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Carbonite snaps up Seagate’s EVault backup service for $14M
Cloud-based backup provider Carbonite Inc. has splashed out $14 million in cash to take Seagate Technology Plc’s Evault cloud backup service off its hands, the companies announced yesterday. Carbonite, which is named after the mysterious substance in which Star War’s flyer Hans Solo was frozen by the bounty hunter Boba Fett, specializes in backup and ...
Cloud Foundry brings vendors into line with new PaaS certification
The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF), which bills itself as the industry standard Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), yesterday unveiled a new certification standard created to assure IT organizations of compatibility between multiple implementations of the open-source Cloud Foundry PaaS. In what is no small feat, some of the biggest PaaS vendors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Pivotal Software Inc., ...
Oracle bigs up cloud potential as on-premise revenues slide again
Oracle saw its total revenues fall once again as it posted its fiscal 2016 Q2 earnings results, but the database giant can take encouragement from substantial growth in its cloud business that helped the company to beat out Wall Street analyst’s expectations. The Redwood City, California-based giant posted total revenues of $8.9 billion for the ...
Sophos acquires SurfRight to beef up synchronized security strategy
U.K.-based network and endpoint security outfit Sophos Group plc is moving into the advanced threat prevention realm with the $31.8 million all-cash acquisition of SurfRight, the Dutch-based maker of the popular “HitManPro” malware scanning and removal tools. Sophos says the plan is to integrate SurfRight’s signature-less endpoint threat detection and response technology into its own line ...
Dell may drop $3BN to buy back VMware’s tracking stock
Dell Inc.’s financial whizz kids are working overtime to find a way to tie up the company’s mooted $67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp. without upsetting that company’s shareholders. In the latest feat of financial engineering, the Texas-based firm says it could spend a minimum of $3 billion in order to buy back ...
Red Hat launches dedicated OpenShift PaaS platform
Red Hat Inc. is targeting developers with a new dedicated cloud platform for coders. The new service isn’t exactly cheap, which suggests it’s aimed at squarely at the larger enterprises. The new platform costs $48,000 a year, and provides companies with a high-availability cluster featuring 48TB of bandwidth, five nodes, four application nodes, premium support ...
HPE, Microsoft & Cisco dominate $120bn data center infrastructure market
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Cisco Systems Ltd. and Microsoft remain at the top of the data center infrastructure market after a third quarter that saw total expenditure hit $29 billion, a three percent year-over-year increase. Synergy Research Group, which compiled those numbers, defines “data center infrastructure” as encompassing servers, server OS’s, storage, networking, network security and ...
Dell/EMC deal on track as “go shop” period expires with no further bidders
EMC Corp. moved a step closer to being acquired by Dell Inc. this week, after the storage giant confirmed that the “go shop” period in which other companies are allowed to tender their own bids, has now passed. Dell announced its plans to stump up $67 billion to buy EMC back in October, in a ...
VMware: We’re not interested in Virtustream
VMware Inc. has made it quite clear that it has no intention of pursuing the controversial Virtustream venture alongside its parent company EMC Corp. The virtualization giant made the blunt announcement in a statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late yesterday. “VMware announced that it will not be participating in the formation ...
Dell creates new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) unit
Dell Inc. last week created a new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) business unit that consolidates all of its data center hardware. The new umbrella organization will house the various businesses of Dell’s that build customized and optimized infrastructure for hyperscale companies like Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Facebook, as well as other hardware heavy firms in ...