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Dell tried to sell its PC business before buying EMC
One of the more interesting rumors emerging in the wake of yesterday’s massive Dell Inc./EMC Corp. merger is the revelation that Dell apparently tried to offload its PC business in the weeks running up to the deal. According to Re/Code, Dell’s main financial backer and co-owner Silver Lake Partners approached a number of tech firms ...
Wikibon analysts praise Dell-EMC deal but note devil is in the details
Dell Inc’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. will create the world’s largest “privately-controlled, integrated technology company,” the two tech giants said upon announcing the deal this morning. No doubt that’s music to the ears of the bankers financing the deal, but industry analysts are skeptical if the deal will benefit anyone else. For $67 ...
Alibaba’s AliCloud launches second U.S. data center
AliCloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited, has announced the opening of a second data center facility in Silicon Valley, and is inviting potential customers to sign up for its new services when it launches later today. Alibaba has ambitious global expansion plans for AliCloud, having signed up with a number ...
IBM POWERS up new Linux servers for Big Data workloads
Technologies like Apache Spark and Hadoop have already delivered on their promise to help enterprises extract insights from their Big Data. Now, organizations are hungry for advanced IT infrastructure systems to get the most out of these tools, with more choice, greater flexibility and better price-performance than typical x86 servers provide. To that end, IBM ...
Microsoft brings data-blending benefits to Power BI with Alteryx
Microsoft has formed a partnership with data blending and analytics firm Alteryx Inc. to bolster its Power BI applications. Alteryx’s solution is capable of accommodating many different kinds of data via a simple drag-and-drop workflow. The platform is designed to cleanse, transform and then enrich data to prepare it for advanced predictive, spatial and statistical ...
Dell negotiating $40 billion in loans to acquire EMC & VMware
Yet more details have emerged regarding Dell Inc.’s possible takeover of EMC Corp. The latest leak from “people with knowledge of the matter” says Dell has approached a number of banks to try and put together the $40 billion it would need to finance a complete takeover of EMC. Bloomberg says Dell is preparing to ...
Dell looking to buy part of EMC’s storage business, not the entire company
Further details have emerged about Dell Inc.’s reported bid to takeover EMC Corp., with Re/Code claiming the former is only offering to buy part of the latter’s data storage business, rather than the entire company lock, stock and barrel. That differs from The Wall Street Journal‘s original report, which suggested that Dell was trying to ...
AWS re:Invent 2015 news roundup | #reinvent
Amazon Web Services’ Senior Vice President Andy Jassy took to the stage at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas yesterday to announce a whole raft of new services during his keynote. In just two hours, AWS lifted the lid on Snowball, QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Inspector, a new Database Migration Service, the Schema Conversion Tool, Config Rules ...
Couchbase Server 4.0 opens the door to SQL on NoSQL
Couchbase Inc. yesterday released version 4.0 of its Couchbase Server NoSQL database, introducing a new SQL-compatible query language that expands the potential use cases of the platform and, according to the company, gives it the edge over rival databases offered by companies like MongoDB Inc. The NoSQL space is hot right now, with the technology’s ...
Sony’s semiconductor business to go it alone in organizational reshuffle
Sony Corp. is about to undergo a bit of an organizational reshuffle with the announcement that it’s to spin off its semiconductor business and reshape its Devices division. In about six months time, Sony Semiconductor Solutions will split from the rest of the company to begin life as its own separate business unit, controlling manufacturing, ...