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Skills shortage stalls OpenStack adoption
OpenStack’s potential in the enterprise is being held back by an acute skills shortage, causing numerous organizations to fail in their efforts at deploying the open-source cloud software stack, according to a new survey. Linux vendor SUSE LLC’s survey on OpenStack adoption trends found that more than eighty percent of enterprises are either planning to, ...
China’s Meituan-Dianping scores $3bn in tech’s biggest-ever funding round
A Chinese firm that hawks movie tickets and restaurant bookings among other things has just become the recipient of what it claims is the single largest non-IPO funding round ever raised in the tech industry. Meituan-Dianping, which The Wall Street Journal describes as an online-to-offline (O2O) provider whose products are somewhat similar to the group-buying ...
Kirill Tatarinov snags Citrix CEO role as activist investor pressure mounts
Citrix Systems, Inc. has landed itself a new CEO and president in the shape of ex-Microsoft executive Kirill Tatarinov. Tatarinov held a variety of positions during his eight year tenure at Microsoft, acting as its president and executive vice president, as well as holding down a role as corporate vice president of its Business Solutions ...
Hortonworks shares plunge 22% on news of secondary IPO
Bad vibes among shareholders of Hortonworks Inc. resulted in the company’s share price collapsing 22 percent yesterday. The stock fell following an announcement that that company is looking to raise $100 million in a secondary share offering, often referred to as a “secondary IPO”. Hortonworks is one of the three major Hadoop vendors, alongside Cloudera ...
Microsoft announces a great cloud giveaway: $1 billion up for grabs
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella is in a somewhat generous mood, and has decided to donate his company’s expertise in cloud computing to the “public good” by giving away $1 billion worth of cloud services to nonprofits over the next three years. Altogether, Microsoft wants to support around 70,000 nonprofit organizations using its cloud product, including ...
IBM beats Wall St. estimates but investors remain unimpressed
IBM took another battering from investors even as it unexpectedly beat analysts’ estimates in its fourth quarter earnings. Although IBM execs were predictably upbeat over the performance, investors seemed to disagree as Big Blue’s shares slumped by around 3.5 percent in after-hours trading. The most important numbers are these: $22.06 billion in revenues, compared to ...
SnapShot snaps up ex-Googler to lead a revolution in hotel data analytics
Ex-Googler Dr. Stefan Tweraser is hoping to inject some Silicon Valley-style efficiency into his new employer SnapShot GmbH, as the Austrian startup readies itself to revolutionize the hospitality industry with its new Big Data analytics services. Tweraser’s appointment as SnapShot’s new CEO comes at a time when the startup is preparing for the eagerly anticipated ...
Worldwide IT spend fell by six percent in 2015
Enterprises tightened up the purse strings over the last year, leading to an almost six percent decrease in the amount of IT spending worldwide, said Gartner Inc. in a new report. That amounts to the largest year-over-year decrease in IT spending that Gartner has ever seen, and although the analyst firm expects things to pick ...
Gartner calls out cloud vendors for cooking the books
Gartner Inc. has called out supposed “cloud vendors” for doing what everyone has known for years – creatively cooking the books to inflate their cloud-associated revenues. Gartner made its accusations in a paper called Vendor Cloud Revenue Claims — Should Enterprises Care? where it makes the case that enterprises really should care about vendor cloud revenue ...
Microsoft decrees that new PCs will ONLY be able to run Windows 10
Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to push the world onto Windows 10 by revising its support policy in a way that means newly purchased PCs will no longer support older editions of its operating system. The new rules will mean that anyone who buys a PC powered by one of Intel’s, Advanced Micro Devices ...
