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Nadella delivers another shocker as Microsoft embraces Red Hat in cloud alliance
Whatever doubts that still remained about Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to open-source software among the developer community until this morning have been banished by its announcement of a broad partnership with Red Hat Inc. to jointly promote their respective cloud offerings. That includes first and foremost the latter’s Linux distribution, the single biggest rival to Windows ...
Pivotal Cloud Foundry gets .NET support as Microsoft ties deepen
The aftershocks from Microsoft Corp.’s decision to release its .NET development framework under an open-source license last year have finally reached Pivotal Inc., which added support for the project to its commercial Cloud Foundry distribution this week. The move expands the appeal of the application platform to millions of additional software engineers in the Windows ...
Authentication unicorn Okta takes its single sign-on service beyond mobile
As business users continue to shift more and more of their work to mobile devices, Okta Inc. is taking an unexpected turn against the flow and extending its popular authentication service to the workstations that have dominated traditional office life. The new support for Windows and Macs is accompanied by the addition of interoperability with applications ...
Former Apple CEO John Sculley’s firm swoops up the last remains of eBay Enterprise
It’s not everyday that news from the customer relationship management segment make such big headlines. Zeta Interactive Inc., the sales automation provider co-founded by former Apple Inc. chief executive John Sculley, has acquired eBay Inc.’s CRM platform in what marks the official conclusion of the online auctioning giant’s exit from the enterprise technology market. The ...
MongoDB 3.2 gets an in-memory storage engine
For all its potential to improve query performance and reduce latency, in-memory processing has received relatively little attention in the database world beyond traditional relational systems like SAP SE’s HANA. But that is about to change. MongoDB Inc. officially joined the fray this morning with the introduction of an in-memory storage engine for its popular ...
Dell reportedly eyeing 2016 IPO for EMC’s Pivotal
As EMC Corp. prepares to move off the stock exchange in order to join up with the privately-held Dell Inc. as part of the record-breaking $67 billion merger they announced last month, its fastest growing division appears to be headed in the opposite direction. Well-placed insiders have leaked word that the companies intend to sell a ...
HP split is now finally official
After nearly 58 years under the same stock symbol, the companies that until last week made up the two core businesses of Hewlett-Packard Co. began trading as separate entities this morning. The split of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. and HP Inc. marks the conclusion of a complicated organizational maneuver that traces its origins long before ...
What you missed in Big Data: A connected edge
The analytics ecosystem shifted its attention to the broadband industry last week after Verizon Communications Inc. unveiled a new managed platform aimed at enabling organizations to process the vast quantities of data generated by connected devices more easily. Making up for the carrier’s late entry into the fray is an impressive feature set that turns ...
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about the network
Replicating the operational efficiency of the world’s top cloud providers became a much more reachable goal for the everyday enterprise last week after Akanda Inc. debuted a new iteration of its OpenStack network orchester offering to simplify the management of private clouds. The features introduced in the release aim to make it a better replacement ...
Details of Verizon’s new low-cost wireless IoT infrastructure
Connecting a smartphone or a tablet to the web is as simple as subscribing to a mobile broadband plan, but many of the newer categories of devices that are hitting the market don’t have the luxury of a built-in baseband chip to interface with carrier networks. That is leading manufacturers toward alternative wireless options in ...