Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by systemvoltage on Thursday February 10, 2022 @04:51PM
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If you listen to their earnings call, the CEO emphasizes that he wants Cloudflare to be positioned along side the Big Tech Cloud, not against. But, I think you're right. Cloudflare will slowly encroach into the space of Workers + Workers KV + Pages and double down on serverless + edge compute – chip away at Lambda/App-engine with a gateway type product to offer with it. Currently, they're mostly focused on CDN + ZeroTrust security.
Also they announced acquisition of Vetrix. I've never heard of it but seems interesting that they're venturing into app-level security market as well: https://cloudflare.net/news/news-details/2022/Cloudflare-Acq...
Cloudflare's genius is in offering free CDN service for most solo people. That seems to be like the way Photoshop allowed pirating of the software with little DRM control, get people to use the product first. I wish SalesForce did that, they have no free plan. For my scrappy company, we just use excel sheet for CRM.
Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by tthun on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:02PM
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Hubspot has a free tier.
Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by mobilewatch7 on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:36PM
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Salesforce does offer 10 free licenses for nonprofits.
Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by adar on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:24PM
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Does one count as a nonprofit if their company is losing money? :v
Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by syshum on Thursday February 10, 2022 @06:48PM
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even if you had saleforce it will all end up in excel anyway...
Re:Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 ...
by missedthecue on Thursday February 10, 2022 @05:21PM
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I think you mean $14B not $140B
(And these days it's a tad over $16B)
It’s clear people believe that CloudFlare have a good chance of seriously competing with the “big” players. AWS has quarterly revenue of about $140B, CloudFlare at about $0.2B has a lot of potential growth ahead.
Their strategy is clearly to expand into more of the cloud services industry. There are a few missing pieces currently (VPS, Containers, Database servers) but I’m confident they have plans in those areas.
The interesting thing is that they are approaching each area thy go into with new ideas. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if we see them make some acquisitions at some point.