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Ben Yuretsky: DigitalOcean Is World's Fastest Growing Cloud Provider
“So, we're actually the fastest growing cloud provider on the planet today, and that's because we've built an experience that looks like nothing else that's out there.”
Uretsky: Over half of DigitalOcean's signups come from word-of-mouth recommendations
“And even to this day, over half of our customer signups come through a word of mouth recommendation, keeping our cost of acquisition really low and essentially creating a viral component to our business, which is really unheard of to think about, you know, a u…”
Uretsky: VMware's vCloud failed to gain traction due to its proprietary nature
“If we were running a VMware cloud, it wouldn't make sense to run open source, ah, on top of it, which is why I think VMware's, like, vCloud initiative hasn't necessarily hid the traction that they wanted to see.”
Uretsky: Open-source community fails at user onboarding and best practices
“And one thing that the open source community hasn't really done a great job of just yet is giving you a primer and getting you started on best practice implementation from day one.”
Uretsky: All Major Cloud Virtualization Engines Possess Equivalent Performance
“There are two or three popular ones. And it's kind of like, you know, Silicon used to build processors. No one has a substantially faster CPU than anyone else you know, today. And the same thing happens in virtualization. Everyone's virtualization engine is, i…”
Ben Uretsky: Linux containers will win over virtualization in public cloud
“Linux containers will win.”
Ben Uretsky: Intel will maintain its advantage over ARM in servers
“Intel. I wouldn't bet against them.”
Uretsky: DigitalOcean attracts 4 million monthly visitors via 1,500 developer tutorials
“So, to date, we've published 1500 tutorials that talk about how to leverage open source software. We're educating developers worldwide on how to write code, how to deploy applications, And we're drawing in four million unique visitors a month to this community…”
Yuretsky: Banks Own the Majority of DigitalOcean's Physical Servers
“In the majority of the servers that we use, we don't own directly either, and, you know, the banks actually own those physical assets”
Yuretsky: Consumers attribute product experience to platforms, not asset owners
“It's the interaction that a user has that really, ah, reigns supreme here, and that's what each one of our companies actually owns is that touch point with the user. As far as they're concerned, you know, it's DigitalOcean, it's Airbnb you know, it's local, lo…”
Ben Uretsky: Flash will replace spinning disks for primary storage
“Well, flash. I think that's a no-brainer.”
Uretsky: The majority of software on DigitalOcean virtual machines is open source
“The virtual machines that run on our cloud the majority of the software that's loaded on them is also open source.”