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Flexera Software LLC says it wants to help enterprises keep a lid on their cloud spending, acquiring RightScale Inc. for an undisclosed price today to beef up its ability to do that. Flexera is a software asset management provider that sells tools …
New working group aims to bring Kubernetes to IoT edge networks
The Kubernetes project has emerged as the default container orchestration tool in many DevOps scenarios, but teething problems still exist when it comes to “internet of things” deployments in the cloud and at the network edge. With that in mind, the Eclipse …
Mesosphere says Kubernetes adoption is driving hybrid cloud shift
One in four companies now relies on multiple cloud providers, up 50 percent from two years ago. That’s according to Mesosphere Inc.‘s latest survey published Tuesday on the state of the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems. The company, which sells a data center operating system based on …
LinkedIn launches Talent Insights to aid recruitment planning
LinkedIn Corp. is trying to cash in on the data it has gathered from its 575 million worldwide members, 20 million companies and 15 million job listings with a new service for companies to learn more about themselves, their competitors and the …
Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its mobile chip designs, giving them to Intel
Qualcomm Inc.’s long-running legal battle with Apple Inc. has taken another twist, with the chipmaker accusing its rival of intellectual property theft on a grand scale. Qualcomm said in an amended complaint Tuesday that Apple has been stealing its modem chip designs and …
Google and Salesforce integrate their platforms with new data connector
Google LLC stole a march on its public cloud rivals last year when it announced it was teaming up with Salesforce.com Inc. to help customers get more actionable insights from their marketing, sales and service data. One of the major aspects of …
Salesforce debuts Customer 360 service for creating ‘connected experiences’
With a new service to be announced today at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com Inc. is aiming to make it easier for its users to connect its various applications and the data they generate. The service, called Salesforce Customer …
Apple and Salesforce are teaming up on mobile app development
Apple Inc. is teaming up with customer relationship management software company Salesforce.com Inc. in order to improve the number and quality of mobile business applications available on its iPhone and iPad devices. The companies said in an announcement today that their partnership would …
Alibaba Cloud teams up with NeuVector to boost Kubernetes container security
Kubernetes security startup NeuVector Inc.’s container firewall technology has been validated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s Alibaba Cloud, which is now using the system to safeguard containerized workloads running on its public cloud infrastructure. NeuVector provides a security platform for companies that …
Dell said to explore traditional IPO as investors resist VMware stock buyback plan
Dell Technologies Inc.’s messy road to becoming a publicly traded company again has taken yet another twist with the news it’s planning to interview several banks to underwrite a possible initial public offering, according to reports by Reuters and The Wall Street …