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Container technology has come a long way in such a short space of time, and has already done much to transform the deployment of applications. But storage has so far been unable to keep pace, because its difficult to scale up with …
Marc Benioff reveals Salesforce also tried to buy LinkedIn
LinkedIn Corp.’s stunning $26.2 billion price tag led to speculation that Microsoft may have been caught up in a bidding war in order to acquire the professional networking site. Now, Salesforce.com, Inc. CEO Marc Benioff has admitted that he did indeed make …
Microsoft enhances its Blockchain-as-a-Service offering with new middleware
Microsoft first launched its Azure Blockchain-as-a-Service option in November of last year. Now, the company is extending the offering with a bunch of new tools that enable developers to build an entire ecosystem of enterprise applications atop of the service. The newly …
Cavium acquires QLogic to beef up its data center portfolio
Data center chip specialist Cavium Inc. has just acquired QLogic Corp. with a view to taking on rivals Intel, Broadcom Corporation and Mellanox Technologies in the storage and networking arena. The billion-dollar plus deal pairs one of the fastest-growing semiconductor manufacturers with …
Samsung reaches for the cloud with Joyent acquisition
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Is ambitiously eying up the cloud with the purchase of Joyent Inc., which has previously raised $125 million in funding from sources like Intel Capital and Peter Thiel. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Joyent Inc. …
Ubuntu bids to eliminate Linux fragmentation by making Snap packages available to all
One of the biggest new features in April’s launch of Ubuntu 16.04 was the introduction of support for a new way to install applications. But the new feature, called Snappy, isn’t just for Ubuntu alone. Now, Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, …
Exabeam touts behavioral analytics to combat ransomware
With the rising incidence of ransomware in the enterprise constantly grabbing the headlines, security firm Exabeam Inc. is trying to do something about it. The company has just introduced a new tool onto the market that tries to spot ransomware before it …
Nokia hopes its new IoT platform will have a big IMPACT
What with everyone agreeing that the Internet of Things (IoT) is likely to explode in the coming years, Nokia Oyj is betting on its networking expertise to help it grab a slice of the action. To that end, the Finnish ex-phone maker …
Chef cooks up a new open-source application automation project
Configuration management platform vendor Chef Software Inc. is turning its attention to application automation with the creation of a new open-source project called Habitat that allows developers to package their applications and run them on a wide variety of infrastructures. What Habitat does is …
Microsoft talks up integration with LinkedIn, but will users care?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went to great lengths to try and justify his decision to shell out $26.2 billion to buy LinkedIn Corp. In a press conference yesterday, and also in a letter to Microsoft staff, Nadella explained that he believes integrating …