Introducing Catio

“Good design is not about making decisions based on personal taste. It’s about making decisions based on data, research, and user feedback.” — Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram

As the cloud native services landscape erupts (1,200 providers now, with $19T in enterprise value, and 23 companies and growing with over $1B in revenue), so does the appetite for cloud-native excellence among companies far and wide focused on tech-driven success, with Gartner predicting 95% of all new apps to be cloud-native by 2025. However, the promise of the cloud-native opportunity is being only partly fulfilled, as companies struggle to navigate the growing complexity in selecting the right architectures, optimizing the cost performance of their tech stacks over time, and choosing the best cloud native services to fulfill their business objectives.

Companies have evolved to pursue being tech-driven as essential not to just success, but to survival, as the mantra of “tech-driven or die” spreads across every industry and every geography. They are queuing onto microservice architectures and cloud-native tech stacks as the promise for this excellence, in much the same way as mass production ushered in that opportunity a century earlier in manufacturing, driving massive efficiencies and scale from specialization and sourcing of best-of-breed and most cost effective components. And yet the path to tech-enabled excellence is marred by complexity of choice and adoption, due to the growing fragmentation of the CNCF landscape. CTOs and Tech Leads, and their executive and board counterparts, find themselves navigating uncertainty between adopting the most heavily marketed solutions or trusting an organic architecture expertise which is increasingly more difficult to hone and keep up to date. Companies seek a better answer — a company-centric solution for objectively managing their tech stack planning lifecycle.

“As MongoDB evangelist Matt Asay recently wrote for InfoWorld, “The real story on cloud these days is who can integrate diverse cloud services best. The cloud is about to become much more interesting, precisely by becoming much more boring.”

Further, the growth in cloud native adoption is also leading to an out of proportion growth in tech spend, and the tech debt is also starting to mount as tech stacks mature as cloud native. Companies are struggling to figure out how to contain spend and manage down their tech debt, all while achieving the desired performance and capability, without the necessary visibility into the cost performance of the makeup of their tech stacks. The CTOs and Tech Leads lack the tools to evaluate and make the best decisions, while the business stakeholders from executives to investors lack the visibility and transparency to weigh the right trade-offs with their tech teams and gain the confidence behind their decisions. Companies are clamoring for insight into mitigating spend and tech debt through course corrections, as well as to set themselves up for ongoing success from the get-go.

Catio is focused on enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, under the slogan “Microservices Bravely”, by aiding the evaluation, planning, and evolution of their tech stacks amongst the key stakeholders. Catio’s platform will surface the data and the tools needed to plan and evolve optimal tech stack architectures, create transparency and validation across the chosen tech stacks and their operations, and inform tech stack decisions as a trusted advisor throughout companies’ tech stack lifecycles.

Catio will equip teams to build and evolve best-of-breed cloud native tech stacks with confidence and help companies achieve the much sought after tech-driven success!

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