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Cisco Buys Networking Firm Meraki for $1.2B Acquisition
Cisco’s been on a shopping spree lately as the networking space aggressively takes on a rapidly transitioning demand for mobile connectivity. The industry leader acquired privately-held networking firm Meraki for $1.2 billion in cash, according to a release that went out this morning. The San Francisco-based startup sells switches, enterprise wifi, and management services to ...
EMC Gets Aggressive with Cloud Services Portfolio, Bundles with More Partners
Capgemini and EMC are offering government agencies a fully managed technological offering that couples the storage vendor’s technology with Capgemini’s outsourcing services. The two firms announced the solution at EMC’s Momentum conference last week. The joint venture, which goes by the name of Case-as-a-Service, is based on EMC’s Documentum, Captiva and Document Sciences software. It ...
CSC Lands Lucrative Flight Simulator Deal with U.S. Army
The U.S. Army has awarded CSC with a firm, fixed price contract valued at up to $34 million, counting in the 6-month base period and ten one-year options. Under the agreement, the Virginia-based consultancy will upgrade the Reconfigurable Collective Training Devices (RCTD) so that it can deliver a more accurate simulation of the OH-58D Block ...
DDN Invests $100M in Tomorrow’s Supercomputers
DataDirect Networks is convinced that current technology will not be able to keep up with Moore’s law in the coming years, so it set out to develop its own. The company is putting aside $100 million for the development of storage and software capable of supporting Exascale machines – an ambitious undertaking to say the ...
Easing the Big Data Transition,Capgemini Bets On HP Vertica
Capgemini and HP Vertica have entered into an alliance to help enterprises modernize their data infrastructure through a combination of services and software. The two firms promise to reduce analytical process from “hours to minutes, and minutes to seconds.” “Organizations struggle with turning massive amounts of structured, semistructured and unstructured data into business insights, cost ...
PwC Bolsters IT Services Business with Ray Group Buy
PwC’s U.S. division snatched up Ray Group International, a consultancy that specializes in providing technology services to the public sector. Terms of the deal, announced here, were not disclosed. Ray Group International’s new homepage states that the company maintains relations in “every cabinet agency,” including the DoD in areas. The firm offers advice on standard ...
SAP Hail Storm Unveils 5-Pillar Strategy for Windows 8, Analytics and More
SAP is organizing its BI strategy around the five trends that are shaping IT today: mobile, cloud, analytics, social media, and self-service technologies. The company addressed four of these five subjects with a hail of product announcements in the past couple of days. Firstly, the business software maker launched six applications for Windows 8 devices. ...
Dell’s Fresh Focus on Services, Not PCs, Is Paying Off
Dell is making $8 billion in services every year, according to its founder and CEO. In an interview this week Michael Dell credited company’s one percent share of the global enterprise services market, as well as $1.5 billion in annual software sales, to a series of successful acquisitions in recent years. Dell mentions Force10, Compellent ...
HP’s New Server Crunches Data Like No Other
Hewlett-Packard just unveiled the HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server, a new box architected for big data. The SL4500 delivers 240 terabytes in a single 4.3u chassis, which amounts to 2.16 petabytes of storage in a standard 42u rack that holds nine servers. The machine is available in a wide variety of configurations so that customers ...
Cisco Soothes the Sting of Nicira-VMware Play with Cloupia Buy for $125M
Cisco just bought out Cloupia for $125 million, a startup that specializes in making software that automates hybrid IT infrastructure. This includes environments where physical and virtual servers run side by side, as well as private clouds that make use of public services such as AWS. ISI analyst Brian Marshall says that Cloupia employs 50 ...