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Apache Brooklyn graduates from incubation to take on Google’s Kubernetes
The Apache Software Foundation swelled its ranks this morning with the addition of the open-source Brooklyn orchestration framework, which has officially become a top-level project after 18 months in incubation. The graduation is the culmination of a much longer journey that started in 2011 at a little-known U.K.-based automation provider called Cloudsoft Corporation Ltd. that sought a way ...
Cisco shells out $700 million for teleconferencing interoperability provider Acano
The booming London startup scene is marking another high-value exist with Cisco Systems Inc.’s acquisition of local enterprise communications specialist Acano Ltd. for a massive $700 million in cash and stock. The deal will help the networking giant make its teleconferencing solutions more attractive for its largest customers, which often struggle to take full advantage ...
Intel and friends assimilate smart home group in bid for IoT dominance
The Intel Corp.-backed Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is expanding its presence in the smart home with the acquisition of a fellow standards association called the UPnP Forum, which was founded in 1999 to maintain the Universal Plug and Play family of peer-to-peer connectivity protocols. The merger represents the opening shot in the inevitable round of ...
What you missed in Big Data: Smart connectivity
The difficulty of processing unstructured data is most often brought up in the context of the business analysts charged with extracting the insights inside, but it’s an equally big challenge for the developers who produce the software supporting that work. Last week saw Microsoft Corp. come to the rescue with a new service that makes ...
What you missed in Cloud: Integration returns to the spotlight
The public cloud experienced yet another round of consolidation last week after Canadian hosting bigwig CentriLogic, Inc.. acquired a fellow Toronto-based provider called Advanced Knowledge Networks Inc. to grow its local footprint. One of the main factors behind the deal is the growing competitive pressure from the likes of Amazon Inc., which is likewise expanding worldwide ...
IBM reimagines single sign-on for the era of mass data breaches
The newest addition to IBM Corp.’s Bluemix cloud development toolkit is an integration service aimed at reducing the amount of work involved in making applications compatible with Identity Mixer, a homegrown login system that was released under an open-source license earlier this year. The project is touted as a way for organizations to mitigate the ...
Log cruncher Splunk sees revenue surge to $174.4 million in the third quarter
The continued rise in machine-generated data is putting a lot of wind behind the sails of Splunk Inc., which saw revenue jump a staggering 50 percent last quarter to $174.4 million on the back of more than 500 new customer wins across dozens of industries. The earnings handily beat both the company’s own internal guidance ...
Salesforce.com poaches Microsoft’s top CRM exec as relationship strains
Microsoft Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. are no strangers to poaching from one another, but the rivalry has so far been mostly limited to customers. The fight escalated to the board room this week with the revelation that the former vice president of Redmond’s burgeoning customer relationship management business, Bob Stutz, has left to head up the ...
Salesforce.com on course to pass $8BN in annual revenue after steller Q3
Another quarter, another better-than-expected earnings report from Salesforce.com Inc., which managed to push its stock to a record high of $81.5 in after-hours trading yesterday that is still holding strong this morning. The price boost comes as a rare surprise for shareholders, who have grown accustomed to the software-as-a-service giant consistently delivering double-digit sales growth on ...
Google offers to foot migration costs for companies defecting to its cloud platform
The newest incentive Google Inc. is offering for companies to jump aboard its infrastructure-as-a-service platform is a complimentary migration service aimed at smoothing the transfer of existing workloads, a notoriously complicated, and by extension expensive, process. The search giant is outsourcing the logistics to a company called called CloudEndure Inc. through a freshly announced agreement that underscores its growing reliance ...