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Dell completes historic $67B acquisition of EMC
The drama is finally over. Nearly a year after announcing an audacious $67 billion bid for EMC Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. today officially announced that the deal is done. The combined companies begin doing business today under the Dell Technologies brand. It has actually been all over but the shouting since July 19, when 98 ...
BMC sketches road map for its customers’ digital transformation
BMC Software Inc. kicked off its global user conference today by outlining a seven-part initiative based upon digital transformation and rolled out two new automation products aimed at DevOps and digital business. The roadmap that BMC CEO Robert E. Beauchamp laid out to attendees builds on the Digital Enterprise Management strategy the company laid out ...
What’s holding back containers? Red Hat evangelist has some ideas
To hear Scott McCarty say it, the biggest barriers to the adoption of software containers in the enterprise are as much political as they are technical. McCarty (@fatherlinux, below left), whose role as a solutions architect specializing in containers at Red Hat Inc. has him traveling the world to educate and evangelize the value of ...
IBM study: Top performers have their hybrid cloud act together
Nearly 80 percent of C-level executives say their cloud efforts are coordinated or fully integrated, up from just 34 percent four years ago. That’s according to a new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV). The survey of 1,000 executives across 18 industries also finds that cloud computing is a driving force for innovation, ...
Cirba folds expert advisers into infrastructure optimization service
Infrastructure optimization vendor Cirba Inc. has put its Densify virtual infrastructure capacity management software in the cloud and added new advisory services. The new capability, called Expert Insight, provides customers with “interactive insight and guidance on risks and opportunities in their VMware or hybrid cloud environments,” according the company. Advice is integrated into the core user ...
VMware says its virtual desktops are looking more like the real thing
VMware Inc. is boosting its Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product line today with a series of new features that bring the performance and functionality of virtual desktops closer to those of dedicated PCs. VDI is one of those technologies that seems to be constantly on the brink of going mainstream. The concept has a ...
IT financial software maker Apptio tests initial public offering waters
Apptio Inc., a Bellevue, WA-based developer of software that helps executives make informed financial decisions, apparently liked what it saw from the latest round of earnings from newly public tech companies this quarter. It filed to go public today with a goal of raising up $75 million. Apptio lost $41 million on $129 million in ...
Rackspace going private in $4.3B deal
Cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. is going private in a $4.3 billion deal announced this morning. The deal comes after three weeks of speculation that the hosting provider would seek an alternative to the public markets as its early lead in cloud services was eclipsed by giants like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The company will ...
Talend beats Street, but stock gyrates over earnings-per-share confusion
Talend SA beat revenue and earnings forecasts but confusion over its earnings-per-share (EPS) results took the stock on a wild ride in after-hours trading. The Big Data integration software company reported total revenue of $25.4 million for the second quarter, up 38 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share of 31 cents ...
How one company’s software contains shipping industry’s costs – and its own
Some 800 million shipping containers crisscross the globe every year, but only about half make it to their destinations on time. The reason delivery performance is so erratic is because the global shipping industry has grown up in local silos, each with its own set of operating standards and information needs. Shipping companies, terminal operators ...
