The investment market for infrastructure software is difficult now. Some might put it another way, but I think it's challenging given the way that current marke

The investment market for infrastructure software is difficult now. Some might put it another way, but I think it's challenging given the way that current market model choice moves back and forth between a preference for private or public offerings. Consider the evolution steps from MSPs to SaaS. Of late, offerings that provide a hybrid approach to software seem to be emerging. Gravitational and Relicated are examples of toolsets for these types of modelss. Take logging as a service and the more traditional self hosted log solution. What would work best users would be one piece of software, which could run both on-premise and in the cloud on someone else's servers, or even someone else's service. On-prem, it might be managed by those who wrote it. Hosted, it might represent a segment of a larger market play for intelligent time series analytics and sold as a monthly revenue rollup. Deploying these types of models will be interesting, but it's totally doable using some type of lightweight federation across services. Sandstorm represented a portion of the infrastructure needed to do simple deployments that felt like a hosted service. A service proving cryptocurrency payments for their APIs might be another piece of the puzzle. I continue thinking about these new markets as new technology enables them.