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VMware Inc. is building out its portfolio of software-defined wide-area network tools as part of an effort to advance its vision of a “virtual cloud network” that connects and secures applications, data and users across multiple cloud platforms. VMware’s idea of a …
France and the US agree to tax deal on tech giants
France and the U.S. say they’ve reached a deal to put an end to a French technology tax that would have hurt some of America’s biggest companies. The two countries announced the compromise today during a press briefing at the end of the …
Nvidia brings AI workloads to VMware on AWS Cloud
Nvidia Corp. is enabling artificial intelligence and machine learning in the public cloud with the launch of new “accelerated GPU services” on VMware Cloud on AWS. Announced at the VMworld 2019 conference today, the new services make it simple to migrate existing …
With new platform, VMware extends hybrid cloud push
VMware Inc. kicked off the opening day of its VMworld 2019 conference early today with a number of announcements that aim to further its hybrid cloud strategy. As the leading public cloud companies all fight among themselves to grab enterprise workloads that were …
HP CEO Dion Weisler steps down, to be replaced by 30-year vet Enrique Lores
HP Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is quitting his job and will be replaced by Enrique Lores as of Nov. 1, the company said today. Weisler (pictured), who has led HP ever since its split from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. …
Salesforce stock jumps as customer software giant’s earnings top forecast
Salesforce.com Inc. ticked all the boxes today as it reported second-quarter earnings that beat forecasts and provided guidance for the next quarter that surpassed what was expected. The company, which sells software for managing customer relationships, reported earnings before certain costs such …
VMware pays billions to acquire Pivotal Software and Carbon Black
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. put its money where its mouth is today, announcing the acquisitions of software development platform provider Pivotal Software Inc. and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black Inc. VMware said it’s buying Pivotal for $2.7 billion, while Carbon Black will cost …
Protests prompt Alibaba to delay Hong Kong stock exchange listing
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will reportedly postpone an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange because of ongoing political tensions in the territory. Alibaba’s listing was scheduled to take place in late August and could have raised up to …
Pure Storage beats earnings forecasts but lowers guidance
Pure Storage Inc. reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings today, but it slashed revenue guidance for the next three months because of ongoing oversupply issues in the flash storage market. The company, which sells a mix of flash-based data storage hardware and software products, …
Splunk acquires application monitoring firm SignalFX for $1.05B
Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. announced its largest-ever acquisition today as it delivered second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street’s forecasts. Splunk said it’s intending to buy the cloud application monitoring firm SignalFX Inc. for $1.05 billion. About 60% of that …