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Dell settles EMC’s patent dispute with Pure Storage
Dell Technologies Inc. is still tying up loose ends a month after completing its historic acquisition of EMC Corp. for $67 billion. Today, the technology giant took another item off the checklist by agreeing to settle a long-running patent dispute between its new storage subsidiary and Pure Storage Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The move puts ...
Gartner: Global IT spending will grow 2.9 percent in 2017
It looks like the IT industry is starting to regain its old momentum. After an estimated 0.3 percent decline in enterprise technology investment this year due to uncertainty caused by the Brexit referendum, Gartner Inc. expects to see a 2.9 percent spending jump during 2017. The research firms published its findings in a new report today that ...
HPE’s 2017 outlook signals a change in direction
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. aims to become a more focused company next year, targeting the hybrid cloud, the Internet of Things and services more than its traditional hardware. That was the message at the company’s annual meeting with Wall Street analysts this week, where HPE Chief Executive Meg Whitman and her top executives provided an update on ...
Syncsort now lets enterprises monitor mainframes with Splunk
As with all other mission-critical infrastructure, mainframe computers require organizations to monitor continuously for issues that might hinder their ability to function. But the task is made difficult by the fact that there isn’t an effective native mechanism for streaming operational logs from big iron deployments to external monitoring tools. Syncsort Inc. is working to ...
Zenefits updates HR platform with payroll management, partner links
Barely a month after partner-turned-rival Gusto Inc. announced a major expansion to its payroll processing platform, Zenefits Inc. is releasing an update of its own that promises to up the ante in the automation department. What should draw the most attention from customers is the Z2 release’s set of 17 integrations that make it possible ...
VMware adds more support for containers in new software
VMware Inc. today unveiled new versions of its management software that embraces application containers, a concept allowing applications to run on any machine that was once seen as arch-competitors of its computer virtualization software. The virtualization giant has unveiled new versions of its core management solutions that add extensive support for Docker along with expanded automation ...
Oblong raises $65M to bring Minority Report technology into the office
There are countless collaboration startups out there that promise to help organizations improve internal team communications, but few take their efforts as far as Oblong Industries Inc. The Los Angeles-based firm, which is working to bring visual sharing technology once only imagined in science fiction to the modern office, today closed a $65 million funding ...
New Equinix deal shows VMware hasn’t given up on vCloud Air
A growing number of organizations are setting up private network links between their data centers and infrastructure-as-a-service deployments to improve response times. In an effort to address this trend, VMware Inc. has tapped Equinix Inc. to provide dedicated connections for its vCloud Air platform. The newly announced partnership gives users reason for optimism amid the ...
Report: Sometimes private clouds are cheaper than public clouds
One of the main reasons why organizations flock to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services is that their pay-as-you-go infrastructure services are seen as more economical than buying expensive on-premises gear. But according to a newly published report from 451 Research, this is not necessarily the case for every company. The paper is the latest ...
Cisco acquires Worklife to boost Spark team collaboration service
Cisco Systems Inc. is aggressively scaling its collaboration business in response to the widening enterprise adoption of tools like Slack. Today, the networking giant acquired a startup called Heroik Labs Inc. for its popular Worklife service, which is described as a sort of Swiss Army Knife for managing office meetings. The application promises to help streamline the organization ...
