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Maintaining employee morale is often much easier said than done in large organizations with upwards of thousands of people on the payroll. One of the startups working to ease the task is Glint Inc., which raised $27 million from a group of …
VMware takes its virtualization software to the cloud, again
VMware Inc. may end up becoming a force to be reckoned with in the infrastructure-as-a-service market after all, just not the way it originally planned. The computer and network virtualization company today debuted a new platform called Cloud Foundation that promises to help organizations …
What you missed in Big Data: Identifying complex patterns
The intensifying competition in the analytics world is driving many startups to seek additional funding or, if that’s not feasible, a buyout. One of the most recent examples is Hadoop hosting provider Altiscale Inc., which was last week revealed to be in …
What you missed in Cloud: A changing competitive landscape
As Amazon and Microsoft consolidate their hold over the public cloud, smaller providers are being forced to change strategies. Rackspace Hosting Inc. became the latest such contender to shift gears last week by accepting a $4.3 billion takeover bid from private equity firm …
Intel unveils new SSDs for data centers, connected devices and PCs
A week after its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco, Intel Corp. is making headlines once again by launching six new SSDs for three different markets. The fastest of the new additions is the enterprise-oriented DCP3520, a 0.2U drive that can handle to …
Report: SAP is buying Hadoop-as-a-service startup Altiscale for over $125M
It appears that more consolidation is on the way for the analytics ecosystem. An anonymous insider has told VentureBeat that SAP SA is in the final steps of closing a $125-million-plus agreement to acquire Altiscale Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup that provides managed data …
IBM follows Amazon and Microsoft to South Korea
IBM has expanded its global cloud network once again by launching a new hosting facility in the South Korean city of Pangyo, which is located a short drive away from Seoul. The data center is part of a collaboration between the vendor and …
Shippable revamps its CI/CD platform to streamline DevOps workflows
Rolling out application updates is set to become much easier for Shippable Inc. users. The startup today launched a new iteration of its continuous deployment platform that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of effort involved in creating code release pipelines, particularly …
Auth0 raises $15M to make building authentication functionality into apps a breeze
Most of the authentication providers out there cater to IT personnel seeking to better regulate how line-of-business users access third party services, but Auth0 Inc. is different. The Washington-based outfit is working to help companies improve the security of their own software, …
Study: Most U.S. IT pros now make over $100K annually
Working in IT has never been more lucrative. According to the newest DevOps Salary Report from infrastructure automation giant Puppet Inc., some 58 percent of enterprise technology practitioners in the U.S. now earn over $100,000 annually. This figure represents a massive 11 …