Latest Cloud Platform Updates: Zoom Fund, Docker Pricing, Databricks, KVSSD

Zoom announced the first round of investments from its $100 million Zoom Apps Development Fund, supporting startups building tools on the Zoom platform with investments ranging from $250 k to $2.5 M.

Docker introduced a subscription model for Docker Desktop, requiring paid plans (Pro $5/month, Team $7/month, Business $21 per user per month) for companies with over 250 employees or $10 M annual revenue.

Databricks raised $1.6 billion in a Series H round, valuing the company at $38 billion, to accelerate its Data Lakehouse product innovation and market expansion.

A recent cloud‑strategy survey by HashiCorp shows that multi‑cloud operations have become the standard for digital transformation, with many enterprises investing heavily in multi‑cloud infrastructure despite ongoing challenges.

The KVSSD paper presented at the 2018 DATE conference proposes a key‑value storage interface that tightly integrates LSM‑Tree and flash translation layer (FTL) to eliminate write amplification across software layers.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) will host the first Kubernetes Community Days in China, with events in Beijing (Oct 16) and Shanghai (Nov 6) to promote open‑source cloud‑native projects.

Zoom fund details: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/30/zoom-announces-first-startups-receiving-funding-from-100m-zoom-apps-investment-fund/

Docker subscription announcement: https://www.docker.com/blog/updating-product-subscriptions/

Databricks funding news: https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/31/databricks-raises-1-6b-at-38b-valuation-as-it-blasts-past-600m-arr/

HashiCorp cloud strategy survey: https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud#methodology

KVSSD paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8342070

Kubernetes Community Days info: https://community.cncf.io/kubernetes-community-days/about-kcd/