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Walmart open-sources its internal PaaS to stick it to Amazon
The competition between the world’s two largest retailers leaked into the public cloud this week after the announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is releasing the source code for the proprietary platform-as-a-service stack powering its e-commerce operations under a free license. The move should make quite a few providers stir in their seats, but it’s only ...
IBM rolls out free data models for Watson’s 500K-strong user base
After managing to attract some 500,000 users to the cloud-based incarnation of Watson within less than a year of hitting general availability by making its core capabilities available at no charge, IBM Corp. is now aiming for the one million mark with a new set of freemium data models to go along. The common theme ...
VMware buys Boxer to help drive its mobile security standard
The record-breaking $67 billion merger between its parent company and Dell Inc. is apparently not interrupting business as usual at VMware Inc., which kicked off the European installment of its annual customer summit this morning with the announcement of a new strategic acquisition. The target of the buy should provide attendees with plenty of material for ...
Wall Street bigwigs chuck $45 million at Bracket Computing for its cloud super-container
A year after raising $85 million from a group of high-profile venture capital firms and technology giants, Bracket Computing Inc. is adding an extra $45 million to its coffers following the completion of another investment led by an equally impressive roster of top banking institutions. The capital will help widen the adoption of its unique ...
Nutanix co-founder’s new startup launches hybrid storage platform for secondary data
A quarter after exiting stealth with $70 million in funding, Cohesity Inc., a startup established by the co-founder of one of the industry’s top converged infrastructure vendors to bring a new definition to the term, is finally going live with its namesake storage platform. The target workload is the secondary data that takes up the ...
A month after funding its top competitor, Salesforce.com invests in SteelBrick
Salesforce.com Inc. is certainly not keeping all of its eggs in one basket. Just over a month after participating in a record $108 million funding round into partner Apttus Inc., the cloud giant has bolstered the coffers of one of its biggest rivals as part of a $48 million investment announced this morning. SteelBrick Inc. ...
SentinelOne raises $25 million to reinvent the enterprise antivirus
The rise in a new-generation of threats like the cyberespionage campaign China-linked hackers are seemingly waging against top U.S. corporations has helped catapult the need to modernize data center security practices to the top of the enterprise agenda. But in focusing on the backend systems that have been the most common target of such attacks, ...
VMware upgrades vRealize for better hybrid cloud DevOps
The hybrid cloud is once again the center theme of VMware Inc.’s annual user conference in Barcelona, where attendees were greeted this morning by a new iteration of its infrastructure automation software that promises to take more complexity out of day-to-day operations. The main highlight is a new blueprinting capability for orchestrating complex environments. The addition ...
What Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC means for the data center
After postponing his retirement not once but twice, Joe Tucci, the 67-year-old EMC Corp. CEO who has been called the last of the enterprise technology world’s old guard, is finally hanging up his spurs. The executive is concluding his long and fruitful career with one final gambit to make or break his legacy: The formation ...
Syncsort sells out to private equity fund
It’s shaping up to be a historic week for enterprise technology. Against the backdrop of Dell Inc. confirming its long-rumored plans to acquire EMC Corp. in one of the biggest mergers that the industry has ever seen, another veteran name in the business is closing a chapter of its own. Syncsort Inc. is selling out to ...