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Taking HPE private could be a blessing – or a disaster
Recent reports indicate the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. may be talking to private equity groups about selling its software business or even, if one report is to be believed, the entire company. Although the latter seems a remote possibility, it might just be the right one for HPE, according to several private equity experts and companies ...
VMware adds low-cost entry to mobile device management line
VMware Inc. is introducing a lightweight version of its enterprise mobile device management (MDM) cloud suite that’s designed to get basic management, security and installation functionality up and running in just a few minutes through the use of a series of repeatable templates. AirWatch Express, which formally launches today, is targeted at small and midsize ...
Particle courts enterprise IoT developers with cloud platform
Internet-of-things (IoT) development platform Particle Industries Inc. is going after the enterprise with a cloud IoT platform that large companies can use to quickly build IoT products in what the company claims is as little as six months. Particle, which changed its name from Spark Labs Inc. last year, said enterprise developers will be able ...
Talend exec says IPO sets stage for next round of growth
Now that it’s a public company, Talend SA (Nasdaq: TLND) will focus on strengthening its balance sheet, filling in gaps in its portfolio through acquisitions and doubling down on what the company believes will be an explosive market for data integration software, according to the company’s chief marketing officer. Just hours after joining other talent ...
AWS blows past $10B annual run rate as Amazon crushes estimates
Growth of Amazon Web Services revenue slowed in the second quarter, but still grew an impressive 58 percent, indicating that more vigorous competition has failed to put a dent in Amazon’s dominance of the infrastructure-as-a-service market. AWS pulled in $2.88 billion in revenue in the quarter, putting it on an $11.5 billion annual run rate, ...
Birst fine-tunes collaborative BI platform for supply chain use
Birst Inc. is extending its collaborative business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform outside the firewall with a new set of capabilities aimed at supply chain optimization. The extensions to Birst’s Networked BI platform are intended to let players in the supply chain adjust to changes in supply and demand more quickly, better understand resource allocations ...
Cisco midyear security report serves up mostly bad news
Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2016 Midyear Cybersecurity Report, which was released today, paints an alarming picture of the state of security defenses, even as attacks proliferate and get more sophisticated and ruthless. The report, which is based upon data gathered from Cisco’s global network, depicts a mish-mash of outdated and unpatched software offering up tempting targets to ...
Gridstore becomes HyperGrid, touts flexible cloud migration
Get ready for another “as-a-service.” Hyper-converged systems startup Gridstore Inc. said it has merged with application migration specialist DCHQ Inc. to form a new company called HyperGrid Inc. that plans to deliver what it calls the first hyper-converged infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Gridstore raised more than $44 million, including a $19 million funding round in January, for ...
Will it integrate? Blendtec taps connectors for data mash-up
“Will it blend? That is the question.” Those words by Blendtec Inc. founder Tom Dickson (above) have kicked off each of the 146 (and counting) videos in the high-end blender maker’s phenomenally successful “Will It Blend?” video series. Each segment features Dickson pulverizing items ranging from golf balls to smart phones with the company’s flagship product. ...
3-D printing’s ‘Pied Piper’ foresees innovation surge as patents expire
The New York Times once described Duann Scott (@Duanns, below right) as “a Pied Piper for on-demand 3-D printing,” an analogy that pretty well sums up what Scott has been doing since he relocated to New York from his native Australia six years ago. In his prior role as a designer evangelist at Shapeways Inc., ...
