* Disclosure below.)