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Lyft’s drivers agree to drop “employee” claims in return for $12.25m pay out
Ride hailing app Lyft Inc. looks to have ended a class-action battle between itself and its drivers yesterday after agreeing to settle out of court for $12.25 million. The settlement, which still needs to be ratified by Judge Vince Chhabria of the California Northern US District Court, would bring to an end a battle which ...
Salesforce updates App Cloud with Heroku Enterprise
Salesforce.com, Inc., made a big announcement yesterday with the launch into general availability of Heroku Enterprise in a new update for its App Cloud. Salesforce first outlined what to expect from Heroku Enterprise at its Dreamforce conference back in September 2015, describing it as the company’s enterprise-grade platform-as-a-service offering. It said that Heroku Enterprise would ...
EMC reports flat Q4 as Dell takeover looms
Following its fourth quarter earnings call yesterday, storage giant EMC Corp. saw it’s shares fall to the lowest level since it announced to the world that it would be acquired by Dell Inc. in a blockbuster $67 billion deal. EMC’s earnings were more or less in line with Wall Street’s expectations, with overall revenues declining ...
SAP strikes alliance with Lenovo to push Hana in China
German enterprise software giant SAP SE is hoping to crack the Chinese market through a tie up with Lenovo Group Ltd. that will see the two firms develop a number of cloud offerings for local firms. The deal is an important one for SAP, as it marks the first serious push of its Hana database ...
Cloud providers urge reforms for “fundamentally broken” FedRAMP
The FedRAMP Fast Forward advocacy group, which represents Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, IBM and several other big technology firms, as well as a number of federal lawmakers and agencies, has hit out at the government’s process for certifying government cloud providers, saying it’s “fundamentally broken”. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification process was designed ...
Juniper steps up SDN efforts with BTI Systems acquisition
Juniper Networks Inc. is to expand its stake in the software-defined networking space by acquiring Massachusetts-based BTI Systems Inc., which specializes in building cloud and metro networking gear. Juniper announced its intentions yesterday via a blog post from Jonathon Davidson, its executive vice president and general manager of development and innovation. Davidson said the “combination ...
Troubled Toshiba set to go all-in on NAND flash
Troubled Toshiba Corp., is set to exit the peripheral chip-making business and possibly even the disk business too, as it struggles to recover from a $1.3 billion accounting scandal that left the firm reeling financially. The report comes by way of Reuters and Japan’s Nikkei news agency, which says that Toshiba is looking to offload ...
EMC set to suffer as cloud storage spending ramps up
The storage infrastructure industry has proven to be more resistant to change than most IT market segments, but it isn’t invulnerable to the disruptive force known as the cloud. Evidence of this comes via a new report from 451 Research Inc., which says spending on public cloud storage is set to double by this time ...
Wi-Next & IBM bring the Industrial Internet to the factory floor
Industrial Internet “edgeware” provider Wi-Next has scored something of a coup by teaming up with IBM to add its analytics capabilities to its industrial quality control and maintenance systems. The Palo Alto, California-based startup said the addition of IBM’s analytics capabilities, some of which are powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), will help consumer product manufacturers ...
U.K. Chief scientist Sir Mark Walport advocates Bitcoin blockchain adoption
The U.K. government’s chief scientist is urging ministers there to consider adopting Bitcoin’s blockchain technology for use in the private and public sectors, saying it could be used as a more reliable way to deliver services than the current, centralized systems they have in place. The Bitcoin blockchain is the best example of how a ...