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Dell may drop $3BN to buy back VMware’s tracking stock
Dell Inc.’s financial whizz kids are working overtime to find a way to tie up the company’s mooted $67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC Corp. without upsetting that company’s shareholders. In the latest feat of financial engineering, the Texas-based firm says it could spend a minimum of $3 billion in order to buy back ...
Red Hat launches dedicated OpenShift PaaS platform
Red Hat Inc. is targeting developers with a new dedicated cloud platform for coders. The new service isn’t exactly cheap, which suggests it’s aimed at squarely at the larger enterprises. The new platform costs $48,000 a year, and provides companies with a high-availability cluster featuring 48TB of bandwidth, five nodes, four application nodes, premium support ...
HPE, Microsoft & Cisco dominate $120bn data center infrastructure market
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Cisco Systems Ltd. and Microsoft remain at the top of the data center infrastructure market after a third quarter that saw total expenditure hit $29 billion, a three percent year-over-year increase. Synergy Research Group, which compiled those numbers, defines “data center infrastructure” as encompassing servers, server OS’s, storage, networking, network security and ...
Dell/EMC deal on track as “go shop” period expires with no further bidders
EMC Corp. moved a step closer to being acquired by Dell Inc. this week, after the storage giant confirmed that the “go shop” period in which other companies are allowed to tender their own bids, has now passed. Dell announced its plans to stump up $67 billion to buy EMC back in October, in a ...
VMware: We’re not interested in Virtustream
VMware Inc. has made it quite clear that it has no intention of pursuing the controversial Virtustream venture alongside its parent company EMC Corp. The virtualization giant made the blunt announcement in a statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late yesterday. “VMware announced that it will not be participating in the formation ...
Dell creates new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) unit
Dell Inc. last week created a new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) business unit that consolidates all of its data center hardware. The new umbrella organization will house the various businesses of Dell’s that build customized and optimized infrastructure for hyperscale companies like Amazon.com, Inc., Google and Facebook, as well as other hardware heavy firms in ...
Microsoft offers its first-ever Linux certification on Azure
Microsoft is not only willing to tolerate Linux on Azure, it’s now decided to go the whole hog and offer Linux certification too. Called the Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure, the new cert trains users to run Linux on the Azure cloud with two separate courses – one on Linux, and one ...
Researchers’ new algorithm allows computers to ‘learn’ like humans
Researchers claim to have come up with a new kind of machine learning algorithm that ‘learns’ in the same way as humans do, allowing computers to ‘think’ more like humans and recognize simple visual patterns. The technique could lead to a dramatic reduction in the time it takes computers to ‘learn’ new concepts, the researchers ...
Machine Learning: Can machines ever be taught to think like us?
Recent moves by companies like IBM and Google to open-source their machine learning algorithms shine the spotlight on the rising prominence of one of the trendiest areas in computer science today. But what exactly is machine learning anyway? How does it differ from the more familiar concept of artificial intelligence (AI)? And can we ever ...
Facebook open-sources its Big Sur machine learning server specs
Facebook has announced it’s contributing its special server designs for machine learning software to the open-source community, which means others will be able to build similar systems. The reference design, dubbed “Big Sur”, is being contributed to the Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP). It uses eight high-performance CPUs packed with up to 300 watts each ...
